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8 Easy Guitar Songs

Many of the 2 chord songs can be learned with the easy versions of the chords and therefore can be learned in 1 class. What a way to hook...

6 Steps to Composing With Your Students

Here is a PDF of this blog post (with pictures and easier to print if need be). In other years, I did a lot of explicit rhythm practice...

Notes or Pitches?

I’ve been teaching for 9 years and only recently realized how confusing learning music can be for someone who doesn’t know anything about...

Now Offering Workshops

Sound_with_Steve_Presentation.pdf You may have noticed a new Workshops page on the site. I want to do more workshops like these with more...

How to Get Your Students Hooked on Bucket Drumming

Luckily I had a ton of old drum sticks from my parent’s basement that I was able to use. Rhythm sticks will work perfectly fine. What I...

How to Get Your Students Writing Their Own Songs

Lately, at MCS we have been working on learning the guitar. Before this, we had done recorder and many of the students learned what C...