As someone who has always loved learning about and playing instruments, I felt pretty confident with my abilities to teach my general music students about the five instrument families. I had the posters, center games, video clips, and even live demonstrations. But...
I’ve always loved playing instruments that are new (to me) and outside of my comfort zone. It’s a natural interest, but I think it serves a useful purpose too. It reminds me what it’s like to be a beginning instrumentalist with zero muscle memory and nothing but my...
I have done sound stories in elementary music classrooms for years and love the myriad of benefits students can gain from participating in them. There are dozens of musical and nonmusical benefits students gain from doing sound stories. A few of my favorite benefits...
