Are You Frustrated?
String teachers! Are you discouraged by a lockstep approach using the same songs over and over without a way to adapt the method to the needs of your students?
Do you lack a system for teaching your students how to hear in their head what they see on the page, as a guide for their fingers?
Early in my teaching career I felt a desire to solve these problems, knowing that the ability to hear in my head was something I didn’t learn until my college years. When I found the system for teaching music developed by Zoltan Kodaly, I knew I had found a way to help my students become better musicians, not just instrument-playing machines.
Intermuse Academy gave me the tools to teach these skills to my students. No longer were they dependent on hearing a passage before they could play it. Helping them develop music literacy based on their ability to hear with an educated ear has been a joyful experience. I’m teaching them music, not just the violin!
Join us this summer, June 6 – 17 at Brigham Young University, Intermuse Academy to participate in the Kodaly vision. Come for a fun and intense experience! You will receive an effective string curriculum and expand your own skills in musicianship, pedagogy and conducting.
Edgar Willems said, “Bad musicians cannot hear what they are playing; mediocre ones could hear it, but they don’t listen; average musicians hear what they just played; only good musicians hear what they are going to play.”