NYC Music Teacher

First off, let me give you a TABLE OF CONTENTS of this website: Your Students' Favorite Music (this is where you are now) Forget Hot ...

Here's the scene: it's the first day of class at your new school in NYC. This is a music class for 9th graders who've never play...

. Zoltan Kodaly's work and thought is incalculably influential on current music education theory and practice. See below for a more co...

Are you beginning to understand that you need a "real song" even on the first day? When you're teaching very young children,...

What's this? More heresy? A lot of teachers who do utilize pop music in their teaching try to incorporate a 12-bar blues very ear...

Six Four One Five    -    vi    IV    I    V     -    Ami    F    C    G 4 simple chords, and a world of new repertoire.  Once you ...

There's a very interesting article in the October 2012 issue of The Atlantic magazine. It's by Amanda Ripley. http://www.th...

. Watching a few classes or rehearsals from out in the auditorium seats this past week, I was thinking: - it's very hard for the st...