


Making Musicians: A Teacher's Guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction
This book is no longer available through this website - please visit our publisher, GIA Music Education
Get a sample chapter here.
The best-selling book that is revolutionizing music classrooms and studios around the world.
Music has a crucial purpose - and we’ve lost it. It’s at the bedrock of what it means to be a healthy, successful person. As a music teacher, your ability to teach in a brain-smart way is going to make a huge difference not only to your students, but to your community and for the whole world.
Making Musicians: A Teacher's Guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction
This book is no longer available through this website - please visit our publisher, GIA Music Education
Get a sample chapter here.
The best-selling book that is revolutionizing music classrooms and studios around the world.
Music has a crucial purpose - and we’ve lost it. It’s at the bedrock of what it means to be a healthy, successful person. As a music teacher, your ability to teach in a brain-smart way is going to make a huge difference not only to your students, but to your community and for the whole world.
Sections and Chapters
Part I: What Makes a Musician
Chapter 1: Defining “Musician”
Chapter 2: Traits of a Musician
Part II: Music and the Brain
Chapter 3: Your Brain, Imagining Itself
Chapter 4: The Midbrain: Starting in the Middle
Chapter 5: The Forebrain: Understanding Understanding
Chapter 6: The Hindbrain: The Power Under the Hood
Chapter 7: States vs. Emotions: A User’s Manual for the Midbrain
Part III: The Structures of Learning
Chapter 8: Short Years: Teaching as Gardening
Chapter 9: Long Days: The Five Building Blocks to Sublimity
Part IV: Applied Music Psychology to Music Education
Chapter 10: Introduction to Sublimity
Chapter 11: Unconscious Incompetence: “I Can’t Know!”
Chapter 12: Conscious Incompetence: “It’s Too Hard!”
Chapter 13: Conscious Competence: “What, Again?!”
Chapter 14: Unconscious Competence: “Watch Me!”
Chapter 15: Sublimity Revisited: How to Access the “Zone”
Part V: Bringing Others on Board
Chapter 16: Helping Parents Succeed
Chapter 17: Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 18: Next Steps for Teachers
Case Study: Impact of Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction on a Long-Time Teacher’s Practice