Questions tagged [teaching]
For questions about the knowledge of music theory and musical practice and the methods by which they are to be taught.
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How is (male) falsetto taught?
I've encountered men and boys who are seemingly unable to sing in falsetto. They sing as high as their chest voice will allow, straining at the top, but are unable to slip into falsetto.
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Creative Ideas for Teaching Musical Ornaments to Kids [closed]
I am a music teacher planning to introduce the concept of musical ornaments to a group of young children. I want to make this educational experience engaging and fun for them, and I'm seeking creative ...
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What is taught in an atonal counterpoint course?
One of the main strengths of studying tonal and/or modal (pre-tonal) counterpoint is understanding dissonance treatment within those idioms. Additionally, one learns how to navigate some of the ...
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How to help students remember Half vs. Whole rests
The symbols for the half rest and whole rest are pretty much the same and in the literature my students play we rarely encounter them.
Is there a good, memorable way to describe which is which to ...
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Clever mnemonics for clarinet pinkies
I teach a beginner band program. I'm a brass player myself, although I can play most of the band instruments with a fair degree of success. When beginner clarinet players start to learn B/C/C#, or ...
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For a 10 year old learning piano what does music pedagogy says about using metronome?
I am teaching piano to a 10 year old using the Suzuki 1 book. This child has no problem maintaining tempo when singing. Is it better for the child to use metronome to keep the tempo during ...
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Piano pedagogy: lots of finger numbers? Best practice?
I have a question about piano teaching / learning.
I am a beginner, older student, working through grade 1 ABRSM piano. I know theory (key sigs, note letters, chords, intervals) from rhythm guitar ...
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How to teach a Piano Student with Hand Mobility Issues
I have recently started teaching piano to a student. They had been learning with another instructor and have a few years of experience.
The students parent let me know in advance that they have ...
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Games for the young piano student?
I've been teaching violin and piano to beginners for a couple years now, and I'm starting to notice that piano tends to be a little less fun for my younger students. In violin I have several fun and ...
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Is there a recorder-analog for the flute?
I have used soprano baroque recorders for students aged 8-10 as a "pre-band" instrument. I find that most students enjoy practicing note-reading, and the average student is able to progress ...
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Is a teacher necessary?
Many times in answers, (including mine), we exhort the OP to 'get a teacher'. I've got to wondering if that's actually the case. I've played with hundreds of musos - mainly the guitarists - who have ...
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What do "breathy voice" and "full voice" mean?
In vocal pedagogy some people talk about "breathy voice". What does this term refer to and how is it different from "full voice"?
I should add that breathy is also used for the ...
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How do "dotted-crotchet = one beat" teachers address "irregular compound" meters (e.g., 5/8)?
"Ordinary" Compound Meter
I was taught that 6/8 time, for example, meant "six beats in a measure; the eighth note (quaver) gets one beat." Similarly, 9/8 would be "nine beats ...
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Sounds used by music instructors to induce pauses in people playing or singing
I would like to know whether it is common for music teacher instructors, and, perhaps, also with musical orchestra directors, but perhaps not, to introduce special sounds, in special ways, by means of ...
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Are there different schools of piano pedagogy and if so, what are they called?
People talk about different kinds of schools of pedagogy that exists today but I don't know if I have ever heard about different schools of piano pedagogy.
Are there different schools of piano ...
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Do you find it easier nowadays to practice and learn music that what it used to be years ago? [closed]
Judging from my own experience, I believe that nowadays is much easier to find good teachers and material to practice and become really good.
For example, I am middle aged and was a fan of Queensryche ...
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Why don’t piano teachers teach the chord method of playing to young children and adults?
I have been playing piano since I was 10 and now I am 43. I have never really been good at sight reading sheet music. I have recently been researching alternative methods of learning songs fast as ...
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Teaching theory online with real time music notation
We're about to give online music theory lessons to primary school children and would like advice on notation software to use in the lessons to give real time examples - at the moment we're considering ...
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What letters are used for guitar chords in Ukraine?
There are Ukrainian refugees in my town and I may have the opportunity to give some guitar or ukulele lessons. Language is going to be a bit of a problem but I expect music to transcend that.
If I ...
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Best Rigorous Introduction to Music Theory? [closed]
I've been pretty intensively playing classical and jazz trumpet (albeit as a hobbyist) for about 13 years, and I've been wanting to get into composition. I haven't had too much training in music ...
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Dyslexia and sheet music
I was quite dyslexic as a child and struggled through elementary school where reading was concerned. However my math was pretty good so I had no trouble grasping rhythms and identifying scales as ...
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How can you teach a child the names of the notes on each key on a keyboard?
My 7 yr old daughter has been given a Yamaha PSR-60. She starts Piano lessons in a few months, but in the meantime would like to understand a bit more about the keyboard.
How can we tell what the ...
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Does movable do modulate with the music or stay with the initial key?
When using the movable do system in a piece that modulates, is the standard practice to stay with the initial key (i.e., a "locally fixed" do) or to modulate the solfege to match the new key?...
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Should i learn double bass with an online teacher?
I want to learn double bass but i live in a country that there is no bass teachers at all, so i will have to learn online, is that feasible and effective? because if i want to learn double bass that ...
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What is taught in lessons using the CVT method?
I'm interested in doing some vocal lessons with a Complete Vocal Technique (CVT) coach. I've read around the concept and seen a few exercises, even had a taster session but what if one was taking ...
