Teaching

TEACHING

Eah has taken a music teacher training course at Mills College based
on the work of Orff-Schulwerk. She leads group music classes and
teaches private music lessons on harp, piano and guitar, while also
incorporating singing into her lessons.

She has visited several schools as a guest artist, bringing various
musicians together, performing on uncommon instruments, to bring an
exciting and interactive experience to the children. Once, while asking
the children if they had any questions, a young boy asked
“Why are you not here every day!”

Eah has taught music in Sweden and has also held group music sessions
at both schools and orphan inches while traveling in Belize and Guatemala.

Eah approaches teaching from many angels. She has always enjoyed music
theory and likes to pass on her wealth of knowledge. However, she
believes that music is first and foremost a feeling experience and therefore
sees it as a priority to feel the music before the necessity of reading it.

To aid in learning to read and write music Eah encourages her students to
compose their own songs, something she herself loves to do! She finds that
many students get very excited about their own compositions and have written
some wonderful songs (some children at quite a young age).

Eah has studied drumming and sees rhythm as a very basic and important
element in music. She guides her students through rhythm exercises and allows
them to put together their own rhythm patterns.

Eah strives to combine a classical and theoretical training with amore
hands on, spontaneous approach. Most importantly music is meant to be fun and to
feel good!
When a student is approaching practice as pleasure rather then a chore
they will naturally want to continue playing for a lifetime.

Of course a good dose of discipline is required. If a student is
taught both how to read,
compose and improvise music they can shift from disciplined study to
light hearted play
and in so doing keep the musical experience fresh and exciting!