​Special one off workshops to introduce new Musical Futures approaches, materials and resources designed to develop learner autonomy, enjoyment and creativity. 

Explore new Musical Futures materials, resources and approaches designed to develop greater learner autonomy, enjoyment and creativity.  Based on the work of Professor Lucy Green and from her book Hear, Listen, Play – How to Free Your Students Aural, Improvisation and Performance Skills
The workshop and supporting classroom resources explores:
  • It's the way we learn - how students (and teachers) identify notes and chords, how we learn and play by ear using chords  and how our musical brain responds?  as the title suggests start by hearing,  then through listen and to playing, making and creating
  • Composing and improvising - warm ups and games to establish a whole class ethos for music making and creative risk taking 
  • Create whole class workshop music making  from scratch, involving improvisation across a range of musical styles
  • Use simple online resources that allow students to collaborate, record, share and publish their work
  • Includes ALL new classroom resources that provide your students with the experiences that need to allow them to play by ear identifying notes, melodies, chords and progressions
  • Lunch and refreshments are included

Dates and Locations

PERTH   Perth CBD – Friday July 1, 2022
ADELAIDE    Glenelg – Monday July 4, 2022
MELBOURNE    Melbourne CBD – Tuesday July 12, 2022
BRISBANE     Bald Hills – Friday July 15, 2022

About Hear|Listen|Play|Create

​Hear, Listen, Play! is a book written by Lucy Green for all music teachers who are curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular music. Based on research that built on her previous work into how popular musicians learn in the informal realm, Lucy applies many aspects of their learning practices to three main areas within music education. It first tackles one-to-one specialist instrumental lessons before turning to ensemble work such as band and orchestra and finally to the generalist or specialist classroom.

This book is not a prescription for one particular way of teaching or learning, and it does not aim to critique, replace or change the excellent practices that are already on-going in the diverse world of music education and pedagogy. Rather, it offers something which is likely to be new to many teachers, and which they can add in to the mix.
In her book, Lucy examines how students in different contexts learn to play by ear. By replicating the original task used with students, our HLP workshop helps teachers to understand how they play by ear, raises awareness of other ways of learning music aurally and considers strategies to support students to engage with this method of musical learning which is central to the Musical Futures Informal Learning approach. ​

Workshop leaders

Anna Gower (UK/Thailand ) Head of Training and Development, Musical Futures International
Ken Owen – Director of Musical Futures Australia and Musical Futures International

Fees

$255.00 per teacher (inc GST) includes lunch, refreshments and a suite of take home resources.  Second and subsequent teachers from the same school $145.00 per teacher inc GST.
​Registration is essential