Tips for Teachers #1 - Getting going, using improvisation

Pro Corda Lesson time: (3min 24sec)

The objective of your first session with students is to get them to experience small ensemble music right from the start, using improvisation techniques. To do so, you must make them comfortable and give them a "music blanket of security".

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Pro Corda

Pro Corda Trust is a music and educational charity established in 1969 founded by Pamela Spofforth MBE and Elizabeth Hewlins MBE and its purpose is ‘to provide for and conduct the education of young persons and others in the whole art, philosophy and theory of music, particularly chamber music’. Pro Corda is the largest music organisation of its kind and is recognised as the UK’s centre of excellence for ensemble training.

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