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045 - The Blues Composition Project
In February of this year, I organized a month-long, studio-wide composition project based on the 12-bar blues.I got the idea for this project from a session I attended at NCKP last summer, led by Leila Viss and Bradley Sowash. Leila shared how she's structured a blues composition project for her students and I thought it would be a good way to acknowledge and celebrate Black History Month and incorporate composition for my elementary and intermediate students. Today, I'm sharing a behind-the-scenes look at how I organized this project in my studio, how I structured and guided the composition…
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