James Humberstone’s blog
My podcast, Music Zettel, is also hosted through this blog. You can listen to it here by filtering the Podcast category, or you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, or TuneIn.
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Music Zettel Ep. 5 – Tech skills & industry collaboration
This week we are giving away dozens of free resources for music education and technology! I’ll be reflecting on the first 5 weeks of my Sydney Conservatorium course “Technology in Music Education”, which culminated in a media creation session with brilliant pianist Lolita Emmanuel in which the students were the film and sound crew. I… Read more
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Music Zettel Ep. 4 – longer version – Music Education & Social Justice
This is the longer version of Episode 4 of my podcast, Music Zettel, in which I’ve included more information about the plight of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in contemporary Australian society for context for listeners, especially from overseas, who may not know the background. Note – I suggest you don’t listen to this… Read more
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Alice Springs makes Zettel 4 a little late
OK, so I know you’re all madly waiting for episode of Music Zettel, my new podcast. OK well maybe not. Last week I went to Alice Springs to work on a new project for 2020. It’s pretty amazing, so I decided to rewrite the podcast content for this week to focus on it instead (it… Read more
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Learning the ukulele diary 6: am I close?
I thought this week I should review how many chords I’ve learned, which I’m still a bit slow with chord changes on, and what I still have to go. As you may remember, we’ve asked students to learn the major, minor, and seventh chords of A, B flat, C, D, E, F, and G. So,… Read more
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Music Zettel Ep. 3 – Orff formula arrangements
This week’s episode is drawn from my first two lectures this semester in Composition in Music Education. We look at some of my own Orff-style arrangements and original compositions and discuss how these can be both a pedagogical and compositional model for teaching and learning. The resources I mentioned in this episode include: My Train’s… Read more