I’ve attended many training sessions and professional development courses where I’ve been given a lot of contradictory advice about teaching beginners.
These four songs from Barbra Streisand’s 1966 album Color Me Barbra are the prescribed music for OCR’s Area of Study 2: Popular song. They need to be studied in the context of other examples of music...
This resource focuses primarily on teaching piano to younger beginners. It explores the right time to start learning an instrument, teaching notation and rhythm, forming a sound technical basis,...
This resource explores many of the writing processes that went into one of Bowie's most important works – the album Low, released in 1977. Prior to the release of Low, Bowie had already explored ways...
This is the second in a series of resources to help students develop their understanding and experience of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and from the 20th and 21st centuries....
This resource is a selection box of ideas that you can choose from and adapt to suit your own situation. Listening, researching, composing and tech are all included and given a Christmas slant that...
Guy Swinton takes a look at Empowering Ensembles with Technology – a new e-book by Theresa Hoover.
