May 2013
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Getting to know you
Hi everyone! My Name is Andy and I am an 18 year old high school senior accepted into the Northern Arizona University Tuba/Euphonium studio for fall 2014. Now I know what your thinking-this kid isn’t a teacher, why would he post here?
I believe that music education can begin at nearly any age. As students we all influence each other, we learn from each other, and we build our musical...
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How to Practice Less & Get More Done
How to Practice Less and Get More Done
Ever feel like there’s just so much music to practice?
Or do your students not practice piano?
We’re so hung up on practicing that we forget WHY we practice sometimes– to improve.
That’s why most practicing is a waste of time.
Keep Reading…
*dusts off old book*
Title reads “musiceducators.tumblr.com”
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March 2013
2 posts
February 2013
4 posts
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Applications of Reasearch in Music Education →
This periodical linked from California Music Educators’ Association has several free online, peer-reviewed articles about music education and research. I thought it was very interesting!
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What was the moment in which you decided to become...
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What was the moment in which you decided to become...
I declare today, Sunday and Monday Teacher Dare...
teamteachers:
When a Teacher Dare Day is announced from this blog:
Reblog the announcement!
Ask one question related to education on your tumblr for your followers to answer. Post the responses in one single post later.
Ask at LEAST 2 of the tumblrs in the education community a question in their ask box. It does not have to be related to education.
Please tag your posts as “teacher dare...
January 2013
2 posts
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My Hiatus from tumblr.
As some of you may have noticed, I have taken an indefinite hiatus from tumblr. I was getting quite fed up with my personal blog and I almost deleted it. However, it is my involvement with #education that made me keep my account. I won’t be running my tumblrs as I used to, but I feel I am doing this community a disservice if I continue to neglect this blog. I will be returning solely to...
The world lost an amazing musician tonight.
Earl Williams left us this evening after a short battle with brain cancer. He was a great man and a legendary jazz drummer. No one plays, anymore, like he did. May he RIP.
From his BIO
“Earl Williams, a native of Detroit, Michigan, began studying drums at the early age of eleven. While in Detroit, he studied at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and the Detroit Institute of Musical...
December 2012
7 posts
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Trumpet and Music Education
I am a music educator who majored in trumpet. I currently teach band, 2 choirs, orchestra, and jazz band. I have been teaching for almost 10 years now and started when I was 22. Taking piano seriously definitely helped me in my choral teaching skills. I also got a master’s degree in orchestral conducting. During my undergrad I took 2 years of choir, 4 years of wind ensemble, and 3 years of...
straightmaninlovewithaman asked: I just wanted to add to the last answer. I'm currently a trumpet music ed major, and I'm trying to take piano lessons and choir to equip myself to be a capable choir director, and I'm trying to familiarize myself with the orchestra world as well. As far as employment, the more experience you have in different ensembles and on different instruments will be the most beneficial....
pianistpower asked: hello! I am wondering, as a future music education major; should my principal instrument be trumpet or piano?
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"Getting to Know You" and other things
If you take a look at the top of the blog’s home page, you will see links about the Getting to Know You project. This is ongoing and I invite all of my new followers to share a little about themselves. Just head over to the submit button and say hi! (I added links below for your convenience)
-Nick
Intro for New Followers
Getting to Know You
Submit
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“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with...”
– John Cage
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“We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of...”
– Jesse O’Neill
November 2012
2 posts
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“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much...”
– Anatole France
October 2012
4 posts
I found WiFi!
But my apartment is a total loss.
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Leaving for Sandy
I’m getting out of here tomorrow morning. I live right on the water on the south shore of Long Island, so bye-bye apartment. Good luck everyone. Stay safe.
When you have to take tons of core classes in high...
whatshouldwecallclarinet:
^^This
September 2012
19 posts
roastduckie asked: If dakinandone's aural skills class uses a computer program like MacGamut, the best advice is to not put it off and cram the day before it's due. If you do a little bit every night, you'll get much, much better in a much more beneficial way.
sydneybunny asked: To the ask about aural dictation, does your school use MacGamut? If they don't, I would recommend purchasing it. It unfortunately can be a little pricey (upwards of 60 dollars) but well worth it, and you can practice melodic, harmonic, rhythmic dictation. Also, practicing dictating songs you know/like is a good way too, and training yourself to hear "DO" and pick out the tonic of...
midgetsonfire asked: For specific intervals, think of specific melodies that you already know; for example, a perfect fourth is the same as "here comes the bride", a perfect fifth is the jump in star wars, a major sixth is the NBC theme, stuff like that. I'm only in the serious basics of theory so far (we havent even gotten to chords yet LOL) but maybe that'll help a little!
dakinandone asked: I'd like to ask you all something as a whole. I am a freshman in college majoring in music education and I'm doing fantastic in all my classes. I feel very good about where I'm at. Except one thing. I am god-awful at aural skills. I'm failing because of my melodic dictation test. I just want to know how I can go about practicing to help improve on this important skill....
prayforoptimists:
Sin, Sing, and Snog: On the legality of the Chicago strike:
ghost-of-algren:
dagseoul:
musiceducators:
“Under Illinois’ Educational Labor Act, teachers may strike only for certain matters subject to negotiations; wages, hours, other terms and conditions of employment; specifically the law states that teacher performance is not to be the…
I’d...
