Sweet!

So...on Fridays I'm teaching a music club at a middle school. It's a charter school so they haven't had a music program before.

The first day was awesome. They were paying attention and participating and they were like enjoying it. The next weeks weren't quite as good. But there has been a couple of kids that have come all three times (that's how many times I've done it by the way).

It's great experience on how to manage middle schoolers. It's hard though because the students are grades 6-9. They're all at different levels. I'm slowly finding things that work though. My game, which I like to call Double Treble, worked pretty well.

This week, the plan it to use rap/popular music to teach about rhythm. I'm going old school with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Run DMC and all. We're going to try some beat boxing and double treble again. Hopefully it goes well.

I feel like this would be easier to figure out if I didn't only do it once a week. It just seems like a slow learning curve. I am going to observe a band teacher today. We'll see how this guy does it.

I'll keep you up to date.