Teaching / Music Musings
As a Teacher
Suz shares an expansive approach to playing with the language of music (on piano, voice, guitar & other instruments) by integrating diverse learning styles—students explore how to speak and understand music by ear (oral tradition), how to read and write it (written tradition), and how to use chord theory to understand how songs are made. For example, is Fur Elise hundreds of notes—or a few simple chords? See her Music Musings Factsheets to learn more.
Suz factsheets are now available at Scribd.com; you can also find her free instructional videos on her YouTube channel and at eHow.com.
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Download Suz’s free factsheets for more music fun
Suz’s Music Musings factsheets can be downloaded right here (in .PDF format).
Learn how to:
• play a melody by ear, using just 7 simple piano notes
• instantly make up songs using just 3 chords
• understand how songs are made
• play 1950s songs using just 4 chords
• easily create a song’s feel & style with bass lines (made out of chords!)
• improvise (make up melodies) using a simple - but really groovy — blues scale!
• have oodles of fun with music RIGHT AWAY!
“Suz invites people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to find the music uniquely in them. She believes that music belongs to everyone, not just “the professionals.”
New How To Articles by Suz on eHow
Suz now has free educational articles on the website eHow.com. Included are short videos (1 to 3 minutes), graphics and step-by-step instructions — in short, easy lessons — about guitar, piano, and music related topics . Check out the titles below, and click on ones you’d like to learn about. Contact Suz if you have suggestions for topics you’d be interested in learning more about.
GUITAR HOW-TO ARTICLES:
1. How To Play a C Scale on the Guitar (Video version)
2. How to Play a C Scale and related Chords on Guitar (Guitar Tab)
3. How to Play a Blues Scale on the Guitar (Video version)
4. How to play the 1, 4 and 5 blues scales on the guitar (Video version)
5. How to Play “Mission Impossible” on Guitar (Video)
6. How to Play “Another One Bites The Dust” on Guitar (Video)
7. How to Play “Crazy Train” on Guitar (Video)
8. How to Play “Funky Town” on Guitar (Video)
9. How to Play “Money” by Pink Floyd on Guitar (Video)
10. How to Play “Secret Agent Man” on Guitar (Video)
11. How to Play “Venus” on Guitar (Riff + chords) (Video)
PIANO HOW-TO ARTICLES:
1. How to Learn Music 3 Ways (VIDEO)
2. How to Think about Notes of the Scale (Illustrated)
3. How to Identify Piano Note Names(Illustrated)
4. How to Name the Notes on a Treble Staff (Illustrated)
5. How to Play a Blues Scale on the Piano (illustrated)
6. How to play the C Blues Scale on the Piano (Video)
7. How to play the F Blues Scale on the Piano (Video)
8. How to play the G Blues Scale on the Piano (Video)
9. How to Play the C, F and G Blue Scales on Piano (Illustrated)
10. How to play an 8-bar blues on piano using 3 chords (Video)
11. How to play “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits” on Piano (Video)
12. How to Play a 1950s chord progression on Piano
13. How to Play a Melody Using Just 7 Notes (Video)
14. How to Play “Amazing Grace” Using just Three chords (Video)
15. How to Know why a Blues Scale sounds “Bluesy” (Video)
GENERAL MUSIC HOW-TO ARTICLES:
1. How to Transpose Chords to a New Key (includes handy chart)
2. How to Make a Singer’s Sore Throat Remedy (Illustrated)
3. How to Use a Music Production Library (Video)
4. How to Create a Set List for Your Musical Performance (Illustrated)
5. How to understand chords with 7, 9, 11 or 13 in the name (VIDEO
6. How to Choose Music for a Memorial Service or Funeral
7. How to Choose the Perfect Music for Your Wedding
8. How to Scat Sing and Improvise using the Blues Scale
9. How to Recycle CDs and DVDs (and related packaging)
10. How to Copyright Your Songs (Singly or as a Collection)
11. How to Work Together in a Band (different learning styles)