Exploring Musical Menus: Improvising in a Group Setting
Friday, January 24, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Description
Looking for ways to include improvisation in your music classes but have no idea where to begin? This session will teach you how to do just that! From teaching students to solo over 12-bar blues to group improvising harmonies to playing colors and feelings to experimenting with conduction, you will leave this session with lots of ideas of how to inspire creativity in your students! Bring an instrument to experience these ideas for yourself!
Speakers
Amy Marr
Learning Objective 1
Discover how to create an environment in which both soloists and groups can experience uninhibited self-expression in front of their peers.
Learning Objective 2
Learn a multi-level, multi-step group improvisation approach to teach improvising solos and accompaniments to solos, especially in a 12-bar blues setting.
Learning Objective 3
Acquire various ways to improvise as a group, ranging from chord-stacking to conduction, which can also serve as the basis for group compositions.
Session Level
Elementary, Middle School/Junior High, High School
Session Type
Lecture