The 3 training courses and 1 bonus course offer a wealth of material you can use as an extension to your normal teaching approach. Sessions will meet consecutively beginning January 9, 1pm EST, on zoom each Tuesday. Zoom links will be sent before each class on the day of the class. One price; full access to any and all classes.

LEVEL 1 Introduces the organization and concepts used in this book. Examples are:

• SPAARCK Learning
• The Steps to Integration
• Review, Prepare, Present, Practice
• Aesthetic education and Inter-related Arts education
• Somatic and mind-body concepts
• Influences from Suzuki, Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze, CAD, MLT, and child development.

LEVEL 2 Pre-Instrumental to Beginner. Level 2 prepares, presents and practices concepts in beat, rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, form, tempo, dynamics, and timbre through singing, clapping, gesture, movement games, folk dance, finger plays, circle games, and stories. Each example is demonstrated for its use in group music class and linked to the beginning of the instrument. Students learn to control their impulse  coordinate their bodies, self-regulate their emotions, and—most importantly—ignite a connection with music that is their own. Examples:

• Bordun
• Ostinato
• Solfeggio
• Magic rhythm and melodic patterns
• Bringing ease in musical response to the instrument

LEVEL 3 Beginner through Intermediate level. Generally corresponding to Suzuki volumes 1 and 2, this level includes key changes, mode, transposition, improvisation, reading, ensemble playing, and more advanced technique on the instrument. We also continue ours and our students’ awareness and attunement to themselves as they play, maintaining optimal functioning and continual joy through curiosity, exploration, experimentation, discovery and intentional integration. As we move through this level we review what is known and prepare for the new. Full embodiment of musical concepts and creative response transforming into the ways of musiking on the instrument: imitation, memorization, reading, improvisation, composition, and performing with others.

• Major and minor modes
• Tonic-Dominant harmony
• Ground bass
• More complex rhythms, such as dotted notes, and a wider melodic range
• Opportunities to develop instrumental skills, such as vibrato and shifting
   

Bonus Session: This is your time to get what you need out of this course! We take your studio situation, your students, and your teaching goals and support them through the use of this book. Want to integrate improvisation? Use more movement in your lessons? Or, do you want to learn how to use some mindfulness into your teaching? This is to time to create the opportunity for your students to grow musically in new ways using the materials in this book!

In using the ebook:

• Keys align within and between instruments for these tunes, so they can be used as same or cross-instrumental repertoire.
• Opportunities to experience selections as they were originally intended, including cultural context, original source, possible variants, language, and dance/dramatic re-enactment. This preserves the integrity of the culture from which it came and the music itself as it was intended to be experienced.
  
• The scales listed under “Magic Melodic Patterns” will be reviewed for their many uses for improvisation, reading, ear training, composition, harmony and variation.
  
• The Appendix offers the many collaborative possibilities within these resources. Whether you are looking for canons to play, same-instrument ensemble opportunities or multiple instrument combinations, the means are available to you within this book.
  
• The Index is a fantastic resource for finding specific musically or technically-related material, such as melodic patterns, fingering, bowing patterns, and so on.

I am truly honored and thrilled to share this material with you and for you to make it part of your own teaching repertoire!