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Tag Archives: rhythm
Issue 143: Grandma, Grandma – a complete samba lesson
The toughest class I teach at the moment is the very last one on a Friday afternoon. It doesn’t really matter which class, age group, instrument – I’m beginning to think that the problem lies in the words “Friday Afternoon”. … Continue reading
Issue 126: More ideas for the Large Class – Rhythm cards
Teaching a noisy subject like music to a class of nearly 40 children crammed into a small classroom can be a complete nightmare. You can end up spending most of the lesson bellowing “I’m waiting for you to settle down … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Percussion, The organised teacher
Tagged percussion, rhythm
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New Year Issue 117: Monkey Business
Lying in bed before the alarm went off this morning, I came up with this little body/vocal percussion number Monkey Business 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + Big Ba- boon (stamp) (click) Chimp- -an zee (click) (click) tan … Continue reading
Posted in Composition, Djembe, Percussion, Samba
Tagged cyclic patterns, graphic score, notation, ostinato, rhythm
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Issue 60: Great Big House in New Orleans
This is a catchy traditional American song, using the pentatonic scale. I have used it as a circle game; children take it in turns to choose the pie – banana, chocolate and mud being some of the more popular flavours, … Continue reading
Issue 56: Pulse, Rhythm and the Bumble Bee
There is a little playground game song which goes like this; Bee, Bee, Bum-ble Bee, stung a man up–on his knee, Stung a Pig up–on his snout, I say you’re out. I have coloured-coded the words by pitch as follows; … Continue reading
Posted in Songs, The organised teacher
Tagged internalising the pulse, penta, pulse games, rhythm, singing game
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Issue 33: Pease Pudding and London Bridge
I have made a start on my lesson planning for Wider Opportunities programmes for the coming term. I shall be using these two tunes in my keyboard, clarinet and treble recorder classes, to revise the notes that they already know … Continue reading
Posted in Clarinets, Composition, Keyboards, Recorders, The organised teacher
Tagged ensemble, partner songs, pulse, rhythm, single finger chords
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Issue 31: Morse Code Composing
Morse Code Composing Step 1 Children code up words using vocal sounds “dit” for dots and “dah” for dashes. Start with their own names; then play a game where you choose a category eg animals, and children code up an … Continue reading
Posted in Composition, Lessons that have happened, The organised teacher
Tagged Communication, composition, morse code, rhythm, Titanic, topics, World War 2
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