How to Do Assessments

How do you do assessments….especially in classes of 30 – 40? When I was teaching at Ernest Becker Middle School in Las Vegas in 1996-2002, I had many of the same questions. In large classes, it is difficult to do assessment unless you have a plan. In my...

D&A – Design-Driven Guitar Gear

RKS, an award winning Southern Californian design firm that created its own unique and highly regarded line of guitars in 2002, launches D&A Guitar Gear, reinventing the business of guitar accessories. RKS started with a simple question: “Why can’t there be guitar...

What I Have Learned #1

What I Have Learned About Teaching Beginning Guitar in the Classroom by Bill Swick Lesson 1 The more students there are in the class, the slower the pace, the more times it is necessary to repeat things, and modeling and classroom practice become of the utmost...

Teaching Tuning

Tuner or not, students must listen. How do you teach pitch perception? This is definitely one of the most challenging things to teach…and learn! In my rookie days , I felt teaching tuning was the primary objective, but I soon realized that not everyone is ready...

eMedia Music Releases EarMaster Pro 6

Seattle, WA – November 13, 2012. eMedia Music Corp., publisher of the world’s best-selling series of music tutorial software, announces the North American release of EarMaster Pro 6 through its partnership with EarMaster ApS of Denmark. The new version adds...