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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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 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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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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Teaching a student to match pitch
I'm a piano teacher and I currently have a student that is taking voice lessons from another teacher. Our lessons involve me accompanying her and discussing interpretation and style. She has some ...
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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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Becoming a good guitar teacher
I am thinking of starting guitar teaching and, of course, I am aiming to become a good guitar teacher. I don't think it will happen in the near future, because I don't have enough skill level yet, but ...
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Piano scales: Why bother with hands together?
During my first ten years studying classical piano, the scales that I played were hands together, parallel. But the only literature that actually has scales in both hands, for more than one bar per ...
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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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Teaching young kids (7-9) basic piano and music fundemetals.
I've been teaching a 9 year old kid piano for about 10 months and it has been going pretty well, but recently I was asked to teach a few more kids (one as young as 6) to play piano. Teaching the 9 ...
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Why don't key signatures indicate the tonic?
It's always seemed strange to me that key signatures don't indicate the tonic. I feel this has two main drawbacks:
Beginners (and more advanced students, it has to be said!) often find it difficult ...
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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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How to make people interested in what we're teaching?
I've seen so many music teachers just give theory lessons and then have the student practice the ideas on their instrument. I think – with a lot of people want to study music like guitars, pianos ...
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Is there another name for involature?
This answer...
https://music.stackexchange.com/a/45206/23919
...caught my attention, because while I know about partimenti and solfeggi, I hadn't heard of involature.
I looked for some at IMSLP, ...
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Standard Jazz teaching repertoire
I am a classically trained pianist with many years of teaching experience in the classical repertoire. I would like to expand my horizons and become more knowledgeable about jazz and pop piano music ...
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"It takes dedicated PARENTS to produce a good drummer" -- Tell me more
Motivated by https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/38814/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-a-good-drummer?noredirect=1#comment55597_38814, which had a comment that stated:
It takes dedicated PARENTS to ...
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