Travelling instrument teacher provides music lessons for hard-to-reach rural Queensland schools

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Providing specialist education, like science and music, across rural Queensland can be a challenge. But saxophones and drums are once again ringing out in north Burnett classrooms, thanks to a travelling instrumental teacher.

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00:00Music is more than a job for Tina Greenfield.

00:09Music is for everyone. That is the first thing. Everyone has an equal opportunity to join the program.

00:15Introducing a generation of students to instruments that could otherwise miss out.

00:20Our kids don't have a music teacher just down the road that they can access privately,

00:25so our department instrumental music teacher provides that service free of charge to our kids.

00:31She restarted the program this year after the region's schools struggled to find someone to teach music.

00:38Ms Greenfield travels 350 kilometres each week to deliver music lessons to 82 students in five schools.

00:47It opens you up to different talents that you didn't have before or you never knew that you had.

00:53For people who are nervous of, like, performing, sometimes an instrument can get them out there, make them feel more confident.

00:59I've played bass drum, snare drum, drum kit, xylophone, glockenspiel, clavs, tambourine, hi-hat and tom drum.

01:07As they master notes, these students are also building life skills.

01:12My job is to help foster that and build that relationship with music so that they've always got a healthy output for their emotions.

01:24With the summer break just around the corner, Ms Greenfield hopes her students will practice throughout the holidays

01:30and take music with them for many years to come.

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