Keep students engaged at home and make practice fun!
How can we keep students engaged when they leave our classes and help make their music practice fun?
By Cynthia Kinnunen
You’re working harder than ever to bring learning to your students, whether in physical classrooms or...
Create a welcoming and engaging space in your virtual classroom
As with in-person classes, helping our students feel welcome and confident in the virtual space is just as important.
By Cynthia Kinnunen
By now, most of us are figuring out how to make teaching online work for us in some way....
Teaching complex chords on the ukulele
Once students get a taste of new chord flavours, they will be wanting more!
By Vinícius Vivas
Have you wondered about how to play and teach complex jazz chords on the ukulele? Or how to make simple chords sound even better?
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Engaging students with composition
We are always looking for new ideas to engage our students and what better way than to bring their own creativity into the mix?
by Cynthia Kinnunen
Last month, music educator Angela Dwyer gave us some great ideas about introducing...
Ukulele Improv 101
Note: This post is being shared during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and makes reference to this.
These are formidable times for music educators. Many of the teaching strategies, motivational techniques and rules of engagement for...
Working cooperatively to develop tone
These days, many adult players are looking for more. Sometimes they don’t know what ‘more’ is, but they know they want it. I believe that a place to start is helping students to identify what to listen for and as a...
Ergonomics and a mid-winter stretch
Just as athletes have a stretching and warm-up routine, and specific ways that they learn to hold their bodies to avoid injury, so should we consider these things for ourselves as we engage in music making!
by Cynthia Kinnunen
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How To Start A Song Right!
One thing is for sure: the hardest part of doing anything is getting started. Music is no different.
By James Hill
How many times have you had trouble getting a song started? The more players there are, the more...
Intervalactic, Auditory… Teaching Intervals by Ear
Why is it so important to teach intervals and how can we do it? Cynthia Kinnunen gives us some ideas to engage our students.
By Cynthia Kinnunen
Intervals are building blocks of music. We create music either by harmonizing two or more notes...
The Beat on Teaching Rhythm
How can we incorporate one of the most important elements of music into our classes? Cheryl Reid gives us the beat on teaching rhythm.
By Cheryl Reid
Our main goal as music instructors is to teach musicianship, so every single exercise we...
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