The student journey From confusion to musical clarity
Students generally start learning music with a combination of excitement and trepidation. They have an emotional relationship with music, but come up against abstract…
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Teaching Music as a Skill, Not as Knowledge
An often-erroneous assumption within music education is that learning is the acquisition of information. They read about it, they see demos, and they know the…
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The Structure of Confident Musical Learning
A vast majority of students learning music come with the excitement but without a structure, jumping from theme to theme driven by interest or…
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Why Learning Music Is More Important Than Picking Out a Melody
Most people start learning how to make music by amassing small pieces: scale shapes, chord names, discrete rules that promise something like understanding and…
