Music Learning and Teaching Resources

Welcome to Music Learning and Teaching Resources, a website designed to serve the needs of music teachers for performance-based music resources at no cost.

Contact at jfroseth@umich.edu

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Behavior Management

FOR BAND

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Teaching Music Reading

START WITH THE CONDUCTOR’S BEAT

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Memorization A Foundation Skill

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14 Ways of Thinking About Music Learning & Teaching

#1

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14 More Ways of Thinking About Music Learning & Teaching

#2

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Entry Level Improvisation

1A) Creativity Killers (Alert)

2) Entry Level C&R Articulations

3) Things to Do (“How to” Strategies)

4) Creating a Safe Environment

5) C&R Vocabulary For Improv

6) Tunes to Learn Ear-to-Hand (By Ear)

FOR BAND

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Scale Technique and Creativity

1) Half Scales (Minor ii7-V7) with Improv Options

2) Half Scales (Major V7-1) with Improv Options

3) Full Scales Major & Minor with Improv Options

4) Melodic Ear-to-Hand Studies 22 Levels In All the Keys

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Do It! Improvise

1) Improvisation Strategies

2) Latin Rock-Pentatonic Scales

3) Cool Jazz – Pentatonic Scales

4) Rhythm & Blues-Blues Scales

5) Funky Blues – Blues Scales

6) Latin Rock – Blues Scales

7) Cool Jazz – Blues Scales

8) ii/V7 Mixolydian Montuna

9) 2-5-1 – Major-Minor

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Do It! Improvise 2

1) Blaser Finger Pattern Studies

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Aural Transposition

1) Test of Aural Transposition

2) ‘America’ Tranposed

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Du de – Du da di Rhythmic Syllables

1) James Froseth Authorship Verification

2) Conductor’s Beat – Listen & Imitate

3) Duple Meter – Liten & Imitate

4) Triple Meter – Listen & Imitate

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Teaching Rhythm

Feels Like, Sounds Like, Looks Like

The Conductor Rules

FOLDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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Assessment

– Research Tools –

1) Melodic Ear-to-Hand Test

2) Solfege Test

3) Test of Kinesthetic Response

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HARMONIC PROGRESSION

by

ALBERT BLASER

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Improvisation for Everyone

Entry-Level Improvisation in a Group

Constructing a Safe Environment

Getting Off to a Good Start

Call & Response Videos for Home Study

“By Ear” Transcription Studies

Advanced Resources for Improvisation

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FOLDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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Rhythmic Flashslide Pattern Reading

Flashslide pattern reading videos

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Intro to Melodic Pattern Reading

Flashslide pattern reading videos

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