The Business Side of Teaching School Music: Working with Administrators
Instrumental teachers have a keen interest in professional development - studying conducting, instructional techniques, ensemble development and literature. Despite this commitment to professional growth, the thrill of having an outstanding ensemble eludes many...
Why Music Technology?
Students consume their music with technology; either on an iPod, through a music streaming service, or by watching YouTube. As educators, we begin with the knowledge a student possesses, and then provide the inspiration, guidance, and materials for students to expand...
Why Music Education?
Students consume their music with technology; either on an iPod, through a music streaming service, or by watching YouTube. As educators, we begin with the knowledge a student possesses, and then provide the inspiration, guidance, and materials for students to expand...
Focusing on the Classroom: Recruiting and Retaining Students
Quality in a music program is dependent on a high rate of returning students and a reliable feeder network. With many courses competing for the same students, recruiting enough students to keep instrumental and vocal programs healthy is essential. It is the educator’s...
West Music and Music Therapy Ed Social Media Contest
West Music and Music Therapy Ed are partnering up! Enter our social media contest, leading up to American Music Therapy Association 2014 Conference for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate! Prize: 2 $50 gift certificates to West Music Deadline: Winner to be...
Clavfest 2013 @ West Music
Clavfest is a fun, rewarding experience where students work with their teachers to perform a song on the Yamaha Clavinova utilizing one or more features of the Clavinova—no piano only sound is allowed! Students will often choose to use the automatic rhythm, layer and...
First Day as a Music Therapist with West Music
My very first group as a music therapist here at West Music is starting this afternoon! It is a music club for teenagers and young adults with intellectual and or physical disabilities. At this moment (1:19 pm) I am a surprisingly healthy mixture of anxiety and...
Great products from West Music for Adaptive Learning!
With the American Music Therapy National Convention coming soon, we thought that this would be a great opportunity to highlight a few of the adaptive products that West Music carries. American Drum PK1 Adaptive Mallets By American Drum, this set of Adaptive mallets is...
Hand-In-Hand & West Music Music Therapy featured on Trace Adkins’ GAC Show
We're extremely proud and excited to announce that Hand-In-Hand: Programs for Children With Special Needs will be featured on the September 5th nationally televised episode of GAC’s Great American Heroes! Country Music star and Great American Heroes host Trace Adkins...
What I’ve Learned in the Past Five Years as a Music Therapist
Over the past five years, I have learned a lot and grown a lot as a hospice music therapist. These past couple weeks I have been using less music, and trying to haul less things around. I have started to feel that while the sheet music does serve as a good focal point...
West Music Presented Top 100 Dealer award!
Nashville, TN - July 2012 —The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) announced that it presented West Music Company, Inc. with a "Top 100 Dealer Award" at the organization's annual summer music product trade show called Summer NAMM in Nashville, Tennessee....
Music Therapists-Uke Can Rock!
Do you have a ukulele yet, music therapists? I’m really enjoying mine! My project last summer was to teach myself, and it went pretty well. I wouldn’t consider myself a virtuoso, but it’s a pretty easy transition from guitar. Online you can find any song you want to...