Trumpet and choir lesson

Choir warm up and trumpet lesson

Last class I gave a trumpet “first” lesson and then gave a warm up high school choir lesson. Both were very interesting experiences and it was a fun time doing both. The assignment was to teach about five minutes of a intro to trumpet lesson, (professor Schneider would be the fifth grader) and a high school choir warm up lesson, (class would be the choir).

The trumpet lesson did not go exactly how I wanted it to go. I realize now that I spent too much time in the beginning explaining the trumpet and talking about it. I also think I spent too much time on correct posture and breathing. Students will probably start to loose interest if they don't even see their instrument on the first lesson. In my lesson the five minutes were up as soon as I pulled the trumpet out. So definitely next time I would start with buzzing on the mouth piece and start teaching the student how to play easy notes .

The choir lesson was very interesting. I was never in choir in school so at first when I got to class I was not sure if what I had was going to be good enough. I went 4^th or 5^th and I noticed that a lot of students in the class had the same ideas that I did and that made me feel good about my warm up lesson. Something I did not use a lot of was the piano and it was because I was unsure if I could pull it off. The piano actually helped me with the lesson and it was not as hard as I thought to play scales and sing solfege and major chords with the class.