Teaching Music Improvisation with Technology

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation. What music technology does is establish a strong foundation for chord, scale, phrase, ear training, and listening exercises, creating a solid backdrop for student expression. As author and educator Mike
Fein shows, technology is a valuable tool that can be used effectively to supplement student practice time while also developing the skills necessary to become a proficient improviser. Complete with notated exercises, accompaniment tracks, and listening resources, this book gives teachers methods to
set their students free to make mistakes and to develop their own ear for improvisation at their own pace. Broken down into significant areas of music technology, each chapter focuses on developing a new skill and guides readers to tangible outcomes with the assistance of hands-on activities that
can be immediately implemented into the classroom. In addition to these hands-on activities, each chapter provides the reader with an iPad Connection to various iOS applications, which allows teachers and students another, albeit significantly less expensive, medium through which to learn, share,
and create art.

This book will appeal to music educators of students in grades K-12. It will serve collegiate music education courses secondarily, and will also appeal to those music educators who work with improvisation and technology.


Author: Michael Fein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/03/2017
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190628260

About the Author

Michael Fein is an instructor in music technology who teaches at Haverford High School, at The University of the Arts, and at Central Connecticut State University. He was named Teacher of the Year by TI: ME, the Technology Institute for Music Educators, and he is a frequent clinician at music
education conferences across the country.