Join us for an engaging and innovative session that explores how the use of technology can transform your approach to teaching and learning. This session will go beyond traditional note-reading and fingerings, focusing on strategies to develop tone quality, overall musicianship, improvisation, and student engagement through interactive tools and technology. This clinic is designed for music educators at all levels who want to maximize their students’ musical growth while fostering a love for music. Whether you’re teaching a beginning band, orchestra, choir or an advanced ensemble, you’ll leave with practical, game-changing strategies that can immediately impact your classroom. Let’s move beyond the notes and create a more dynamic, engaging, and effective music-learning experience!

After teaching instrumental music for 38 years, it is easy to believe the adage that says “If I only knew then what I know now!” The focus of this clinic presentation is to discuss the evolution of my teaching methods and give my insights into ways that can be more effective and more successful in the teaching of beginning instrumentalists. During this clinic, participants will hear ideas about how to teach the fundamentals of tone production, audiation, the mother-tongue approach, rote learning of the first 5 notes, echo playing, and other basic concepts. Giving beginners a great start helps develop great ensembles.