Music Learning and Teaching Resources

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RESOURCES

Contact at jfroseth@umich.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

– PREAMBLE –

 

An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students With Complimentary Implementation Resources

James O. Froseth

Editor, Molly A. Weaver

– NEW POSTINGS –

TEACHING

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Negative Feedback

Note Reading

The Foot Tap

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 1

An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Behavior Management

CHAPTER 2
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Getting Beginning Students Off to a Good Start

1. RECRUITING & INSTRUMENT PLACEMENT
2. EMBOUCHURE SET-UPS
3. PRODUCING A NOTATED TONE – LOOK – LISTEN – PLAY –
4. INSTRUMENT ASSEMBLY VIDEOS
5. POSTURE & INSTRUMENT POSITION VIDEOS
6. INSTRUMENT HAND POSITION VIDEOS
7. CALL & RESPONSE FOR CLASS ‘UP CLOSE’ ONE-ON-ONE
8. MUSIC-MAKING WITH THREE NOTES
9. & 10. TRANSPOSITION CHARTS
11. INTRODUCTION TO “PLAY ALONG” –
 12. “PLAY ALONG”  & MEMORIZE 
CHAPTER 3
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Customizing and

Individualiing Group

Instruction

CHAPTER 4
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Motivation

CHAPTER 5
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Teaching Rhythm and

Music Reading

CHAPTER 6
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Assessment & Feedback

1) Teacher Assessment

2) Self-Assessment

3) Peer Assessment, and

4) Adult At-Home Assessment

5) Feedback: Non-Verbal, Verbal & Witten

CHAPTER 7
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Dropouts – Causes – Consequences – Remedies

CHAPTER 8
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Memorization

– A Foundation Skill –

CHAPTER 9
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Singing Develops Concepts to Guide Home Practice

Must Read for Happy Results

1) Sing Along Videos to Guide Home Practice

2. Home Videos for Practice & Play

CHAPTER10
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

-The Call and Response-

A Technique that Teaches and Assesses

CHAPTER 11
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

The Play Along & Musical Osmosis

“Osmosis is what’s happening while you are attending to other matters.”

CHAPTER 12
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

    Teaching  Improvisation

Entry-Level and  Beyond 

1) Creativity Killers

2) Constructing a Safe Improv Environment

3) “What to Do” Strategies

4) C&R Videos to Develop Vocbulary

5) “By Ear” Ausio Transcription

6) Do It! Improvise

CHAPTER 13
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

    Accompanied Half Scales & Full Scales  with Options

 

1) Adding Harmony & Rhythm to Scale

2) Adding Improv Options to Scales

CHAPTER 14
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Personal Lessons that Lasted a Lifetime

 

by  James Froseth

CHAPTER 15
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Teaching Practices with Unintended Consequences

 

1) Note Reading and Computer Cursors

2) Foot Taping & Overload

CHAPTER 16
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

   Teaching Students How to Practice

 1) Conditions for Successful Home Practice

2) Models Define Objectives

3) Singing Develops Concepts to Guide Practice

Why Don’t Students Practice?

CHAPTER 17
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students –  With Complimentary Implementation Resources

TEACH   PATTERNS

1) Note Reading vs Pattern Reading

2) Assessing Rhythmic Reading

3) Assessing Melodic Reading

4) Music Reading – Teaching Resources

(Flashcard – Flashslide Videos in 2/4 & 6/8)

 

CHAPTER 18
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Teaching Rhythmic Pattern Reading

Rhythmic Flashslide Pattern Reading Videos

Rhythmic Pattern Reading Assessment

Rhythmic Flashslide Assessment Videos

 

CHAPTER 19
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Introduction to Melodic Pattern Reading

Melodic Flashslide Pattern Reading Videos

Melodic Pattern Reading Assessment

Melodic Flashslide Assesment Videos

CHAPTER 20
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students –  With Complimentary Implementation Resources

