by Tom Hawley | Sep 28, 2020 | Articles, CS-General
by Dr. Missy Strong A technique for Unit 3, Step 6 (Read – Rote) at a Distance Some of my best ideas come to me spontaneously and are, to be honest, quite simple. This past week was my first teaching in person in over six months. I tried to make a simple...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 28, 2020 | Articles, CS-Instrumental
by James O. Froseth Beginning band education researcher Professor Emeritus James Froseth shares distance learning videos. These instrument specific rhythm reading videos take a sound before sight approach. These videos can be shared with your...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General
by Peter Amidon Dear Singing Friends, I have joined the ranks what I am sure must be thousands of church choir directors creating virtual choir movies for weekly virtual church services. It is always surprising and moving to listen to the range of individual...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, CS-General
by Chris Powers Past FAME Vice-President and Teacher Trainer Chris Anne Powers shares her new layout of the scope and sequence of CS over a several years period. John Feierabend shared this with his Conversational Solfege certification courses this summer and...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General
by Leslie Weaver FAME teacher trainer Leslie Weaver demonstrates her technique to teach students whose turn it is to sing when learning a call and response song. Check out the video: … You must be logged in to view this page. Join now at...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles
by Miriam Capellan (she/her) [email protected] Fanny Mendelssohn, Romantic composer and sister to Felix wrote her own wedding music, staying up past midnight to finish the night before her big day. Why? Felix had promised to write the music but unexpectedly fell out...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | FS-General
It’s the year 2020. As a new mother, you sit in the rocking chair holding your crying infant wishing, hoping, praying, that he will fall asleep before you join in on the tears. You do all you can to rock your inconsolable baby to sleep, but nothing seems to comfort...
by Tom Hawley | Jul 30, 2020 | FAME Podcast
In this final part of our series with passionate black music educator and activist Jasmine Fripp, Missy asks about practical ways predominantly white music education organizations can invite and center the voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous music educators. You...
by Tom Hawley | Jul 10, 2020 | FS-General
Created by FAME teacher trainer David Rankine of Kington, Ontario in Canada, The “Tuneful, Beatful, Artful Music Class” was an attempt to re-create and preserve the excitement and research-based learning embodied in First Steps in Music and Conversational...
