Basic music theory covering topics such as:

• Melody vs Harmony
• Rhythm vs Tempo
• Music Analysis & Form Analysis
• Musical Notation & Terminology

Basic techniques of solfege and training students to understand the specifics of what they’re hearing.

• Identifying aspects of work within a recording (e.g. Was that an oboe or a clarinet the composer used
  there? Were the celli playing together with the first violins in this recording that seems less polished?)
• Identifying intervals by hearing them
• Solfege, dictation & sight-singing

• Learning the history of classical music and composers chronologically relative to other composers
• Learning the history of legendary masters of their own instrument
• Helping students understand what makes
  a given piece great or trite, or what makes a given performance a benchmark or a misfire.

• From being able to correctly identify visual cues on the score to executing the appropriate action on their instrument
• Building skills to be able to sight-read pieces that are simple relative to the students’ current instrumental repertoire

Less about how to practice a specific passage within a specific piece and more about learning to distinguish between

• practicing
• performing
• practicing the ACT of performing
• mindless repetition, frustrating and protracted trial-and-error, and other common activities mistakenly labeled “practicing” by countless students.