Dr. Billie Raye Erlings, SOU Adjunct Music Professor, will demonstrate major features of her innovative, award-winning approach to music through piano for adults of all ages, from beginners to advancing levels. She currently teaches a shorter version of the approach in Music 192 Class Piano CRN 7004. Attendants at the demonstration will be able to participate in the Music Department's Piano Lab, equipped with fifteen electronic pianos. The music teaching profession has long recognized an urgent need to reach a wider range of students, from at least Middle School through higher education. Only about twenty per cent of general students--ones who will not become music majors or minors--qualify for band, orchestra, choir or smaller ensembles. Eighty per cent of general students mostly have no education in music. Furthermore the profession has also long acknowledged the relative ineffectiveness of most "music appreciation" courses, which often range from fifty to four hundred students and are usually only lecture and listening. At the University of Arizona, where she was named Professor Emerita of Music, Dr. Erlings originated a highly successful general education course to fill that need in the profession--exciting hands-on learning about music, with components to meet general education requirements. With the use of media today, many possibilities abound for expansion of such experience-based learning. The demonstration will take place in the Music Department Piano Lab, Room 118. There are no other space or equipment needs.