I first heard of the SmartMusic Program in eighth grade. My bad director was a recent graduate and fresh into the teaching world and she was an avid supporter of more modern methods of music education. In the beginning, I myself was not a fan of the program. I and my peers in the band had found the program to be difficult to handle without the direct supervision of our director. However, after some time had passed, the program became more familiar to us and it was drastically improving our performance in ensemble.
The program itself is an excellent method of teaching in that it combines musical practice with the precision of a computer program. Each mistake made is shown to the performer with crystal clarity. This helped us all see exactly what our problem was and allowed us to fix it for the next time we performed. This also allowed those who had a learning aptitude toward visual learning to actually see their mistakes instead of just hearing them. Also, the program can be used at home to practice. This eliminates the variable of at home experience. There would no longer be the gamble of whether or not there is a person with previous musical knowledge there to listen to a practice session. The SmartMusic will listen and it will always be able to identify the mistakes and display them with near one-hundred percent accuracy.
Since becoming an aspiring music educator at Clarion University, I have been using the SmartMusic Program to learn new instruments from the ground up. It has been a near indispensible tool in my repertoire. It has helped me the most with the glockenspiel and trumpet. These methods have been very useful to me and I plan to use them in my own classes when I graduate.
Since becoming an aspiring music educator at Clarion, I have used the SmartMusic Program to help with my method courses from the ground up. It has been a near indispensable tool in my repertoire.
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