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Is/Are there standard approaches to teaching/learning fugal writing?
I am intimidated by the idea of writing fugues.
...but I would like to do it. I have in mind the style exemplified by Bach.
In a collegiate "Counterpoint" class (or book, or private ...
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Can I teach other saxophone types?
I have been playing tenor for 3 years now. I am very experienced, and have given lessons to new tenors for a while. However, a new alto asked if I could teach them. I told them I could, because even ...
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Musical Training to help with taking up Cello in the fall
My daughter is 8 and has been taking private piano lessons for around 3 months now but will take a break from lessons over the summer. In the fall (when school starts back up) she will be taking cello ...
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What's the best solution (audio quality) to giving online music classes [closed]
Because of COVID-19, I'm giving piano classes via Internet to my students. Problem is:
When my student plays soft passages (in piano or pianissimo), audio either rises in volume or is clipped entirely....
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What can I do about a parent who is discouraging their child from learning violin, a child who really wants to learn, so that the child will drop out
The child really wants to learn but the parent isn't interested and employs tactics such as forgetting the instrument, keeps them busy all the time so there's no time to practice and has arranged ...
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How can we effectively teach schoolchildren theory?
Background Reading: I thought it was worth extending the recent discussion about music theory to the topic of teaching theory.
I think our default approach to teaching theory is sometimes too ...
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Places where you can teach music theory online? [closed]
I'm considering taking up teaching again. It has been two years since I last taught, but I have come to realise I actually still miss it. Is there places where you can do it online, maybe to ...
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Is it possible to learn how to sing properly without a teacher?
Can you learn to sing with correct technique only using videos and online courses - without feedback from a teacher that guides you? How much of a difference would it make?
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Should sight-reading be emphasized less for piano instruction with new developments in technology [closed]
I realize this post may be controversial. I've been playing for about eleven years. I'm somewhere at the amateur/intermediate level. When I started sheet music was the only medium available. Since ...
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Expectations from a violin teacher towards an adult learner
I am an adult student learning the violin. I have have been playing for slightly more than a year. I can play most of the pieces in Suzuki book 1 now and have progressed up to book 2. I do not know if ...
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What are the primary historical piano training methods, and what are their defining characteristics?
There are various historically important or well-known piano training methods or schools (“schools of thought” as opposed to institutions, which are not the focus here):
• The Leschetizky method
• The ...
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Do you need a specific practice schedule to improve? [closed]
I have played music for most of my life and tried to learn everything that I either wanted to learn or felt that I needed to learn to progress. I have also never seen the point of having 30 minutes ...
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Can you request songs to learn from piano teacher
My piano teacher mostly teaches me pieces in the genre of classical/children e.g. the last piece she taught me was Entrance of the Gladiators. I'm getting bored of these songs and I want to request ...
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Why is Schenker so influential in US academia? Is it the same elsewhere?
Adam Neely's recent video on race and music theory focuses in part on the views of Schenker and the limits and biases of his system of analysis. It seems that Schenker has had a very strong influence ...
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Research on effective frequency and duration of practice for improvement?
I've been playing piano for a long time now, did my undergrad in music and just finished my Teacher's Ed. program.
As someone who's suffered an overuse injury (permanent nerve damage) from practicing ...
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Approach to teaching a conducting class virtually
This question is more vague than I would prefer, but I am really struggling with this issue, so any help would be appreciated.
So, due to COVID, the school where I teach has gone virtual for the first ...
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What is the best way to teach a friend to sing? (Improving hearing ability)
In the past, I thought that singing (I mean hearing the notes and being able to produce the same note) was given at birth and couldn't be improved. But in a year, a friend of mine improved himself so ...
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Safety of exercises in Alan Greene: "How to Sing and Speak Properly" book
I have years of experience singing incorrectly on a hobbyist level. My voice has a lot of tension and I have very little concept of what makes up "good technique". I want to improve my singing tone ...
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looking for a good platform from which to teach one-on-one music lessons, with no latency or signal cancellation
Just for 2 people, with an occasional "let's play this together 1,2,3,4...", and to be able to play in real time, with reasonable (not great) fidelity
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How can I get back into piano after a 5 year break? (Story)
I hope you don't mind a story. If you just want to answer the question, by all means.
The Story
9th Grade was probably the most interesting time of my life. Prior to that, like most Asian kids, I ...
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Should fingerboard tapes be used for beginner violinists ?
Some teachers use them and some don't. I've heard that they can become a crutch and cause delayed ear training development, but others say they are necessary at the beginning.
Can they really cause ...
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Can animated visualizations help to understand music better? [closed]
There are lots of animated visualizations (of a specific kind) of performed music around that I would like to understand better:
How accurate are they?
Do they help to understand music better? If so:...
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What is the practical importance of grasping the concept of tonality? More specially for piano players?
Let me explain the context of this question: my 12 year old niece is learning to play the piano and has to study musical theory; she recently encountered the notion of tonality and can't manage to ...
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why would a singing teacher never ask a person to do this? [closed]
The teacher I went to last spring was a good teacher in many ways but I am actually not that happy with certain things she did or did not do.
In a previous thread I asked about singing without ...
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How to practice simple syncopation?
I am playing a violin duet with a friend, and he has a really hard time playing syncopated notes correctly.
E.g. here in the first part (top staff) he is playing the syncopated A, G, F as 16-th ...
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