Music Teacher PD & Student Workshops
What if your students were as great at practicing as you are at teaching them? Gregg works with your faculty and your students in the same visit.
The Real Problem
Why do a few students play well week after week while others put in the same hours and still have spots that come apart on stage? Every studio and every music department runs into this.
Research on learning gives a clear answer. Talent matters far less than we were taught, as long as a student works the way the brain actually learns best.
How to work while practicing is the single biggest factor in playing well. It is also the one thing we usually leave students to figure out on their own.
Professional Development
How the brain learns best is sitting in the psychology and neuroscience journals. Very little of it has reached the teaching world, and that makes sense, because those of us who teach are a long way from that research.
Every good teacher already does some of this by instinct. The great ones do most of it. Few know the names for the pieces, or how they fit into one model a student can run alone in a practice room.
Gregg has researched and used these methods in classrooms and studios for years. Faculty sessions lay out the whole model in plain language, with time for your students and your repertoire, and he consults on curriculum design as well.
What A Visit Includes
The science of practice, translated for the studio, the rehearsal room, and the stage.
Talks students actually sit up for, then a chance to feel the method work on their own playing.
One stuck passage fixed in about 20 minutes, with the reason for every move explained while it happens.
Help building this into the teaching you already do.
From a 60 minute conference lecture or keynote up to a 10 day residency, with rich breakout sessions in between.
The teaching was powerful because you applied the principles into practical lesson situations. Teachers and students alike were significantly helped.
Student Workshops And The Practiclass
Student sessions start with the ideas. Deliberate practice, growth mindset, a little brain science, and why hard work on its own keeps letting them down. Then they try it in the room, because feeling the change is what makes them trust the process.
A Practiclass is a masterclass on practicing, for any instrument or voice. We take a section that has been going wrong for weeks or months, and in about 20 minutes it comes out cleaner, faster, and easier to play. The audience hears the teaching principle behind each step as it happens, so they can use it in their own practice that night.
If that much can change in 20 minutes on the first try, it is worth asking what every practice session and every rehearsal could be doing.
After The Visit
Dr. Brenda Brenner, Executive Associate Dean, Chair of Music Education, Co-Director, IU String Academy, Indiana University at Bloomington
Edward Charity, Violin Performance Major, Florida State University
Dr. Stephen Mattingly, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Book a single session, a full workshop day, or a residency. Tell us your instruments, your calendar, and what your students keep getting stuck on.
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