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Music. 

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I love to teach. I love the academic environment. 

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And then, right move it to the third instead of 

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Where I get to hang out with young musicians and talk about music and make music in the studio, in the rehearsal room, and on stage.

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Music.

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I teach a graduate seminar in music in society, genres, and musicology. 

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I also work with graduate students one on one. 

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With my private saxophone students, we're often working on both repertoire and improvisation. 

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One of the processes that I find very effective is for us to look at the music and talk about different ways to analysis it, talk about different ways to play through it and memorize it.

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And to just play back and forth and just trade ideas. 

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In addition, I teach undergraduate classes in the business of music, music theory, song writing.

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In the song writing class, we often have a process where the students will submit work which I can put up on the projector. 

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Then, I can look at some of the problems that they may be having and suggest solutions.

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So that all students in the class who might be having some of those same problems can benefit from seeing the work of their peers.

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We have a superb music faculty here across the board in classical music, jazz, popular music, in composition, performance, and musicology. 

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We as music teachers often perform with our students on stage in recitals.

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Students get the kind of personal attention that they can only get in a small, intimate program like we have here at WOU.

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We encourage students to pursue the music that their most passionate about.

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My name is Tom Bergeron and I'm proud to be a Western Oregon University professor.

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Music.