Educational Materials
for adult music learners
My name is Silke, and I create educational materials.
I am a trained IT specialist with a master’s degree in Education and Psychology, and I have 40 years of teaching experience both online and offline.
During the pandemic, I started early retirement and began producing the musical learning materials that I personally felt were lacking.
Available Learning Materials:
Dotfree Trad
Dotfree charts for irish trational music
Just Bodhran
More fun than a metronome
Functional Ear Training
Start to FEEL music
Learning materials
Materials for free or for a small fee
PDF cheat sheets & infographics, PDF sheet music
Practice & Playalong Tracks, Call & Response Ear Training Tracks
Projects I’m currently working on:
Irish traditional music
DotfreeTrad
Build an Irish traditional repertoire learning from dot free charts
Live
Just Bodhran
“More fun than a metronome” practice tracks
Live
DADGADTabs.com
Tabs for trad irish fingerstyle guitar – from easy peasy to quite spicy
Live
Ear Training & Improvising
Functional Ear Training
Call and response tracks – sing or play along with your instrument
Live
Intuitive Improvising
Improvise without any scale drills
Coming soon
Multi-Instrumentalist
Ac. Guitar, Whistle, Flute, Recorders, EWI, Sylphyo, some Piano & Clarinet
Software Geek
Ableton Live Enthusiast
40 years teaching experience
Teaching music since 1983 (on and off), teaching IT from 1992 to 2022
44 years folk session experience
trad german – no dots in sessions here too… 😉