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Steve Giddings
May 9, 20216 min read
32 Tips and Tricks for “Letting Go” of Your Creative Inhibitions
I’ve discovered a few things along the way that have helped me immensely in overcoming my fear of improvising to help me to “let go” and...
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Steve Giddings
Mar 18, 20188 min read
How to Include and Engage Horn Players in Your School Rock/Popular Ensemble
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...
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Steve Giddings
Jun 20, 201712 min read
How to Get YOUR Students Transcribing Melodies BY EAR by The End of Grade 3 (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series Last time, I gave you a list of activities, materials, and singing games that you would need to do...
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Steve Giddings
May 31, 20177 min read
How to Get YOUR Students Transcribing Melodies BY EAR by The End of Grade 3 (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series By the end of grade 3, I want my students writing down diatonic melodies as they hear them, with rhythm...
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Steve Giddings
Mar 30, 20178 min read
6 Steps to Composing With Your Students
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...
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