National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Today is Canada’s very first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As music teachers, we can play a small but vital part in the work we need to do to honour the … Read More
Have you ever wondered how to incorporate relevant indigenous content into your string classroom? As part of this week’s posts celebrating Canada’s first National Day for Truth & Reconciliation on September 30th, I want to introduce you indigenous string … Read More
Creating an Authentic Aural Traditional Music Experience Fiddle tunes are short, catchy and pretty easy to memorize. When you put a fiddle tune in front of students, they just can’t wait to play it, and the violas, cellos, and … Read More
The Learning Potential of the Humble Fiddle Tune When I first moved back to the big city and started teaching string classes again, I wasn’t sure how I was going to approach teaching fiddle tunes to my students aside … Read More
The Practice of Celtic Music This is Part 2 in Fiddle Tune Season, a series about how to teach Celtic fiddle music to your violin, viola, cello and bass students. Many string players are curious about Celtic fiddle music and … Read More
It’s January and that means… it’s Fiddle Tune season in my classroom! Every year at this time, in all my classes, we get out the fiddle tunes. I choose this time because it tends be down-time from school performances, so … Read More
Looking for fiddle tunes to teach the class? Need tunes transposed for viola, cello and bass? Did you know that there are many, many skills you can teach through fiddle tunes? Read about all the great reasons to teach fiddle … Read More
