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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Issue 23: Welcome to the Music Jungle
Nearly six months since we started! How about that then! I have learned a massive amount about al sorts of things since starting The Music Jungle. Writing a couple of articles every week has made me be far more reflective … Continue reading
Posted in The Jungle, Uncategorized
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Issue 23: Intentionality
Doing things “on purpose” is a key to understanding how to learn – in general, and in music. The problem that many learners have is that this requires slow, purposeful work in the early stages of learning something new. The … Continue reading
Issue 23: Words and Music
Several primary school music schemes that I have used include extracts of “Stripsody” by Cathy Berberian as a starting point for creative work. (Music Express year 5 and the Oxford Music Scheme part 2). Here’s a very rough description of the … Continue reading
Posted in Composition, Lessons that have happened, The organised teacher
Tagged composition, dynamics, literacy, percussion, pitch, tempo, texture, timbre, topics, voices, year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4
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Issue 23: Winning the Battle with Beginner Recorders
And the battle is “you CAN read the music without writing the letters in”. I am bound and determined that my beginner recorder classes WILL read the dots on the stave, but sometimes it seems little a battle. Or pushing … Continue reading
Issue 22: Welcome to The Music Jungle
Last lesson idea for Chinese New Year coming up! Also a really neat rhythm game for improving focus and concentration, and a brilliant web site for everything orchestral. The Short Samba course is continuing well. We have spent three lessons … Continue reading
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Issue 22: The Great Wall of China
A lesson I taught last year…. If I was an organised, thinking-ahead sort of person, I would have planned suitable lessons for Chinese New Year well in advance, and have a selection of suitable resources all ready. However, I am … Continue reading
Issue 22: Don’t clap this one back
This is an incredibly simple little listening game, which quickly sorts out the classes that have learned focus and self discipline from those that have no idea! Keeping an internal pulse going all the time, the leader claps a four-beat … Continue reading
Posted in Aural Tests, The organised teacher
Tagged behaviour management, clapping games, games, pulse, rhythm
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