Categories
- Aural Tests
- Boomwhackers/Wak-A-Tubes
- Cello Teaching
- Clarinets
- Class Teaching
- Composition
- Djembe
- Early Years
- Guitar
- Harpsichord
- Improvisation
- Keyboards
- Learning
- Lessons that have happened
- Lessons that might have happened
- Listening Music
- Ocarina
- Olympics
- Percussion
- Piano
- Practising
- Recorders
- Resources
- Samba
- Sight Reading
- Songs
- Stroke recovery
- talking to yourself
- The Jungle
- The organised teacher
- Theory
- Ukulele
- Uncategorized
- Workshops
Login
Category Archives: Ocarina
2017/10 Ocarina problems
I’m teaching a year 3 /4 class the ocarina this coming term. What could go wrong? Here’s the excellent tutor book that came with the ocarinas; which I have used with great success all last year. Ah, now you may … Continue reading
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
Leave a comment
2/100 Ding dong, I’ve got the rhythm in my head
I tripped across this singing game a few weeks ago: Here is a youtube clip (one of many). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niN_TB-OJvs I’ve been using this all week, with various classes; year 1 and 2, year 3 and 4 djembe, year 4 and 5 samba … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Djembe, Ocarina, Samba, Songs
Leave a comment
Issue 28: The Game of Four – Warm up and Compostition
This has proved to be a useful warm up for any session involving keeping a steady pulse, and learning to internalise the pulse. As a preparation, do the “counting to eight game” first, to establish a pulse. Now, explain that you … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Composition, Djembe, Keyboards, Ocarina, Recorders, Samba, The organised teacher
Tagged composition, Pulse game, wider opportunities
Leave a comment
Issue 17: Easy Christmas Carols and Tunes
This is a bit of a post-in-a-hurry; but here are a few ideas; Mary had a Baby, yes, Lord Mary had a Baby, yes my Lord Mary had a Baby, yes Lord The people keep-a-coming and the train done gone. … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Keyboards, Ocarina, Piano, Recorders, The organised teacher
Leave a comment
Issue 14: 101 things to do with “Rain on the Green Grass”
There’s a nice little 3-note round on the www.singup.org website; Rain on the green grass Rain on the tree Rain on the house tops But not on me. If you want to see the notation, have a look at the website. … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Composition, Djembe, Keyboards, Lessons that have happened, Ocarina, Piano, Recorders, Songs, The organised teacher, Theory
Tagged class work, composition, dynamics, form, instrumental work, keystage1, keystage2, mood, notation, rhythm, rounds, songs, tempo, theory, wider opportunities
Leave a comment
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: Ocarina for Keystage 1
Some years ago, while I was waiting to teach a Wider Opportunities lesson in a tiny village school, I heard a pleasant and musical warbling sound coming from the infant classroom next to the hall. The door was open, so … Continue reading