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Harmonic Learning Sequence – Summer 2024

July 30 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Welcome to Harmonic Learning Sequence – Summer 2024
–A true advancement in Music Learning Theory, grounded in over 20 years of research and practical application–

Three Tuesdays: July 30, August 6 and 13.
3:30-5:00PM EDT

Your instructor is Dr. Eric Rasmussen, a three-year student of Dr. Edwin Gordon, PhD in Music Education 2004, and researcher in early childhood and general music audiation development for over 25 years.

Schedule:

  • Three 90-minute sessions on each of three Tuesdays
  • Time: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
  • Each participant also receives one hour of individual instruction.

Class Size:

  • Limited to 10 participants for an intimate learning environment

Tuition:

  • $400 (includes my e-book)
  • $325 (You have my e-book.)

Course Highlights:

  • Dive into the world of harmonic audiation and prepare your students to more easily learn to audiate tonal patterns, tonalities, and of course, harmonic functions. Harmonic audiation also serves as the bedrock for learning to create and improvise—the highest levels of music achievement.
  • Receive a comprehensive curriculum—in an easy-to-navigate e-book—including songs and chants in the widest variety of tonalities and meters available. Many are absolute classroom hits your students will love! Check out the full book contents here.
  • Learn the curriculum by ear (and/or notation) with audio files of melodies, root melodies, and tonal patterns for a comprehensive music learning experience. 
  • Videos of student achievement, sample lessons, and recordings of past HLS courses
  • Playlists of recordings to use in HLS
  • New this year is the addition of audio files of harmonic patterns, cadences, and progressions, so that you can teach yourself advanced harmonic functions simply by listening.

You will learn to:

  • Teach harmonic functions to children effectively.
  • Enhance your own harmonic vocabulary.
  • Audiate extensions, jazz chords, and jazz progressions.

Instructor:

 Eric Rasmussen, PhD in Music Education

  • Chair, Early Childhood Music, Peabody Preparatory, Johns Hokins University 
  • A three-year graduate student of Dr. Edwin Gordon
  • Practical teaching experience in Music Learning Theory since 1988
  • Praised by heavy hitters in MLT including a few faculty. 100% of course attendees rate HLS excellent or very good.
  • Compelling insights on harmonic audiation and harmonic aptitude—based on the validation of a Yes-No game developed for 2 to 8-year-olds

Join us on this enriching journey through the Harmonic Learning Sequence, where music comes alive, and your harmonic skills soar to new heights! Enroll now to secure your spot in this exclusive course.

 

Details

Date:
July 30
Time:
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Cost:
$325.00 – $400.00

Organizer

Eric Rasmussen
Email
teachmusictokids@gmail.com

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Eric Rasmussen is chair of the Early Childhood Music department at the Peabody Preparatory of Johns Hopkins University where he has been teaching his own music curriculum to babies through 9-year-olds since 2000. While pursuing his masters degree in Music Education, he studied personally with Dr. Edwin E. Gordon from 1986-1989 at Temple University. He later returned to Temple and, in 2004, he completed his PhD in Music Education. Dr. Rasmussen has been privileged to be able to teach almost exclusively incorporating the principles of Dr. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory for over 30 years in early childhood, instrumental, and general music education settings. 

Dr. Rasmussen composes early childhood music repertoire and has performed several research studies investigating music aptitude and music achievement including one study involving children with cochlear implants. He has developed a measure of harmonic music aptitude for children ages 3-7 and will soon publish his specialized music learning curriculum.

Dr. Eric’s “Harmonic Learning Sequence” is a breakthrough method to help very young musicians (as well as older ones) understand harmonic functions by ear. He has presented at several regional and national early childhood and music education conferences including the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, the Gordon Institute for Music Learning, Maryland State Department of Education Research Forum, Music Teacher National Association, and at the 2016 Zero to Three Early Childhood conference as a keynote speaker.

For fifteen years, Dr. Rasmussen mentored scores of music teachers in the Baltimore City Public School System. He also leads professional training sessions for early childhood music teachers. Dr. Eric plays trumpet in an R&B and traditional New Orleans jazz bands, but also enjoys sitting in with rock, indie, and blues bands.

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