This method is a natural extension of being a folk music buff as the learning material is drawn, in the early years at least, from folksong. When I was about 15, my singing teacher at the time introduced me to a method of writing called tonic solfa (explained in this video . I had only [...]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wFsHOGJMac?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Sing Me The Songs That Say I live You Dink’s Song by the McGarrigle family and co. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUthQA9-IjU?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] Judy Collins song for her mother, In The Twilight, one of the most beautiful, disturbing songs I ever heard. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
one of my many inspirations, Judy Collins singing her own song in the late 80’s.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUh-ggBfzI?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] One of the many pieces of music on my iPod. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A great site to find out how blind people are using mac Computers.
I sent it on holiday to fix the mail issues and now it’s back! Works a treat, just like it did before it stopped. Reckon a certain person changed some settings and it malfunctioned. But this post is not about why that happened. I want to tell you why I love my Mac! I really [...]
In this final posting on music education I will be talking about the way I teach music. Techniques I have seen inspire young people and that sometimes can work. My philosophy has pieces of all the methods and a bit of Rudolpf Steiner. But it has worked for me. As Suzuki said we must create [...]
Emile Jacques Dalcroze was a swiss music teacher in the early 20th century. He discovered that his University students had some skills lacking when it came to feeling a beat and counting. I first came across him when I was very young and went to music classes where we met So-Mi and his brother La-Mi [...]
The Suzuki Method has always been of special significance to me as it is the way I began my piano studies. However my teachers though they had the best intensions were not trained Suzuki teachers. [That’s another story, my musical development]. Shinichi Suzuki taught himself to play the violins in is father’s factory in Japan. [...]