Music Igniter Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot. Day 7: Participants will look at leadership, planning, behaviour and groupwork skills. We drove down to Stoke to investigate the different facets of group work. We learned about the different roles we play when in groups and how unconsciously we can often be trapped inside roles. We explored: Different [...]
May, 2007
Piano pedagogy
Cool site. Been reading up on different piano teaching methodology.
Finally google are showing community arts blogs on their search engines!!
Yippe!! Been waiting ages for Google to check and add community arts blogs to their blog search engine. It all depends on bloggers to submit them, but after an impatient wait, they are starting to appear. I am really glad there are some other community arts bloggers out there! Here is another one. Music and [...]
Dilemmas, shouting and more work in the pipeline
I am in a bit of turmoil as to whether I go for the PGCE/GTP or keep going as a free-lancer. The arguments for both corners are strong. At some point I probably will enter the formal education sector but maybe I will stick this out a while longer I think… Arhhh!!! At one of [...]
Music Igniter Day 6: Ensemble & performance: participants will do practical workshops involving leading groups towards improvised performance.
Sid Peacock joined us to show us some workshop delivery techniques in improvisation using graphic scores, and lots of other fun ideas. We then spent the remainder of the day sewing the seeds for projects we are going to devise and then spent an hour of the day working on performance skills. We looked at [...]
Music Igniter Course Day 5 Songwriting: working in small groups students will devise a number of songs from different starting points.
We looked at different ways in getting participants to compose original pieces. Firstly we did some vocal exercises with PM using pentatonic scales. He played and sang some phrases for us to copy. It got our vocal chords warmed up and he led us through an exploration of the A min pentatonic scale. We were [...]
The Sound Health Series
An interesting read on how music can improve student’s cognitive abilities. Maybe I should play some classical or baroque music in my troublesome schools.
Update
Things are continuing to go well; I shall be doing some summer projects with Birmingham City Council’s Youth Services and LACES (Looked after children). I also had a meeting with the head of music at my old secondary school and we bounced ideas as to how to get more of the Gifted and Talented students [...]
Perry Beeches School First Workshop in April ’07
DSCN1777 Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot. I am working with the Performing Arts teacher of Perry Beeches School to give some of the year 8 and 9 students an opportunity to experience the joys of music. Some of the groups I am working with seem disengaged with education and for most teachers behavioural issues occur frequently. [...]
Links to other blogs by Musicians who are Music Leader members
It was good to see Music Leader encourage musicians to get involved with blogging, probably for some a good while but I only noticed this page today.