If you don’t watch any other post in this lecture series, watch this one. This is my favorite point and the point that I believe can make the biggest difference in your studio.
In this video, I talk about relating music theory to composition. Here’s how an extra 60 seconds of instruction can make a huge difference in your students’ motivation, retention of concepts, understanding, and excitement! Please excuse the extra “um”s in the first minute! 🙂
As always, if you have comments or additional insights, please feel free to leave them!
If you need to review:
Part 1 – Composition for Kids: Why Teach Composition
Part 2a – Composition for Kids: Composers as Students
Part 2b – Composition for Kids: How Are We Discouraging Creativity & Composition?
Part 2c – Composition for Kids: How to Encourage Creativity and Composition
Part 2d – Composition for Kids: How to Encourage Creativity and Composition cont.
Part 2e – Composition for Kids: How to Encourage Creativity and Composition cont.
Part 3 – Relating Theory to Composition
Part 4 – Developing the Ear
Part 5 – What to do with the Budding Composer
Wonderful ideas in this video. The concept is endless when applying it to composition and practice techniques. Great ideas for teaching students but also for the pro who wants to improve his/her own skills (compose your own etude on a difficult passage.) Thanks for these videos!
Is there still a workshop availble for teaching composition?
Hi Stephanie,
We don’t have a workshop like that right now, but it is in the queue of ideas that we may develop in the future. We’ll keep you posted in the newsletter! These Composition for Kids workshop videos that you have been watching are from a while ago, so it’s definitely like taking a course. I’d encourage you to watch all of them and you should have a number of ideas to help. Thanks for asking!