How to Create a Safe Place for Improvising and Composing

Here are some simple actions you can take or phrases you can say or think to foster a safe place to explore and experiment with music in your general music classroom, band, orchestra, or choir classes: Things to Do If a learner has a song to play that they created and are enthusiastic about showing the class, find time during the class for them to showcase this—no matter how it sounds. Assign them homework for their new scale that they also have to make up a song in that key, however short. Enco