Greetings !
Last year I started teaching a young student working on classical guitar. He's a very gifted player, very diligent, but I was surprised when his mother asked about music theory/music composition lessons. I've taught guitar to many students his age (11) and younger, but never theory/composition.
Thus far we've been working on simple exercises on notation skills, ear training, elementary harmony, analysis, etc. Unfortunately (?), all the material I have at hand is at least college-level reading. So I wondered if any KVR members can recommend relevant material for an intelligent 11-year old. Anything including a workbook is especially welcome, btw.
Otherwise, in lieu of any better recommendations I plan to just proceed with a course based on Piston, Kennan, and possibly Schoenberg. I'm also introducing him to the basics of using a DAW (Bitwig) and other music software for music study and composition. In case you're wondering, he's home-schooled, he does have the time for all this work.
TL;DR: I welcome any advice/recommendations on teaching music theory/composition to youngsters. TIA!
Best regards,
dp
teaching music composition to an 11-year old student
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1297 posts since 23 Jun, 2007 from Findlay OH USA
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- KVRAF
- 25053 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Well, people can be radically different individuals, so while his mother has a notion of a future, I would say interrogate his own idea of what he wants.
my mother, aspirational, had a definite idea of me as a classical guitarist and taking it seriousl, but I didn't commit for a few years and the teacher kind of just fired me. I got nothing except I don't think of this as a one size fits all thing at all. But what do I know.
my mother, aspirational, had a definite idea of me as a classical guitarist and taking it seriousl, but I didn't commit for a few years and the teacher kind of just fired me. I got nothing except I don't think of this as a one size fits all thing at all. But what do I know.
