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Monthly Archives: June 2016
41/100 Milk bottle ganza/shakers
Have you spotted that school milk is now being delivered to the infant classes in mini-sized plastic bottles? It won’t take long for me to collect a class set of shakers. They need a decent amount of washing to get … Continue reading
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Tagged ganza, milk bottles, shakers
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40/100 Useful Free Piano Pieces
I often use the Piano Time tutor books with beginners – book 1 works well for beginners aged about 8 and upwards. Did you know you can download extra pieces and sample pieces from the OUP website? This link https://global.oup.com/academic/product/piano-time-pieces-1-9780193727854?cc=gb&lang=en& … Continue reading
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39/100 Ukulele – Miss Mary Mack
And again, yet another lesson based on Miss Mary Mack… How often have I used this song before? Every class I have ever taught, probably. This time round, with a year 4 ukulele class, I used it to teach the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ukulele F and C chord song
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38/100 Tuning a whole class full of Ukuleles
How to get a class of ukuleles tuned in double quick time… These are the notes the ukuleles strings are tuned to, so I start every lesson with this song: You can add your own verses; He eats green … Continue reading
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37/100 Drumkit Samba
And another samba added to the samba page: Set up a steady count of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Allocate the numbers as follows; 1, 5, 6 Surdos; 7,8 … Continue reading
36/100 Samba by Numbers; 1 2 3 4
I’ve just added this to the samba page: Set up a steady vocal counting to 4: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 allocate a number to each section, and see … Continue reading
34/100 Rhythm Tapping
I follow this site as it is full of great ideas – I don’t use all of them, but it is always interesting to have a read and a think about their suggestions. And here’s one that I MUST share … Continue reading