Music Teacher as Music Producer

Abstract

Abstract Music Teacher as Music Producer (MTMP) is for music teachers who are looking to improve and build upon their daily practices in a contemporary and/or popular music setting where they are in charge of numerous modern bands. Few resources exist to describe what it is that a music teacher does in these types of classrooms. The approach to teaching outlined here is a way forward for our thinking that moves beyond music teacher as facilitator in some ways, suggesting that a music teacher’s primary purpose is to elevate their students’ creativities in both live performance and recording. While live performance conceptions have existed in music education for centuries, they are underdeveloped as far as thinking about modern bands goes. In this book, the author takes strides to remedy this shortcoming. Recording cover and original music could be half of what music teachers do in classrooms. Music classes could look a lot more like art class if teachers planned for them to be that way. This book unpacks how to think about and go about doing that.