[HANASHIR:14833] Re: guitar class and song leading

[Joy Newman <joyzee...>]

Hello!

Although I can't really answer your local "how do I find/approach" 
questions, I can say that I think it's a phenomenal idea.  Does your 
synagogue have an adult or teen education program?  If they do, say....on 
Sunday mornings or a weekday night, offer guitar as one of the courses!  I 
know my parents were never fussy about what I took at Sunday school.  They 
just wanted my brothers and I to attend synagogue classes, to meet other 
Jewish kids, and they didn't care in the slightest what we learned.  
Offering something like guitar, which is new and different, might encourage 
more students to attend teen religious school in general.  For that 
matter...adults!

Good luck with the program.  It sounds like a great idea, and I wish you all 
the best!!!

~smile always~
-Joy Newman
Rochester, NY


>From: Scott Sloter <Scott (at) Sloter(dot)net>
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:14832] guitar class and song leading
>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:21:03 -0500
>
>Hi all.
>
>I would like to get some advice from the members of this list on the
>process that I might use to go about doing the following.
>
>In my opinion, my congregation is in great need of more music.  The kids
>in the religious school are lucky if they ever get exposed to much of
>it.  The youth group suffers because the kids have no interest in music.
>  I've been trying to come up with a way to bring more music, preferably
>on the guitar, to the kids.  My thought is to start a guitar class.  A
>lot of kids want to learn to play, however there are a lot of parents
>who don't want their kids to play rock and roll.  I figured that if the
>guitar class taught the basic chords and did it with Jewish and NFTY
>type music, the kids would end up benefitting as well as the
>congregation and the youth group, not to mention, parents might be more
>apt to let their kids play guitar.  Perhaps one of these kids would turn
>into a song leader for the region.
>
>Being from Ft. Worth, Texas, there are not a lot of opportunities to
>find Jewish song leaders nor guitar players / teachers for that matter.
>  Does anyone have any suggestions for an approach to creating such a
>program?  Please keep in mind that small Jewish population that exists
>in my area of the bible belt.  Do you think it would be easy to find an
>guitar teacher in town that is not Jewish who would learn the songs?
>  How might I approach someone who is not Jewish with this concept?  How
>should I run this type of program?  How should the congregation be
>involved, if at all, with this?  What might help make it successful?
>
>I appreciate the feedback.
>
>- Scott Sloter
>FWFTY Advisor
>Beth-El Congregation
>Ft. Worth, TX
>
>
>

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