What is Critical Listening? Critical listening skills are the skills students (and people) should be using to actively listen to a piece of music and pick it apart into components. In this episode, we begin to dig into what it means to critically listen to something, and how you, as the music teacher, is responsible for helping guide students into that ability.

Using Uplevel U: Music's newly released "Critical Listening for the General Music Classroom" resource, it has never been easier to help students attain this skill and for you to enjoy their journey.

Special Announcement! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors ⁠has been released! Check it out today!

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First, big apologies for the break. There were definitely some extenuating circumstances. The last few weeks have taught me some serious life lessons, and I want to share that with you in this episode, from the point of view of the busy teacher.

This content really wasn't what I had in mind, obviously, as you will understand, but the message and the three life lessons I'll be speaking about I hope will inspire you to do the same when life throws you curveballs.

Special Announcement! ⁠⁠⁠Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors has been released! Check it out today!

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Today's episode focuses a little bit on the dire circumstance of vocal health in today's students. Like many other health issues, it's easy to say that children are a little immortal, or that "it won't happen to them" or that it is likely to only happen to the singers that tour, rehearse and practice for hours a day.

But that isn't true.

Isn't that what happens during the last few weeks of the musical? Aren't students singing for hours each day?

Voice issues and vocal nodes are issues that can happen to anyone, and it's our responsibility as music teachers to help students sing safely and pain-free, and to help them understand what that all means.

Special Announcement! ⁠⁠How to Teach Your Students to Use Fakebooks and Lead Sheets⁠ has been released as another one of our Free or Low-Cost Resources.

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Special Announcement! ⁠How to Teach Your Students to Use Fakebooks and Lead Sheets has been released as another one of our Free or Low-Cost Resources.

Today I take you through what it's all about, why it is a helpful resource for teachers to have and what possibilities it opens up for students to create.

Now that this resource has been released, the focus is now set on our next course which will focus on vocal tone development, vocal health and other vocal/choral techniques for the singers you teach. The approach that makes this different is that this is aimed toward the teacher that did not have as much vocal training themselves, or that do not feel as confident teaching voice and tone development as they wish they had, especially since teaching a topic you cannot see, and can barely feel is just so subjective! This course will break into that and give you what you need to become confident with teaching voice.

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Special Announcement! Character Development and Stage Presence for the Dramatic Arts has been released! This episode discusses some of the details of the course. As a special thank you for listening to this podcast, use the coupon code, StealTheShow10 to get $10 off!

So what's next for Uplevel U: Music? What topics are going to be covered in future episodes? Listen and see and have a chance to voice your opinion of what content you'd like to see at Karen@musicroombuffalo.com.

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We've gotten a lot done in the last month!

First, introducing our first free resource "The Metronome Game", where you can now gamify metronome skills to help students transition to using metronomes consistently, correctly and without frustration.

Now we are working to get our next course up and running. "Character Development and Stage Presence" is set to be released around the end of march. In this podcast episode, I wanted to discuss some of the reason for the need for this course, where the ideas came from, and what the results of some of the ideas are.

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Big news coming! We are about ready to release our first course of 2025! It's called "My Orchestra Doesn't Squeak: Perfect Technique by Middle School"

It's exactly what you're hoping it is. The course includes the teaching sequence and objectives for the first 7+ orchestra group, troubleshooting, tried-and-true instructional delivery, plenty of photo and video footage to see the correct way to do everything for string technique. There's so much more even than that!

The course is set to be released the week of February 17th and the live course catalog (link below) will be updated to include it!

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Happy New Year! Today it seemed like a good idea to take a break from professional development and talk about other needs for teachers- health.

How are your New Year's resolutions going? Are some related to mental health at all? Last episode was about physical health and I was going to have a section on mental health and realized I should just include it in another episode, so here we are!

The topics we discus in this episode are identifying what about mental health needs changing and list-making for the changes and positives that don't need changing. We also discuss meditation and how to properly handle self care in your life so that it is effective.

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