Teaching is SO FUN

Here are my four tutorials for playing the various instrumental parts for The Strokes’ ‘Eternal Summer’. I’ve kept them super short because if I wanted to upload these to tiktok I guess I could! But mainly because human attention spans are very short these days, and I’ve made these parts super easy to follow, so…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the themes explored in the past few contemporary pedagogies classes. I think that self-censorship in music education, one such theme, is the most interesting and critical thing to examine for music teachers, for their own personal and professional development. The first time in our classes that self-censorship came up…

I’m starting the project we have for this semester for which we have to record a music tutorial and cover of a song released in the past five years. Trying to break things down into baby steps, so I’m not as overwhelmed by this task as I was last week. 1. RECORD DRUM BEAT This…

This is my first try at a music video. It isn’t my best work, but I am keen to share it because I want to be able to look at how much I progressed with the right attitude in a week. I’d recorded all the parts, no problem (my first time playing guitar and drums!).…

About a month ago we heard from Brad in Tuesday class about the pros and cons of informal learning. What is informal learning? I’ve noticed that many definitions of informal learning state that it is what formal learning is not. Sometimes it is even referred to as ‘non-formal’ learning. This implies that formal learning is…

PERMISSIONS A fantastic lecture presented by Dr Rachael Dwyer this week. Really interesting to hear from Dr Dwyer’s experience working with First Nations Kabi Kabi elders to produce a song about the koala. It was very interesting to discuss whether it was appropriate to use this song in a music classroom or school in NSW.…

Hello! Here’s a canon from class! This was fun! It was a great composition project because: 2. It is transferrable to alternate music notation forms, eg could be completed using a DAW such as soundtrap 3. This kind of canon project lends itself well to numeracy skills and even cross-curriculum with Maths or Science (It’s…

I absolutely love Talbot’s “we rarely share what we do not know” (Talbot, 2018), said in reference to how teachers can be uncomfortable sharing things they feel they would be more vulnerable teaching because it isn’t a familiar form of music-making to them. I know for sure that this is why we as teachers often…