How Do You Use Music Teaching Aids?
Whether you are teaching the history of music or music theory, you can’t do your job without a variety of music teaching aids. Music is, above all, a visceral experience. To understand it, your students have to hear it, play it, and see how it affects the imaginations of great thinkers and artists. Your students have to feel the power of music in order to understand the structure and history behind it. Use music to introduce the lesson. Playing something truly inspiring, or a piece that your students may not have been exposed to before, will get them into the lesson. You can use the musical teaching aids to stimulate discussion about the subject and get the students thinking about what you are going to teach them. Use instruments as music teaching aids. If you can play a little piano, you can use it to illustrate points about melody, harmony and many other musical topics. You can also use instruments to discuss the influence of one type of music on the development of another. For examp
