Started to listen to the new Silversun Pickups on the way to work today. Only got through the first track completely, and a little bit of the second, but it was a start.
The other thing that happened this morning before work was that I finally started to sit down and look at my situation regarding teaching. It started with Beatles stuff today. A couple of magazines devoted to their recording, and the way they went about learning their craft, and then an article on their songwriting approach. That may seem like an odd place to start when it comes to teaching, but I really feel like everyone can learn something from studying songcraft. Chord progressions are building blocks for melody and musical ideas, and learning where chords fall on the neck is a step in learning the intricacies if the neck, and therefore, the instrument.
I've always believed that, in order to make learning stick, you've got to pick up your music theory in the context of songs, because in the end, songs are the reason we all pick up the guitar in the first place.
The next few days will be spent furthering this, finding resources to set things up for what is to come, both on the bookkeeping side and the teaching/learning side.
There's more listening to do as well.
And band stuff.
And songs to learn. (Yes, "Red House," I'm talking to you)
And...
The other thing that happened this morning before work was that I finally started to sit down and look at my situation regarding teaching. It started with Beatles stuff today. A couple of magazines devoted to their recording, and the way they went about learning their craft, and then an article on their songwriting approach. That may seem like an odd place to start when it comes to teaching, but I really feel like everyone can learn something from studying songcraft. Chord progressions are building blocks for melody and musical ideas, and learning where chords fall on the neck is a step in learning the intricacies if the neck, and therefore, the instrument.
I've always believed that, in order to make learning stick, you've got to pick up your music theory in the context of songs, because in the end, songs are the reason we all pick up the guitar in the first place.
The next few days will be spent furthering this, finding resources to set things up for what is to come, both on the bookkeeping side and the teaching/learning side.
There's more listening to do as well.
And band stuff.
And songs to learn. (Yes, "Red House," I'm talking to you)
And...
Comments
Post a Comment