Today’s plan was a full school show, then 3 demo classes. The idea being they’d be model classes that the teachers could video and I could write up a week’s worth of fantastic lesson plans for you. Ahhhh… if only things worked like they should! First off was the show. 300 kids in the gym…

I ordered Brett Manning’s Singing Success vocal programme today. In his “Philosophy of Learning” section he writes: Have you ever seen the movie Karate Kid?  Singing Success uses the same “wax on, wax off” approach to learning.  You’ll improve steadily by doing simple exercises that retrain your muscles to automatically respond with new coordinations.  That’s…

I’ve had quite a few people asking to put up demo versions of the Adult / High School Hip Hop songs. It would be fairly easy to do, but …. I figured it would be a bit boring really. So…. I’ve put them up on the site, with pictures, but as an interactive listening quiz!…

Popped along to the ACET workshop in Fukuoka today ( figured it would be a nice rest after spending the last few days till well into the morning auditioning music files!). The picture books went down very well ( maybe A4 is best?), and I also did the Nemo Game. One of the teachers also…

Just in case you’ve not noticed ( how could you not have?), the Pokemon are back! The “Diamond” and “Pearl” editions for the Nintendo DS are sold out just about everywhere, and nearly everyone is Wi-Fi ing around trying to swap new monsters. I guess it’s time to dig up all those old Pokemon lesson…

Most of my energies over the last few years have been spread all over the country, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. But one place where I haven’t done much, outside of bookstore events, is in the capital Tokyo. So this week has been nice to have not one, but two workshops in real elementary schools. As…