The concepts I like most about the Tobin Music System are the use of shapes, colour and pattern to teach music because you can work things out for yourself and it makes it easy to remember.
Last autumn, I began to assist teaching Tobin music classes to children aged from five upwards.
My favourite activity is composition. The children had been taking classes for just under a year when they were asked to compose a 16-bar waltz. This included time signatures, primary chords, passing notes, auxiliary notes and even cadences, all of which they fully understood.
Most of my GCSE music class didn't understand these concepts, yet these children knew it inside out.
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