Austin Music Teacher

Archive for January 2009

History of Music

Posted by: austinmusicteacher on: January 6, 2009

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Scientists now believe that modern humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago. Around 50,000 years ago these humans began to disperse from Africa reaching all the habitable continents. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal [...]

Intro to Piano 1

Posted by: austinmusicteacher on: January 6, 2009

I use the Faber method primarily for beginning students.  The Piano Adventures is successful with very young children, ages 4 to 6.  It comes with a CD which helpful for home practice.  Having attended a workshop with Randall Faber has enabled me to better utilize the materials presented by this talented and creative resource. Supplimentary [...]

Improvisation

Posted by: austinmusicteacher on: January 6, 2009

Not every student wants to explore improvisation but for those who do, there is ample material included in my curriculum to learn the basics of chord progressions, 12 bar blues patterns, and individual compositional techniques.  Building skills through a step by step process learning of rhythm, theory, harmony and melody, students are able to create [...]


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