
Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning
Ashley Danyew
4.9from 26 ratings
- 105
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 26
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning
This podcast is a collection of creative ideas, practical strategies, and thoughtful observations from the field of music teaching and learning. Music educator Ashley Danyew will dive into topics like how we learn, developing musicianship, time management, teaching sequences, planning tools and strategies, the art of teaching, practicing, and the creative process, and share personal stories from her own experiences and observations. You’ll find creative and pedagogically-sound teaching tips; fresh, new approaches you can use in your teaching; and insight into a few tried-and-true systems and creative processes designed to help you do your best work.
- Publisher
- Ashley Danyew
- Category
- arts · education · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 105 episodes have a transcript.

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
099 - My Bach Year

19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
098 - Five Ways I’m Applying Slow Productivity to My Studio

22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
097 - 24 Ways to Use Piano Safari Sight-Reading Cards in Your Teaching
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099 - My Bach Year
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She advocates for replacing long-term goals with PACTs. PACT is an acronym for a purposeful, actionable, continuous, and trackable commitment to something you're curious about or want to learn. She also notes the importance of learning in public. In ancient Greece, learning took place in central squares, public forums for lectures, debate, performance, presentation, and critique. It was active and social and shared. We've lost some of this through the centuries, but there are still ways to recreate it in our modern world. One way is to make your learning public, to share your experiments, your intentions, and your curiosities, to talk about what you're learning as you're learning it. […]
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- 23 ratings
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