Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!
Written and Published by Nicholas Ambrosino
www.musicsimplymusic.com
director@musicsimplymusic.com

November 5, 2003

Table of Contents:

1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables

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1. MTIPS Theme

Everyone is passionate about something. Ignite the passion and you unleash the person.

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2. Welcome Notes

Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!

This issue of MTIPS is going out to 585 subscribers! Yeah! Thank you to all who share MTIPS with friends and colleagues. Just 15 more subscribers to go! My 2003 goal is to share MTIPS with 600 subscribers a month. Would you take a moment to forward this issue to anyone whom would benefit from a positive ezine to assist them in utilizing their fullest potentials as teachers and students? Thanks!

And finally, a warm welcome to all of our new subscribers. My goal is to provide you with practical tips and insights that will make your career or education in music, more fulfilling, rewarding and enjoyable. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to see a certain topic covered in an upcoming issue of MTIPS. My email address is editor@musicsimplymusic.com

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3. MTIPS Development

Ask an Italian what he had for Sunday dinner and he will describe the gravy (that’s what Italians call the sauce we put on the pasta!) to you with such detail and emotion that your mouth will water and your stomach will growl. Talk to a die-hard Yankee fan about the Yankee–Red Sox playoff games and you will be able to cut the intensity of his emotion with a knife. 

Emotions sell. They sell cars, vacations, refrigerators and clothes. A good sales person knows how to tap into the emotions you most want: “This exercise machine will give you the body you always dreamed of.” He also knows how to tap into the ones you most fear: “If you don’t buy your life insurance now, you may not be insurable in the future and then what would happen to your family?”

Teaching music is no different and neither is making music for our students. Students buy into the emotion of their teacher’s excitement and pride about working with them. I prefer to call this wonderful emotion, passion. When you instruct with passion, you teach from your heart, not from your head. Sometimes you need to forget about all that you have learned, throw caution to the wind and just let yourself get wrapped up in the excitement of the moment. Not only do we, as teachers, need to do this, we need to promote it in our students.

Set up a safe environment in which your student can play with passion, filling the music with heartfelt emotion and playing with abandon. Students are so accustomed to following the rules and coloring in the lines, that they oftentimes lose out on the pure pleasure of simply making music. Sometimes you have to color outside of the lines in order to make a masterpiece. When was the last time you simply lost yourself in the passion of what it was that you were doing and completely forgot about “the rules?”

Everyone is passionate about something. Ignite the passion and you unleash the person. Teach with passion. Play music with passion. Live with passion!

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4. Notable Quotable

Love is friendship set to music. 

- E. Joseph Crossmann, Author 

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