Category: Education

  • One of the biggest challenges I found from my days as a school music teacher was making important concepts come to life and really be relevant to kids.  Finding examples of these concepts in their pop music (with school-appropriate lyrics, of course) was one of the ways I found to make these vital connections and…

  • I remember my first day of college, taking a seat in the music major theory course and being surrounded by fresh-faced idealistic young musicians like myself.  There must have been more than 30 of us in that little room.  Jump ahead to the end of my sophomore year and there were five of us left…