Yesterday I started reading "The Artistry of Teaching and Making Music", by Richard Floyd, and already in the preface I had to stop because I thought what I was reading was so clever. Floyd writes that for many years he had a book where he noted what he pragmatically calls things that worked . Things like strategies, activities and techniques that have been proven to work over time, with different groups. This inspired me to make my own book to carry with me, and to start wri

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