Practicing Safe Music

"Practicing Safe Music" is designed to energize music teachers to open the doors in the minds and hearts of all those students who long to come alive. All while practicing the proper care and feeding of a musician and music teacher so they're not giving from an empty well.

A book about helping music students COME ALIVE and discover joy on a level they never had access to. A style of teaching and modeling in the classroom that touches their deepest desires, activates their playfulness and courage. A self-assured, playful, loving teacher can make all the difference in the world. That's where this book comes in. Its content is here to elevate your practice as a teacher, and in so doing, help you emancipate your students from whatever place their learning has gotten trapped.

Janet Feld has taught music to people of all ages in schools, camps, and private lessons since the 1980s. She teaches guitar and songwriting at The Passim School of Music and is the founder and Chief Music Officer at Janet's Planet: Music Lessons for Humanoids, Inc. Janet is also an award winning performing songwriter, appearing at folk festivals and coffeehouses nationally and internationally. When not teaching, she's having a blast performing with her band, The Secret Sauce.