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Tag Archives: reading music
32/100 Trip down memory lane
My first ever piano teacher, back in maybe as long ago as 1960 or 1961, was one of the Old School. I mean the sort who plays you a bit of the tune, and you play it back, and she … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Lessons that have happened, Piano, Sight Reading, Uncategorized
Tagged reading music
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Monday 15th June – Year 1 Recorders
Years ago, I had a fairly torrid time, teaching recorders to a group of year 2 children. I was inexperienced, easily coerced, and gave way with certain misgivings which were well-founded. It was grim and unrewarding and left me with a … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Recorders
Tagged keystage 1, reading music, reading notation
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Issue 136: Reading Music
So, having just mentioned that from now on primary school children are expected to learn staff notation, here’s a really, really quick introduction to reading pitch notation… Have a look at this little piece, which I “composed”, if I can dignify … Continue reading
Issue 132: Music Writing
I came across this article recently: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html?referrer= I was fascinated to read how important handwriting appears to be for children as part of process of learning to read. I’ve always felt that writing music notation is a really helpful way of … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Class Teaching, Keyboards, Learning, Recorders, Theory, Ukulele
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Issue 124: Topic; Spies and Secrets
This class topic has been a gift for me. Now the entire year 3 keyboard class is able to read and play from notation with almost zero input from me! How? We had been playing simple music for a term, building up from … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Keyboards, Theory
Tagged decoding, reading music, reading notation, spies
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Issue 124: First Steps in piano (or keyboard)
I’ve been trying out different ways of introducing notation to young keyboard/piano students. This worked surprisingly well in the year 3 Wider Opportunities Keyboard class I started teaching back in September: I taught “D” as the first note, and each key … Continue reading
Issue 106: Reading Music
There are two things going on at the same time when you are looking at music; pitch and rhythm. Well, there’s a lot more than that, but I’m looking at just these two elements. Here’s a piece I am teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, The organised teacher
Tagged note reading techniques, reading music, reading notation
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Issue 103: First “Wider Opps” Keyboard Lesson
I haven’t taught Wider Opportunities Keyboards for a couple of years now. However, this year, I have got a year 3 (aged 7) class for keyboards which has given me a chance to re-think how I approach things. … Continue reading
Posted in Keyboards, Lessons that have happened
Tagged notation, note reading techniques, reading music
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