Each Monday evening at 8PM EST, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators from all over the world and to get new tips and tricks to help you succeed in the classroom. The entire #musedchat discussion is organized and moderated by Joe Guarr.
Q1: Let's do some quick responses to Jacobs quotes. How could the following apply in a K-12 music setting?
"Imitate by trial and error. Be willing to make a mistake." #musedchat
As far as imitation goes, I think it's important to provide a high quality model sound for each of our young musicians to attempt to imitate, either ourselves or through recordings. #musedchat
A1: Imitation is often the best way to improve in music. We need to know a sound to create it. Obviously in jazz this is big, but it's important everywhere. #MusEdChat
Q1: Let's do some quick responses to Jacobs quotes. How could the following apply in a K-12 music setting?
"Imitate by trial and error. Be willing to make a mistake." #musedchat
This one is really important. Students can be overly hard on themselves when they don't immediately sound like a pro. It takes years & we need goals & realistic expectations. #MusEdChat
Q3. Concept of sound is so important. Tough idea to get across to kids. I should find some bad recordings to demo the ln play better ones to demo this. #musedchat
A2. To be musical. Be deliberate and know where you want the notes to go. Always liked the quote about playing 2 tubas at once, one in his mind that was a few seconds ahead of the one in his arms. #musedchat
A2: My prof. in college took a few lessons with him. Learned some of his warmup routine, esp. the focus on a beautiful sound right from the start. #musedchat
A2.5 And to really see students as individual. Always sounds like one of his greatest strengths was diagnosising individuals tracks to improvement. #musedchat
Q3: For somebody unfamiliar with the pedagogy of Arnold Jacobs, where is a good place to start? What resources are out there aside from his book Song & Wind? #musedchat
