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How to Get YOUR Students Transcribing Melodies BY EAR by The End of Grade 3 (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series By the end of grade 3, I want my students writing down diatonic melodies as they hear them, with rhythm...
Steve Giddings
May 31, 20177 min read
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Inspiring Kids and Workshopping a Rock Band
The PEI Jazz and Blues Festival School Tour, headed by Andrew Waite and The Firm, was a huge success at Montague Consolidated School. Â We...
Steve Giddings
May 22, 20174 min read
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Celebrate The New Website and Blog
A new website deserves a celebration. I was pondering ways to promote the new website aside from telling everyone I know and annoying...
Steve Giddings
May 17, 20176 min read
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How to Create the Perfect Pop Performance
This is a guest post from Elisa Jones of ProfessionalMusicEducator.com. I am very excited to share this post with you. Check out her site...
Steve Giddings
May 10, 20176 min read
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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...
Steve Giddings
May 4, 20171 min read
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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...
Steve Giddings
Mar 30, 20178 min read
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