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ASU Adult Strings with Marg Schmidt and Scott Glasser
Marg and Scott’s Summer ASU Adult Strings Teacher Class is always a hit. We discussed String Riffs Music, Self Publishing, and composition ideas. These amazing teachers helped to refine my new piece “Pupusas Especiales. Wonderful Zoom sharing this summer
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String Riffs Reading Session OSU-String Teacher’s Workshop, shared this with participants. Check it out.
Make Music Day at Stanton’s Sheet Music
StringRiffs Mingo the Dingo from level Beginning to 3 String Riffs Quintet plays String Riffs music available through Stantons.com or StringRiffs.com
Hootenanny Flex-Pack a hit with Linfield 3-5 graders
Dear Karen, Thank you so much for sharing these pieces with me! I passed out Hootenanny to my kids yesterday and they LOVED it!! It is the first “real” piece of music they have tried (3-5 grade beginners – up until now we’ve just been playing unison exercises from...
String Riffs Scale Sheets as Tools (Affordable, too)
IMG_0201 String Riffs One Octave Scale Sheets - C Major thru 4 Sharps and Flats work as tools for teachers and students. They can be creatively adapted to your needs. Each one is different, each one works different skills.
My first Zoom Session Q&A for OSUSTW
What an experience to be the focus of a Zoom Q&A about 3 videos I created for OSU’s String Teacher Workshop 2020. Everyone brought good questions and opinions to the discussion. There is anxiety over the 2020 school music start. Please give orchestra/band teachers...
Composition Zoom with ASU Adult Strings and Dr Marg Schmidt/Scott Glasser
Honored to be asked by Scott Glasser and Marg Schmidt to share Thoughts about Composition for String Orchestra with ASU’s Adult String Education Class regarding leveling of music, parameters in composition, and score study of some of my pieces. We are “Zoom”ing this...
OSU String Teacher Workshop is on!
So excited to share String Teaching ideas with the 240 participants of OSU String Teacher Workshop. Dr Bob Gillespie and his amazing team have created a virtual workshop in a very short time. It is interactive, has hang out time, Chat sessions, Q & A’s with...
New this Spring: I Saw a Fox, Sundown Saddle Time, and Multi-Level String Riffs Volume One
String Riffs New Music: I Saw a Fox - Level 1 - Multi-Level (Tune, Challenge, Opens, with Accompaniment) Sundown Saddle Time - Level 3 (Includes “The Ash Grove”) A long Ride with the campfire in the middle. Syncopation, pizzicato, and a fiddle tune to boot. Every tune...