Hi {FIRSTNAME}, I hope you’re enjoying your teachers access and evaluation license for {COURSE_NAME} (Access Code: {ACCESSCODE}) in the Online Learning Site. I know from personal experience that the only thing more disruptive than having an escaped circus monkey in your classroom, is trying to teach guitar students of different abilities and experience at the Read the Rest…
Evaluation Day 6
Hi {FIRSTNAME}, I hope you’re enjoying your trial access to {COURSE_NAME} (Access Code: {ACCESSCODE}) in the Consonus Online Learning Site. Today I want to help you eliminate the #1 obstacle to your student’s success. Which is… Drum Roll… Lack of practice. So why don’t students practice? Two reasons: motivation and accountability, or lack of it. Read the Rest…
Evaluation Day 8
Dear {FIRSTNAME}, I hope your evaluation is going well and you’ve had a chance to explore Consonus Blended Courseware for Beginning Guitar and Ukulele. If you like what you’ve seen, now is a great time to order your courseware. Please watch this short screen cast to show you how to place your order online. If Read the Rest…
Student Pre-notification
STUDENT PRE-NOTIFICATION {TODAY} Dear {FIRSTNAME} {LASTNAME}, Your access to {COURSE_NAME} will expire on {EXPIREDATE}. After that date your account will remain active. However you will no longer be able to access this course. We hope you have enjoyed your music studies with Consonus Music Institute. If you would like to continue your studies you may Read the Rest…
Beginning Guitar Complete
Students expand their knowledge beginning with the introduction of basic skills including single note play, various strumming patterns as well as numerous open position chord forms. Students journey from reading tablature to standard notation. Level 2 begins with open position chords and progress to movable power chords. Improvisation is introduced, based on movable pentatonic scales. Read the Rest…
Intermediate Guitar Complete
Intermediate Guitar Complete continues the teaching progression established in Guitar Fundamentals – Beginning Complete. This course also provides an excellent entry point into a blended learning class model for students who have developed basic note reading skills and instrumental technique using another method. The course contains 41 lessons designed to be taught over two semesters. Author Mike Read the Rest…
Guitar Fundamentals Receives Highest Recommendation in USOE Review
On December 12th 2013, The Utah State Office of Education released the results of its Fall 2013 Instructional Materials Review and Consonus Music Institute’s Guitar Fundamentals – Beginning Course was given the highest adoption recommendation of Primary Curriculum by the review commission. As a Primary Curriculum teachers in Utah public schools may adopt the CMI Read the Rest…
CMI presents at Association for Middle Level Education 2013
CMI will present a session on Blended Learning in Instrumental Music at the Association for Middle Level Education 2013 Conference on November 8th in Minneapolis. Mike Christiansen will conduct the session. He will discuss what some of the trends in K-12 music education which are driving the need for additional instrumental music options utilizing technology Read the Rest…
CMI Partners with Hard Rock Café and Fender Music Foundation
On August 9th Consonus Music Institute clinicians Mike Christiansen and Abe Lagrimas, Jr. traveled to Springfield Massachusetts to be part of a new event that may be coming to your community in the future. The event was a 2 day music workshop sponsored by the Hard Rock Café and the Fender Music Foundation that brings Read the Rest…
CMI Presents at Texas Bandmaster’s Conference July 23rd in San Antonio
Consonus Music Institute’s Director of Curriculum Development Mike Christiansen will be presenting a clinic at the 2013 Texas Bandmasters Association Conference on 21st Century Classroom Guitar Instruction. This presentation will cover key information for every music teacher who either currently teaches or is considering teaching classroom guitar. Topics will range from How To Establish a Read the Rest…
