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Music in the Foreign Language Classroom: How & Why It Works

We have recently adopted a new approach to the kind of content that will be appearing on music2work2. One of the things that Charlotte and I agreed upon at the beginning of the year was that we wanted to share more about how music really can affect us all. We're using a new tool - Scoop.it which helps us stay on top of all the information out there - and when we find something that we think is relevant and that you'd find interesting, we'll post it here on the blog. We're also sending out relevant tweets and posting separate content to the new Facebook page.

I thought this article on using music in the classroom was a perfect addition to the site - any teachers out there who would like to do this and would like some music2work2 for their classrooms - get in touch - we're always happy to help out the Teachers - without you - where would any of us be!

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You might benefit from using background music in your foreign language classroom as a way to help students focus and concentrate while making the learning experience enjoyable. Music has been proven as a ...
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Via Scoop.it - Background Music

Stirling Brig - Warm Up

I'm working on a blues piece in 57 bpm for Nath - have some chops to work up!

Was riffing off this old Stirling Brig groove - it's a simple Em / D thing with the odd C / Cmaj7 thrown in for fun every now and then. Was playing around with it on the guitar earlier this evening - this of course sounds nothing like it but it was a good place to be for a while. Gonna enjoy this one...;-)

Listen!

AudioBoo tracks are just the iphone capturing what's playing in the room - not terribly concerned about audio here - just ideas!