Universities

As a guest clinician, Miles has taught hundreds of professional music educators in summer music programs at Villanova University, VanderCook College of Music, and beginning in 2006 he will also be working at the Webster Summer Music Institute in Philadelphia.

Class offerings in the past have included:
Please check the corresponding websites for upcoming offerings.

Guitar for the Non-Guitarist

For music teachers with no guitar experience to learn to use the guitar in the classroom.

Guitar Skills and Curriculum

For music teachers with some guitar experience to further develop their skills and to create a guitar instruction curriculum for their school setting.

Continuing Guitar 

Songwriting, Composition, Curriculum
Similar to “Guitar Skills and Curriculum” with an added emphasis on teaching composition and songwriting.

American Folk Instruments & History

Learn basic skills on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Students also explore the grassroots American contexts from which these instruments emerged.

Teaching and Playing Guitar By Ear

For students with at least 1 year of guitar playing experience.

Classic Rock for Guitar

Rolling Stones, Beatles, Eagles, CSN, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix — These are the players who really put the guitar on the map. Play what they played.  For intermediate players.

Write What You Hear

Songwriting and Compostion for Everyone. 
Everyone has an opinion about how to do it.  This class looks at demystifying the creation of new music, so that everyone can do it.

Survey of American Folk Music

Carl Sandburg described his American Songbag this way…”it comes from the hearts and voices of thousands of men and women. They made new songs, they changed old songs, and they carried songs from place to place."  Amerca's history is told and punctuated by its music from the revolutionary war to the present.  Sing it, play it, bring it to your school. 

Links

Villanova University

VanderCook College of Music

Samuel Barber Institute for Music Educators