While I have been teaching at Bridgham I think one of the main things I have been focusing on myself has been Rodriguez along with Delpit each week. I want the students that I work with to think I am their role model when it comes to music. Each time when I go in there I feel really confident in myself that I can help out these children with anything when it comes to music. I treat it as its my own private lesson because I get to go into a practice room with them and teach them anything that they want to know about, rhythms, scales, and a whole bunch of stuff. Also, I even give them assignments to do for when i come back the next time so I can brighten their minds when it comes to playing music. I tell them to practice multiple things each time so when i come in the next week they are prepared to play what i tell them to play. If I find that they are having trouble with it, I play it for them and then they follow along with me.
Since they like the way I play I use a different method of teaching them something. I tell them if you play this rhythm correctly I will play you a song and jazz it up a little bit. So one of my students was like "Oh man that terrible." But he went on to play the rhythms correctly and I got to play him one of my favorite songs, and taught him a little bit about improvisation. He was in total shock on how i played the song, he was like i want to be like you when i grow up to be a musician. I was like wow no one has ever said to that to me before and i was really happy about that comment. I asked them do you guys consider me a role model in a way and they said yes. I couldn't have felt better about myself because this has been one thing I been striving for since i been at my school.
In conclusion I had a real great time with my students and I felt awful leaving the school today because I wanted to teach them so much more stuff about music because my students were really bright kids and they have a great future a head of them in music if they continue to listen to me and remember what i taught them about music. I always told them practicing is the best thing you guys can do because if you don't practice your not going to sound good in the future and you will lose part of your endurance. If I were to go back there in a year I would hope to see the skills i taught them still intact because I worked real hard with them to hope that one day they will succeed in their life with music. I am going to miss going there but I am glad it prepared me for the real world.
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