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Shredding & Jamming: Multimedia Music Education that is fun!

Guitar Shred Show is definitely one of the more creative ways of using multimedia applications to allow people to interact with music on the internet. One nice thing about Mr. Fastfinger is that he’ll never loose his patience as you work with him to learn licks and techniques on the electric guitar or jam with an accordion playing demon or dancing dwarves. With software that allows for the creation of online multimedia applications available at reasonable prices (with education discounts)… Read More »Shredding & Jamming: Multimedia Music Education that is fun!

Students know best about other students! More on young audiences…

It was refreshing to finally read about students’ perspectives of how to get other young people to attend classical music concerts. In some previous posts I have mentioned the need for a younger perspective when it comes to the topic of young audiences and classical music concerts. I’m not sure what the demographic make up is of this particular group that advises Lincoln Center but all the more reason to get this discussion going in our classrooms with our own… Read More »Students know best about other students! More on young audiences…

Hip Hop and Improvisation

The way hip hop is portrayed in the media plays a great role in the way our students and society in general perceive it. There has been an entire world of hip hop that has been left out of the mainstream media and that may soon change. The way rap is discussed in music classrooms can be greatly broadened if consciousness in hip hop becomes a part of the mainstream coverage of it and the conversations in our classrooms. Speaking… Read More »Hip Hop and Improvisation

Popular Music and Music Education

The recent International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference gave me a lot to think about. I will discuss some specific issues that were addressed at the conference in the next few days. The overarching feeling I had leaving the conference was that our field really does need to make more connections with scholars in the various fields of music.Read More »Popular Music and Music Education

Why are record sales down?

The next time the music industry and the current state of popular music comes up in conversation with your students ask them to answer some of the questions from this ipsos survey and then have a discussion about the answers in class. Do they agree with the results of the survey? Do you?