Freedom and Expressiveness Teaching Style

Snapshot:
If you’re a Freedom and Expressiveness teacher, you thrive on spontaneity and adaptability. Your lessons are fluid, shaped by the moment and the student’s energy. Mistakes aren’t failures, they’re opportunities to explore and discover something new.

Era Inspiration:
Like the improvisational spirit of Jazz, your teaching style celebrates creativity and collaboration. You encourage students to experiment, take risks, and find their own voice through music.

Teaching Tips:

• Practise improvisation drills:

  Give students a simple chord progression and encourage melody-making without sheet music.

• Embrace “mistakes” as material:

  Show how a wrong note can lead to a new creative idea.

• Rotate roles:

  Let students lead a section of the lesson to build ownership and confidence.

• Play call-and-response games:

  Develop listening skills in a fun, interactive way.

• Encourage genre fusion:

  Introduce elements from other styles to keep creativity flowing.

Fun Fact:
Jazz musicians often learn by “sitting in” at gigs, picking up techniques and ideas in real time from the musicians around them.