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Colleagues Collection

Welcome to the Colleagues Collection.   You will find resources here suggested by the membership.  If you have ideas for additional entries, please send them to Deborah Lynch, [email protected]. 
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Hans Indigo Spencer uses the Kodaly and Solfege methods to help children and adults focus on playing and enjoying music. He has taught college ear training and is motivated to make ANYONE able to develop their own musical voice, to get inside tones, to interact with music and hear melody and harmony in an intimate way.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6TViietQM
How to use singing to train your ear.

https://youtu.be/opJEPTfvlZs?si=apNj6p9i4pm6lgOT
This video teaches audiation to enhance the experience of sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5Uk2q7oTo
How to tell IV chords from V chords, using tracing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDOfDqXVPV0&t=551s
Mastering Major Scales with Solfege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5JYktC_KBI
Ear Training in Minor Keys with Solfege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMYH-yPDSi4
Using familiar songs for a group class.

https://youtu.be/-BD2M6wqJSQ?si=5c2PygV4YKdZXleh
How to hear major 7th chords.

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Rhythm Changes – A Complete Guide
Demonstrates Rhythm Changes in “I’ve Got Rhythm” by Ira and George Gershwin on four levels. It includes a backing track, plus written out scores. For a student who needs a jazz challenge or is interested in jazz band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6R2TDbXDRw&t=898

7 Rules of Fingering – by key-notes
This is a good reference for adult students or transfer students. Or interesting discussion about Chopin’s philosophy for teachers. If students can learn the rules for fingerings, they will be able to solve more fingering problems on their own.
https://youtu.be/lEUM_GeS1aQ?si=ylThb7o_ns-jju7x

1 chord progression – 5 levels of complexity.
Perk up a lesson with a way to expand your students’ practical theory skills. Winter break is a great time to let students enjoy being creative over their break. They can explore playing carols or other favorites from lead sheets or improvising chord progressions as they play. This video will give them a start to going a step beyond their present level. It may encourage them to go farther and to consider the Jazz
Ensemble Experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_i2axaWzaE

Here are some suggestions for a deeper dive into Jazz, improv and more fun lessons and practicing.
1) Bradley Sowash - iRealPro Going Further For Teachers
https://bradleysowash.com/blog/irealpro-going-further

2) How to practice with iRealPro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfZDfQU2aA
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To help with AIM ear training – 1 hour loops of intervals for students to practice. They are played in segments that help the students with any level they struggle with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Sg68XbngQ

Exercises to Hear Almost Every Chord – 1 hour of examples for students to practice, with suggestions for how to improve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-TXGYxOSw

​Have you watched Janna Williamson, who teaches in our Illinois backyard?  Check out her online information. She has a wealth of material available to inspire you.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JannaWilliamson

What about the student who had no time to practice this week? 
Try using an idea from Jason Zac. The student will be excited to explore their instrument further. Perhaps to the point of actually playing an assigned piece. Instead of feeling like they wasted their lesson, they can discover something that allows them to spring into a new direction with their exploring. You can check out his approach here with his five exciting music challenges for 2022. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33KZsRVPjXg
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For those students working in the upper levels of AIM, they may enjoy Julian Bradley’s approach to the modes. I find his various explanations clear to follow and accurate. That is not always the case with other online explanations.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF47dr8sVyE
 
Greg Niemczuk has given over 400 performances in the last fifteen years. Due to the pandemic in April 2020 he launched an unprecedented wordwide project to record videos-lectures on all the works of Fryderyk Chopin. All together more than 315 episodes were made in two languages (Polish and English) published on YouTube and on Grzegorz's Facebook fanpage. He has gone on to analyze and perform hundreds of Chopin’s compositions. It makes sense, that by studying all of a composer’s compositions, one would be able to have a deeper understanding of them. His lectures are a treasure to explore.  Enjoy the volume of performances and lectures available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGrjhXXqgP
 
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If you have not seen Seymour Bernstein’s “A Lesson Not to Miss,” be sure to share it with others. He discusses Chopin's E minor Prelude's interpretation.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRLBBJLX-dQ

For an interview with Andras Schiff discussing Bach, click on this link.
https://youtu.be/RxK1hY6vHNk

For Andras Schiff giving a Schubert Lecture Recital, click on this link.
https://youtu.be/ViZu8ATTqc8

Bradley Sowash has many videos available about teaching jazz. Here is the link to one of them with many recomendations for resources to teach beginners learning to improvise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTTeUGTDYs&list=PLS-9O7RWuXdffStVvhs5EJlI_ypMu_ynE&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdyntES7OY
Link to Mark Morley-Fletcher's podcast on Six Performance Anxiety Tips.


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