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  <a href="/blog/blog/6128252/the-number-one-fear-about-teaching-improvisation-improvisation">The Number One Fear about teaching Improvisation? Improvisation!</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>When I do a workshop or talk to another music teacher, I often ask, “What is your biggest fear about teaching jazz?” The number one answer I get is “Improvisation.” Here’s the way a few people put it at a recent workshop I gave:</p>
<ul>    <li>        <p>My biggest fear about teaching jazz? Improv.</p>    </li>    <li>        <p>Teaching beginning improvisation</p>    </li>    <li>        <p>Student fear</p>    </li>    <li>        <p>Getting kids to feel comfortable with improvising</p>    </li>    <li>        <p>Not being able to help students (and myself) personify the music (Ed.…</p>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2018-06-08T12:00:00-12:00" title="June 08, 2018 12:00">06/08/2018</span></p>

  <p class="post-info">in <a href="/blog/blog/blog_categories/47355">no rules, no fear jazz</a>, <a href="/blog/blog/blog_categories/47356">workshops</a>, <a href="/blog/blog/blog_categories/47362">Rhythm First</a></p>
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  <a href="/blog/blog/6128251/your-rules-your-fears">Your Rules, Your Fears</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>I was invited to give my talk on "No Rules, No Fear Jazz" in February 2018 at the NJMEA Annual Conference. I asked the folks attending to give me a quick answer to my four key questions:</p>
<ul>    <li>What rules about jazz are you looking for permission to break?</li>    <li>What rules must we keep for it to still be considered jazz?</li>    <li>What is your biggest fear about teaching jazz?</li>    <li>What is your biggest fear about playing jazz yourself?</li>
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<p>Here, just as they wrote them, and in no particular order, are the answers I got back:</p>…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6128251/your-rules-your-fears">Read more</a></span></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2018-06-07T12:00:00-12:00" title="June 07, 2018 12:00">06/07/2018</span></p>

  <p class="post-info">in <a href="/blog/blog/blog_categories/47355">no rules, no fear jazz</a>, <a href="/blog/blog/blog_categories/47356">workshops</a></p>
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