Following on from Let’s Make Music… the article Demonstration, Imitation, Improvisation then Notation, suggests some alternative ways of getting your students to play musically from the start – without getting tied up reading notation. It goes on to suggest ways of introducing notation when the time is right.
A ‘part two’ to this article will be online soon to develop this further.
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