"I don't support his opinions, but here let me...
ghost-of-algren:
positivelypersistentteach:
ghost-of-algren:
dagseoul:
http://musiceducators.tumblr.com/
A 21 year old public school teacher? I think not. But he claims to be. And he claims to be an editor on the education tag.
http://radboyscout.tumblr.com/
Really? Is he just a crazy liar making shit up? WTF?
Why are tag editors always douchebags? Why is that?
Tag editors are...
chicoguardian:
Music Educators: On the Chicago teachers strike:
musiceducators:
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are solely those of Nick Errico and do not reflect the opinions of MusicEducators or #education
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I’ve been holding off on commenting on the matter because my view goes against most of my colleagues on…
I don’t...
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How is this vocalist an editor on the education...
girlwithalessonplan:
dagseoul:
http://musiceducators.tumblr.com/
A 21 year old public school teacher? I think not. But he claims to be. And he claims to be an editor on the education tag.
http://radboyscout.tumblr.com/
Really? Is he just a crazy liar making shit up? WTF?
He’s never claimed to be an editor. He runs a music ed blog. It doesn’t matter if someone is not a teacher; that...
So, I’ve read a bunch of responses. I must say this: none of you understand what I’m saying. Most of the replies have been about the bad conditions, pay, lack of funds, etc. All of those points I agree with. I am not saying that the teachers should stand for that. I thought I was already very clear about that.
My point, again that I thought was very clear, was that going on...
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On the legality of the Chicago strike:
“Under Illinois’ Educational Labor Act, teachers may strike only for certain matters subject to negotiations; wages, hours, other terms and conditions of employment; specifically the law states that teacher performance is not to be the subject of negotiation or a strike and teacher evaluation is one of the major strike issues.”
-abc.com
So, it may or may not be legal....
contrabassic:
Music Educators: I think some people didn’t understand my CPS Strike post.
musiceducators:
I said that striking was not the correct solution. I didn’t say that the teachers don’t deserve better. I didn’t say that they should just accept being treated like crap. But to not do your job isn’t going to make things better. It’s going to hurt the kids more than teaching in...
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I think some people didn't understand my CPS...
I said that striking was not the correct solution. I didn’t say that the teachers don’t deserve better. I didn’t say that they should just accept being treated like crap. But to not do your job isn’t going to make things better. It’s going to hurt the kids more than teaching in crappy conditions. At least they would be taught something.
The union reps are...
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On the Chicago teachers strike:
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are solely those of Nick Errico and do not reflect the opinions of MusicEducators or #education
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I’ve been holding off on commenting on the matter because my view goes against most of my colleagues on #Education (of which I am an editor). I believe that the teachers are in the wrong for going on strike...
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Thank your parents for the gift of music.
Whether you wanted to, or half heart-idly took guitar lessons as a child [music lessons], you owe your parents a vote of thanks. I found some data published in 2010 in Nature Reviews Neuroscience showing that music training for beginners of a young age may activate neurological connections that prime the brain for other aspects of human communication such as language, memory and speech.
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Getting to Know You (all)
My name is “Mister Conrad” when I am with my students, and am about a thousand years old. I teach music in grades preK through 5th in a small innercity school where music instruction happens in the classrooms — there is no music room. No auditorium either.
My blog is primarily for people who work as I do, in a NYC elementary school teaching music.
Maybe it needs to switch over to...
Just started filling out my Julliard...
Is anyone else working on grad school applications? Or undergrad for that matter?
August 2012
10 posts
Remember to submit any great Music Education or...
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Two Unusually Powerful Ways to Strengthen Music... →
The following steps will help you almost guarantee that a piece is securely memorized, once you’ve gotten the notes and musical ideas in your head. (Or waste hours playing the same passages over and over again– it’s up to you.)
And it works with pieces of any level.
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The Silent Piano Lesson →
If anyone has an issue with my last post, feel...
Sincerely,
Nick
Petition to allow for NYS residents to defend... →
radboyscout:
In NYS, you must prove that you have substantial suspicion that you are in constant danger in order to carry a firearm on you. This is unacceptable. In lieu of recent tragedies across the USA, in “gun-free” places like NYS, we the people of the great state of New York are tired of not being able to defend ourselves against these nutjobs and criminals. I can’t say that Aurora...
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Getting To Know You | Emily
Hi, all!
My name is Emily Trapp and I will be a senior Piano Performance/Pedagogy major (and Communication minor) at Goshen College in northern Indiana. It’s a tiny, Christian, liberal arts school that has been the best decision of my life for several reasons. I am originally from Canby, Oregon (suburb of Portland) and have been amazed with how much quality music I have been exposed to by...
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Getting to Know You: An Ongoing Project
For those of you who are new to the think tank, we have an ongoing project thing. You head over to the submit box and tell us your story. Just start talking about yourself, where you came from, where you are, and where you are going. When I started the project, we had 264 followers. Now we have 12,432. Thank you all for your continued support and please don’t be shy.
-Nick
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