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What even is music?
The more I work as a musician in the modern world, the more I begin to ponder this question as an educator. What is music? What is this thing that we teach?
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Take a moment
Take a moment. How can you truly be an anti-racist music educator? Nate Holder knows more about it than me! Read him today instead.
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Music isn’t perfect
Perfectionism is the well-worn path of a lot of musicians. But it is not what we should be passing on to our students.
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All Cows Eat Grass
Most of you will know EXACTLY what I am referencing here. If you were trained as a musician in the last 30 years, then this is most likely how you learned to read music. If you are a musician, trained recently, and don’t know what I’m talking about, then I have to say that I…
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To teach or to play?
So you want to include games in your music lessons, but don’t know where to start? I’m certain that all music teachers have felt the same at some point or another. The biggest worry that we all have is that we play games that are not connected to learning, that we are wasting precious minutes…
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Which came first: the rhythm or the melody?
Ah, the age-old question. The first time I realised that this was a matter of contention was when I was on a student placement (as a classroom teacher, not a music teacher). The music teacher was talking about how she never introduced pitch until Grade 3 (age 8), because children simply didn’t understand it before…
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What’s in a Resource?
Our shop has launched! And now that it has, we decided that it was time to explain how the resources at the music educator work. The aim of all music resources sold on this website is to make music teachers jobs easier, every day. With that in mind, let’s explore exactly how we are doing…
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Why I Discourage Perfect Pitch
I’ll never forget the look that I shared with a friend of mine after one of our first University music tests. It wasn’t even a high stakes situation. It was simply a pre-assessment to determine what class we should join for our aural studies. As you learn really quickly in a music degree, it’s not…
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C or Do?
The title of this certainly is challenging to read. I can assure you that I do not mean ‘see or do’. The question I am asking is whether or not we call a note ‘C’ or ‘Do’, or anything else for that matter. This raises so many questions for people. We live in a world…
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Look to the experts
As an educator in any field, it is certainly tempting to make sure you can do everything. But is that really in your students’ best interest?
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