Letting students feel unique, be part of the music

Before this workshop, I never think about perform with multimedia. Now I already think about I can hold a concert to make my students interact with some videos or audios. I can give them some children’s story books, and I can read that to them or make some video to them, and even have them arrange music for the story. No matter what instrument they use, I think they can enjoy this. Because I only use very traditional ways to teach, especially nowadays children learn everything from internet, tv, movies, so the traditional way makes them bored. If I can use multimedia to stimulate their creativity, it might be good.

If I can hold a concert with multimedia, I even can let them choreoraph some movements and combine very traditional and very modern ways to present everything.

Then maybe more people would like to get involved with classical music, which usually requires a lot of knowledge. If we can use multimedia to expose them to classical music without lecturing, they can just feel it and understand it more, especially children.  Otherwise, it’s just so boring to them.

I saw a lot of teachers, they teach their students by lecturing, tell them the history of music, music theory, and so I saw a lot of children get bored, space out, or give up.

Not to say they should not learn history or theory, but they need a way to become interested. With multimedia, they can feel they are unique and are a part of the music and the art.

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Children don’t have that many life experiences, sometimes they play some difficult, complicated musical pieces, but they don’t understand how they should perform with feeling. For instance, if I tell them to play with joy, excitement, or sorrow, they don’t really know what to do because they do not have such experiences. But if I reference moods from movies, they might be able to get their own feeling from those stories.