From daddyo@telusplanet.net Tue Feb 06 14:04:02 2007
Subject:Re: HELP! My new ( High School) teaching job ... (OT )

I have a friend who teaches. He starts off day one with how to form a chord
with the left hand and play a simple melody with the right. He found this to
be more motivationg than fingering and scales.
Brock Gillis
daddyo@telusplanet.net
"Be thinking of B-3's and Leslies goin round"

"Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. Great friends help
you move your B3"

Quoting MRK7421@aol.com:

> I am hoping maybe some of you might be able to help me on this one.
>
> I have recently been hired to teach music at a high school in Portland
> Oregon. This is a very different sort of school.... we focus on helping
> kids who
> are in danger of dropping out, have had trouble with the law,and we also are
>
> a place for pregnant girls to go to continue their education.
>
> I did a clinic at this school earlier in the year , and I am now being asked
>
> to reach two full days a week there.
> My primary instrument is drums, but to do this job I must teach percussion,
>
> keyboards, bass and guitar. I am experienced on all of them - however - the
>
> reason I am posting about this is I am once again seeking some software
> programs to help teach the students musical skills.
>
> I have started out using the PG music software program "Beginning Piano
> Master Class". It is a pretty good program .....however, it is like many
> other
> beginning piano books in that the musical examples are kind of corny.
>
> I was just wondering if some of you experienced keyboard players have any
> "brilliant" ideas regarding teaching young people about keyboards. I have
> managed to stay one step ahead of them, but the good thing is, some of them
> are
> highly motivated! I have some very eager students, and I want to help them in
>
> any way I can.
>
> I have been trying to come up with ways to make scale fingerings fun, and I
>
> am also needing to brush up on my reading. Some of these kids want to learn
>
> classical piano, which sort of blew me away. I have always been sort of a
> jazz/
> blues guy, and am very self taught.
>
> If there are any other teachers out there, private or otherwise, I might
> like to talk to you. And if you know about any good keyboard training tools,
> I
> would love to hear about that.
>
> Some or most of this could be answered to me personally off list.
>
> Just about all of these kids have extremely challenging lives, and like I
> said , I want to help them in any way I can.
>
> Mark Weisgram
> Salem Oregon
>
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