Multi-sensory learning and strategies for successful learning

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Learning traditional music in the western world relies on learning to read music. This can be a challenge, just as it can be with reading the written word. The good news is that any challenges can be overcome using multi-sensory learning techniques and strategies. People with dyslexia learn best through multi-sensory learning. In music lessons there is much more freedom to learn in this way than in the classroom. Kinaesthetic learning works well. Moving to the music, marching, skipping, dancing, and clapping. Drawing notes on white boards, in sand or with coloured chalk on the floor. Photocopying written music is allowed for students with dyslexia. This gives the teacher an opportunity to enlarge the score, use different colours to help with the written notes on the page and highlight any musical directions that maybe helpful for the learner. Technology can help with recording practice instructions, or videos of the teacher demonstrating what needs to be practiced at home. There are many children’s music apps. Music learning games such as DustBuster for piano and Monkey Drum for all instruments are fun and help to reinforce music learning.