Super Deluxe Music

In my 25 years of experience as a professional music educator, I have discovered that with all of the sophisticated and profoundly worded music education philosophies there is one simple approach which I continue to draw upon year after year and student after student.

Simply said, teaching music is ENCOURAGEMENT!  To encourage students to sing, play, write or perform music in order to bring them to a point of self-confid Read the rest of this entry »

Using the well-known fact that music education raises a child’s IQ by up to 40 percent, we can now consider how books and reading in general can help our “musical” children.

Presently, mankind, having achieved enormous strides in the field of technology, continues to invent new means of receiving and distributing information almost daily. Radios, TVs, computers, and the Internet are now a normal way of life. Do you know th Read the rest of this entry »

Music education has been included in many curricula in different nations around the globe. However, since not all students are musically-inclined, not all of them are motivated to learn music. As a result, they are no longer excited to experience formal music schooling inside their classrooms. With this conflict of interests, music teachers are then challenged or pressured on how they could make their students learn and love mus Read the rest of this entry »