Sun March 11, 2018
Music Ed. Workshop – Dr. Chris Cayari
This workshop looked at the insecurities of students when uploading covers or arrangements of musical compositions to social media sharing networks online. Dr. Cayari discussed the aspects as to why students in his class were not comfortable with sharing their videos online as well as solutions we can take as teachers to find solutions that can help overcome their anxiety and nervousness. For example, he showed a certain scenario that took place in his classroom where two students, who played wind instruments, did not like the way their voices sounded but really wanted to perform a piano cover by a certain artist, although having no previous experience with playing the piano. This was solved by auto tuning their voices as well as both of them playing the piano at the same time, that one would play the melody in the right hand whilst the other play the chords in the left hand, still producing a wonderful arrangement. Another example was during one of their assignments in which the whole class had to submit a ukulele accompaniment over a chord progression to Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”. Dr. Cayari then combined these covers together and sang over it, eliminating insecurity of students having to produce covers of songs alone. In addition. Another assignment he used that interested me was his “vlogging” assignment where the students would have to produce covers of songs on a daily basis, recorded on a camera. I think what this did was that it got the student to become more comfortable being in front of a camera and less shy about having to share their exceptional talents with others. What I took away from his presentation was that it is essential to be creative in finding solutions to any problem, which I can use a teacher to add to adaptive teaching methods for each student.
After the presentation, we were able to use different kinds of music making applications, with the use of iPads. It was very interesting to see how technology can contribute to teaching pedagogy; how teachers are able to use these electronic applications to teach students about music. Dr. Cayari introduced these electronic applications in a fun creative way where we had to get into groups and experiment with what kind of music we were able to produce; it was almost as fun as playing on a real instrument. In addition, after reading the Williams article, this seemed to contradict the idea of how electronic instruments are not real instruments. Can electronic music making applications really not be considered music instruments? Why is it important to distinguish the difference between real instruments and the fake? Would there be a way to incorporate both in teaching? I would like to thank Dr. Cayari for coming to conduct such a wonderful workshop.
Music Ed. Workshop – Dr. Chris Cayari
This workshop looked at the insecurities of students when uploading covers or arrangements of musical compositions to social media sharing networks online. Dr. Cayari discussed the aspects as to why students in his class were not comfortable with sharing their videos online as well as solutions we can take as teachers to find solutions that can help overcome their anxiety and nervousness. For example, he showed a certain scenario that took place in his classroom where two students, who played wind instruments, did not like the way their voices sounded but really wanted to perform a piano cover by a certain artist, although having no previous experience with playing the piano. This was solved by auto tuning their voices as well as both of them playing the piano at the same time, that one would play the melody in the right hand whilst the other play the chords in the left hand, still producing a wonderful arrangement. Another example was during one of their assignments in which the whole class had to submit a ukulele accompaniment over a chord progression to Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”. Dr. Cayari then combined these covers together and sang over it, eliminating insecurity of students having to produce covers of songs alone. In addition. Another assignment he used that interested me was his “vlogging” assignment where the students would have to produce covers of songs on a daily basis, recorded on a camera. I think what this did was that it got the student to become more comfortable being in front of a camera and less shy about having to share their exceptional talents with others. What I took away from his presentation was that it is essential to be creative in finding solutions to any problem, which I can use a teacher to add to adaptive teaching methods for each student.
After the presentation, we were able to use different kinds of music making applications, with the use of iPads. It was very interesting to see how technology can contribute to teaching pedagogy; how teachers are able to use these electronic applications to teach students about music. Dr. Cayari introduced these electronic applications in a fun creative way where we had to get into groups and experiment with what kind of music we were able to produce; it was almost as fun as playing on a real instrument. In addition, after reading the Williams article, this seemed to contradict the idea of how electronic instruments are not real instruments. Can electronic music making applications really not be considered music instruments? Why is it important to distinguish the difference between real instruments and the fake? Would there be a way to incorporate both in teaching? I would like to thank Dr. Cayari for coming to conduct such a wonderful workshop.