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Curriculum Classes are taken in order and run for eight weeks per unit. Expect to spend 2-3 hours of on-line class work time per week. Prepare for weekly 60-90 minutes on live teleclasses. Students put in about 82 hours of on-line classroom time. We recommend 1-2 hours of independent study per week. See Becoming a Student, Requirements, and Preparation for additional information. Course materials, text books and recordings may be ordered from NewGrail Media. Unit 1: Beginning Healing Musicianship - $725 The Basic Unit curriculum includes an introduction to the major elements of music that can directly affect the human body. Students learn about palliative and curative environments, the automatic/autonomic and basic human responses to music, personal preparation techniques, different types of healing music, and ways to organize it. Students work with mode and interval aural recognition, diatonic scales and modulation techniques, in order to gain a musical foundation for meeting the immediate needs of the patient. Ten hours of Independent Study either at a healthcare facility and/or with friends and family. Required reading is “The Healing Musician,” by Stella Benson,“The Power of Now,” by Eckhart Tolle and "Grace Notes" by Tami Briggs. Required CD recording "HarpModes," by Ruth Cunningham. Must have CD before week three of course to begin learning Western modes. Click Register to apply for the couse. Click here to pay for Unit 1 now. Order the class materials from NewGrail LLC.
Unit 2: Intermediate Healing Musicianship - $725 The Intermediate Unit curriculum teaches the natural physics of music and sound as it may be therapeutically applied, the human auditory system, patient assessment techniques, more how to meet the changing needs of the patient, introduction to basic patient observation and reporting methods, increasing your genre. This unit covers entrainment concepts and inconspicuous key modulating techniques for effective entrainment, specialty patient populations, and pharmacology. Fifteen hours of Independent Study at a healthcare facility. Required reading is “Rhythmic Medicine,” by Janalea Hoffman, “Effortless Master,” by Kenny Werner, and "The American Book of Dying," By Richard Groves, Henriette Anne Klauser. Click here to pay for Unit 2 now. Order class materials from NewGrail LLC.
Unit 3: Advanced Healing Musicianship- $725 Unit Three broadens the student’s healing musical skills by adding cross-cultural music choices for therapeutic application, reviews the benefits of recorded music, advanced entrainment methods, including the Resonant Point Technique, recommending recorded music, reviews natural tonality of the human voice, harmonic and intervallic healing music applications, what to know about patient monitoring systems, anatomy and addressing pain & anxiety. Twenty hours of Independent Study at a healthcare facility. Required reading is “The Power of Sound,” by Joshua Leeds and “The Tao of Voice ,” by Stephen Chun-Tao Cheng, and "Good Vibrations," by Sarajane Williams. Click here to pay for Unit 3 now. Order class materials from NewGrail LLC.
In-House Mentor Students are required to do their Independent Study in a hospital, hospice, and retirement home, or in a related type of facility. In-house mentor may be any direct healthcare giver or administrator (nurse, chaplain, social worker, activities director, doctor, volunteer coordinator, etc.) that is responsible for the student’s appropriate behavior while at the bedside and in the healthcare environment. The in-house mentor can provide guidance for internal procedures, protocol, and answer deportment questions that may arise. The main responsibility of the in-house mentor is to approve student time, and provide a final signed summary. Students are required to complete the allotted, documented one-on-one, hours for each unit before credit can be given for that units completion. Example: All ten hours for Unit One must be completed before Unit One class time is over. *Please note: Unit One is the ONLY unit where students are minimally allowed to do their first five hours of Independent Study playing for ailing/dying friends or family members in a non-clinical environment. This is done for two reasons.
Forty-five hours of Independent Study approximates 90 to180 patients, playing from fifteen minutes to half an hour for each patient, depending on the situation.
Additionally, the program teaches simple yet potentially healing musical methods that add to the musician's repertoire. The intrinsic value of music is taught with known effective therapeutic applications, based on music theory. By the end of the course students should be able to play non-stop for 15 minutes. The final music exam will be scheduled during the latter part of Unit three. The music final is fifteen minutes of non-stop music using techniques taught in the course for modulation between the three modal families, modulation between each of the three strains of music, and modulation from a major key to its relative minor key. Students are responsible for their own lessons. We highly recommend students take music lessons to help them develop their musical skills, and to help them keep up with the class, if they ascertain they need lessons in order to do so. Student Final Essay The Student submits a final 250-word essay containing:
Student status is available 24/7, so that students may keep track of accomplishments toward graduation regularly. Non-responsive students with outstanding requirements will be removed from the active list and be given incomplete status.
*Note: We strive to keep current on all fronts of the healing music industry. We reserve the right to update our curriculum without notice. |
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