065 - How to Build a Musical Vocabulary Using Tonal Pattern Cards

Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning · Oct 11, 2023 · 15m

I received an email from a listener recently, a piano teacher in North Carolina. She had purchased a set of my tonal pattern cards and was looking for ideas and suggestions for how to incorporate them into her teaching this year.This prompted me to sit down and think through the importance of building a musical vocabulary (rhythm and tonal), how we learn to read music, and creative ways to engage our students through listening, pattern recognition, matching, imitating, and improvising using a basic set of tonal pattern cards.In this episode, you'll learn about the mental process behind how we…