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Category Archives: Lessons that might have happened
65/100 Pentatonic Composition
Here’s an idea for call-and-response pentatonic song composition. I started by teaching the song “Hill ‘n’ Gully Ride-a” – but you can skip this step if you like. The children just need to understand the concept of call-and-response; here’s an example; … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Composition, Lessons that might have happened, Songs
Tagged call and response
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Issue 120: Stickers for a young violinist
Tonight I was running through the piano accompaniments for a young (and very tired) violinist preparing for Grade 3. One piece has a couple of Grade 1 standard A major and D major arpeggios, and she was consistently playing them … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons that might have happened, Piano, Practising
Tagged fingering, fingers
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Issue 61: The Three Little Pigs
This half of term I have been looking at “timbre” with a year 1 and 2 class, working towards performing a “musical” version of the Three Little Pigs. This fitted in nicely with their class topic of “Traditional Stories”. We … Continue reading
Issue 7: Class music – keystage 1 – Castles
“Our topic this week is castles – can you do something about castles in music this afternoon?” Umm; I am completely out of ideas for songs about castles; the only music I can think of is “The Old Castle” from pictures … Continue reading
Issue 5: Dishing Out The Instruments
I reckon this is about the most complicated part of your average music lesson. I learned how to manage this “the hard way”. Actually, I am still learning how to do this – but it is getting easier as the … Continue reading
Issue 3: First Lesson of Term; Wider Opportunities; Lyons C Clarinets
We’ve done the warm up, the song, and the game, and it’s the moment the children have been waiting for. Everyone is persuaded to sit down; the clarinets are handed out with instructions NOT TO OPEN THEM YET. The inventory numbers on … Continue reading
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Tagged clarinet, keystage2, NC1b, wider opportunities
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Issue 1: First keyboard lesson of the year with a Wider Opportunities class
Oh joy! This is one of my favourite lessons of term! This is the day that the children are introduced to their keyboards; let’s not kid ourselves that any formal music teaching is going to take place but it is … Continue reading
Posted in Keyboards, Lessons that might have happened
Tagged keyboards, keystage2, NC1b, NC3a, wider opportunities
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