On FUN and PLAY

If both you and your students are not having fun in your music classes, something is not working.  My goal for elementary music education is to raise Life Long Music Makers. 

That means that the children have the SKILLS to make music by the time they leave my school, at their level. 

They are beat competent.  They can sing in tune.  They can hold their own harmony part.  They can accompany themselves.  They can improvise with appropriate melodic and rhythmic lines. They create music that makes musical sense. They understand chord progression and the theory behind it . . .  the list goes on . . .

It ALSO means the children have the DESIRE to make music when they leave my class. 

That’s where the fun comes in.  If music making is NOT a blast, why would any child want to continue to make music?

But if it’s the most fun they have during their day, chances are very good they will continue making music, and continue growing as musicians long after they leave me and move onto other teachers. 

That’s how I know I’ve been successful . . . when my students are:

Making Music for Their Lives!