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Group Instrumental Teaching & Mixed Abilities

As we all know, group teaching is a controversial topic. One of the most frequent objections to it (in my experience) is that since no two students will progress at the same rate, or in the same way, the activity is doomed to failure because the less able students will hold the faster learners back and…

Jun 15, 2013 in Instrumental Music, Music Education.

Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Hucbald…

It shouldn’t be too long before I  can post my next article in the series  ‘Pythagoras and the Music of the Future’. It has taken me some time partly because I have made a start on ‘digitising’ some of my earlier compositions to enable sharing. The first fruits of this will appear in my next post introducing…

Jan 28, 2013 in Composition, Contemporary Music, Theories.

Tuning tips for teachers of young/amateur bands and wind ensembles

Many will be used to tuning to a sustained note, usually A, or in the case of brass or wind bands, it could be a B flat. The problem with this is that many players will, consciously or unconsciously, compensate by correcting the pitch with the embouchure. Once the music starts, the tuning is ‘out’…

Dec 16, 2012 in Instrumental Music, Music Education.
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