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Category Archives: Lessons that have happened
23/60 Teaching by Finger Number/Note Letter
Please don’t. I think it is is such a BAD idea… What has provoked this post, is taking on a number of young piano students recently. They turned up with numbers written over EVERY SINGLE NOTE in their pieces. Ugh. … Continue reading
21/60 The invisible pencil
It’s not the pencil that is invisible, come to think of it – the title is a bit misleading. I’ve inherited a number of young piano pupils who are very weak at note-reading, so the challenge is to encourage them … Continue reading
2017/12 Prep Tests and Teaching by Rote
Rote is how I learned to play piano – I had a “knuckle-rapper” teacher to start with. “It goes like this, dear” she would say, playing the first phrase. If I copied it right, all was well and good. If … Continue reading
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2017/7 Beethoven’s Fifth for Ocarinas
Last term I achieved a long-held ambition. When I stumbled across an arrangement of the themes from the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony for ocarinas I simply burst into laughter. Then I decided that it was something that HAD … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Lessons that have happened, Ocarina
Tagged Beethoven, ensemble, graphic score
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2017/6 Group exercise – Key stage 2
Following on from the last post about the beanbag/percussion game, I tried the same thing with the next class who were Year 3 and 3 (aged 7 and 8). I moved through the preliminary steps more swiftly, and added an extra … Continue reading
2017/5 Classroom Percussion – Group exercise for Early Years
Here’s a lesson that went rather well today. I remembered one of the games I tripped across while looking at Drum circle activities, on youtube, posted by a drummer called Kalani. (I was so impressed by him, that I bought … Continue reading
2017/3 A Snail song for young children
I found this song and game on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oz5wOq8qLY no, back a step, I found the song on www.singup.org which is a great song site, but you need to PAY MONEY to join it (but loads and loads of resources). … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Early Years, Lessons that have happened, Songs
Tagged singing game, so mi songs
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2017/2 Teaching Ukulele TAB
I’ve a couple of ukulele classes to teach this year. One group, of year 5 and 6 children, have already done ukulele as a class instrument a couple of years ago, so I didn’t want to just follow my tried … Continue reading
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Tagged TAB
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