Teaching Materials | Instrumental & Vocal

Teaching across different brass instruments

There was a time when many professional brass players would have been multi-instrumentalists, but these days we tend to have only one main instrument that we study to a professional level. Any...

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Warm-ups for guitar

The first question with warm-ups is: why should my students warm up? The simple answer is that it will make them better musicians.

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Developing internal pulse

To forge a career in music, you have to possess an excellent internal metronome: you need to have developed an ability to feel the pulse of a piece of music, and to subconsciously count in your head...

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Trumpet repertoire in the early stages

I’ve attended many training sessions and professional development courses where I’ve been given a lot of contradictory advice about teaching beginners.

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Christmas music for visiting music teachers

A resource looking at how we can incorporate Christmas music into our teaching.

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Sightreading

In this resource, we will explore the benefits of strong sightreading and look at how we can demystify it, recast it in a positive light, and integrate it into our teaching – rather than pigeon-holing...

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Playing with expression

How can we approach teaching so that musical understanding develops hand in hand with technique? Is it even possible to teach expressive playing, or is there an ‘x-factor’ that is innate in only a...

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