How To Teach New Music--Wisdom From The Past

I found this the other day and thought it applied how to teach new music in worship.  It's from an Elementary teacher music prep course.

How T0 TEACH New Music

General Directions

1. Do not attempt to teach a song until you know it
yourself, until it has become a part of you.  (good stuff for a worship leader!)

2. Be sure that you have learned both words and
music correctly.

3. You expect the children to learn the songs. If you
hold a book, you do not set a good example.

4. Inspire enthusiasm.

5. Arouse and keep alive in the children the desire to
sing.

6. If you teach the spirit of the words, the expression
of the song will take care of itself.

7. Learn the whole song or hymn. Second and third
stanzas should be as carefully practiced as the first.

8. Lay the foundation of the habit of thinking. Ask
the children to listen, then to think before they sing.
Always avoid allowing them to imitate you.


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