Show Notes
Episode 5: How to Use Music to Teach Music
What’s the one teaching tool master piano teachers have used for decades - but many teachers forget about, underuse, or even feel slightly guilty about?
It’s using music to teach music.
In this episode, we unpack why fully-orchestrated backing tracks may be the most powerful - and most under-utilised - teaching tool available today.
We share the story of how we “stumbled” across this approach… and why modern technology has finally made this accessible and transformative for teachers everywhere.
You’ll learn why backing tracks are your active teaching partner! And how to use them effectively.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
(00:00) The Teaching Tool Master Teachers Have Always Used (But Most Forget)
(01:00) What “Using Music to Teach Music” Really Means
(06:11) The Skills that Happen as a Natural Consequence of Backing Tracks
(06:45) Why Back Tracks Never Really Took Off
(08:07) 8 Reasons Why Backing Tracks are the Greatest Undiscovered Teaching Tool
(08:33) Snowstorm - Our Multi-meter Piece in ⅞
(13:50) Video Sample of Forte Group Class Doing Chunk Learning
Once you realise that using backing tracks isn’t “cheating”, you’ll open up a whole new world that makes teaching fun, effortless, modern, and powerful! Listen to the episode to discover all the benefits.
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