INTONATION

1) In-Tune Models Provide Pitch References

2) In-Tune Harmonic Accs Provide Pitch References

3) Play Along Models with Accs Improve Intonation

CHAPTER 21
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

28 Ways of Thinking About Music Learning & Teaching

CHAPTER 22
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Resources for

Self-Directed

Professional Development

CHAPTER 23
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Teacher Resources for Developing Instrumental Modeling Skills

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Star-Level Ear Training for Advanced Students

CHAPTER 24
An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Assessment Tools for Research

Instrument Ear-to-Hand
Instrumental Transposition
Kinesthetic Response to Rhythm in Music
Solfege – Verbal Association

Chapter 25

An eBook for Teacher Trainers and Teachers of Beginning & Middle School Band Students – With Complimentary Implementation Resources

Harmonic Ear-to-Hand Skills Program

A Teacher Training Resource

Addendum 1

Melodic Ear-to-Hand Test

Replicating Melodic Patterns By Ear – From Memory

Aural Transposition

1) Test of Aural Transposition
2) ‘America’ – Tranposeition “By Ear”

Addendum 2

– More About Osmosis – 

.
The most magical type of learning because it seems to happen without effort.”
Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915

Addendum 3

Pedagogy that Can Make a Difference

(Three Must Reads)

Addendum 4

Du de – Du da di Rhythmic Syllables

1)  James Froseth Authorship Verification
2)  Conductor’s Beat – Listen & Imitate
3)  Duple Meter – Liten & Imitate
4)  Triple Meter – Listen & Imitate

Addendum 5

Are Your Students Learning Skills That Will Last a Lifetime?

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A True story about how to findout

Addendum 6

Music Teaching

“A Performing Art”

Addendum 7

Set Your Standards

“In Sound”

Addendum 8

Self-Initiated and

Self-Directed Study 

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Independence – The Freedom to Learn

Addendum 9

Carl Orff

On Music Learning

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Brief, But Timely

Addendum 10

– McFarland Study – Individualizing Instruction in the Beginning Band

Published Research

Addendum 11

Entry Level Improvisation

1A) Creativity Killers (Alert)
2) Entry Level C&R Articulations
3) Things to Do (“How to” Strategies)
4) Creating a Safe Environment
5) C&R Vocabulary For Improv
6) Tunes to Learn Ear-to-Hand (By Ear)
FOR BAND

 

Addendum 12

– Improvisation – Supplementary Resources

1) Improvisation Strategies

2) Latin Rock-Pentatonic Scales

3) Cool Jazz – Pentatonic Scales

4) Rhythm & Blues-Blues Scales

5) Funky Blues – Blues Scales

6) Latin Rock – Blues Scales

7) Cool Jazz – Blues Scales

8) ii/V7 Mixolydian Montuna

9) 2-5-1 – Major-Minor

Addendum 13

Harmonic Progression

by

ALBERT BLASER

Addendum 14

Finger Pattern Studies for Music Improvisation

by
ALBERT BLASER

Addendum 15

What Research Tells Us About an Aural Orientation to Instrumental Performance

A Teacher Resource

Addendum 16

Visual Diagnostic Test Configured to Teach

 

 

A Teacher Training Resource
ADDENDUM 17

28 Ways of Thinking About Music Teaching and Music Learning

ADDENDUM 18

LEAD YOUR STUDENTS WITH THE

“CALL AND REPONSE WARMUP”

 

 

 

 

ADDENDUM 19

 BREAK IT DOWN RESOURCES

ADDENDUM 20

Resources for Assigned Self-Direct Study

1st & 2nd Year Band Students

Addendum 21

Teaching The Dotted Quarter and Eighth Note Pattern

Addendum 22

Assigned Self-Directed Study

 

“‘Show me what you learned on your own”
ADDENDUM 23

The Unintended Consequences of Teaching “Note Reading”

Teach Pattern Reading

Addendum 24

Training the Teacher as Performing Artist

Text of a clinic presentation
Addendum 24

 

 

 

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