My course involves teaching music theory and songwriting to mainly inexperienced beginners. A very challenging prospect indeed!
I start with very basic theory lessons, on the music staff dry erase board and from the piano. Most of my students have no previous music experience, so it's a pretty level playing field for all of them. The very nature of my lectures is visual and auditory, not much in-or-out-of-class reading assignments given. Those students not comfortable learning in these 2 styles find it more difficult to absorb the new material, not to mention the general difficulty of learning music as an… >>>
