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Nate and Helen’s new book cover If you are looking to decolonize your music room or provide a richer musical experience for your...

This blog post is the second in a series of posts on a song writing unit I delivered for Grade 9 English Language Arts. It is also very...

8 Technology and Online Learning Resources from Steve’s Music Room. To help with your tech or remote learning and in-person technology...

Here are some simple actions you can take or phrases you can say or think to foster a safe place to explore and experiment with music in...

Some History: I began thinking about the concept of a “Continuum of Creativity” after watching Adam Neely’s video “Why No Rap Covers?” In...

A version of this blog post has been approved for republication in Technology for Unleashing Creativity, written by Steve Giddings and...

Technology can sometimes complicate things but it can also make things much easier for everyone. I know that getting your learners to be...

So you have a small class with mostly horns but a couple of kids play guitar and drums, or a group with lots of rhythm players and a...

Ask a former concert band learner if they still play their instrument after high school. Chances are 80–90% of them will tell you that...

Who says you can’t play an E chord in the key of C? Bach maybe? Who decides what sounds good? Bach, perhaps again. We often forget that...

Here is a PDF of this blog post (with pictures and easier to print if need be). In other years, I did a lot of explicit rhythm practice...

Lately, at MCS we have been working on learning the guitar. Before this, we had done recorder and many of the students learned what C...