Blue Bugs Lesson 6
Registration for Summer and Fall classes opens March 1st! Please text me and let me know if you would like any friends or family put on my 1st year waiting list for the fall. Classes fill up quickly and I let my waiting list enroll before the public.
NEW CLASSES AVAILABLE in Summer! When you registered for Let’s Play Music you committed to the 3 year program – we are almost done with year one and you’ll be registering for year 2 in March. Let’s Play Music has released a new summer session that is completely optional, but also totally awesome! I’m going to be teaching these classes for four weeks in the month of June (8 lessons total). It’s an awesome way to keep the material fresh in their mind so they are fully prepared for 2nd year (and to give them something fun to do to fill those long summer days). More details in the weeks to come.
Listening to the music can spontaneously include doing some of the actions too! For instance, if you hear the song Umburra, sit down and pick an object to pass around on the beat. If you are practicing Bill Grogan’s Goat, have your student clap 4 times or nod their heads 4 times, between each line, etc. The more senses you use while “playing” the more your student will internalize. If you have the storybook of Bill Grogan’s Goat read it to your child. Let your student pretend “teach” a Let’s Play Music class for you, their siblings, or stuffed animals. This is great music practice and it’s FUN for them!
El Gallo
El Gallo translated means “The Rooster”. During your “play” time have fun working on the pronunciation of these words. Soon we’ll be singing it in harmony using a round and learning harmonic rhythm. When a child sings harmony they develop the ability to sing in tune and independently sing parts of music. It’s quite a skill!
A Frog went A-Hoppin’
Today we introduced this song, but this song will soon teach us how to read leaps on the staff and play leaps on the bells.
Jungle Rhythm
Using our “Jungle Rhythm” song we had the students walk like the elephant while I was the lion. This allowed them to hear how a beat can be divided and subdivided.
I’ve Been to Harlem
On the autoharp we played the song, “I’ve Been to Harlem” in major and then again in minor. We are training the ears to recognize the difference between the two tonalities which helps us to recognize that music can help touch our emotions and influence those listening to music.
Your student has been taking baby steps and skipping around in class for sometime. Now, we get to take the concepts that we’ve been experiencing and start applying them to reading music on the staff. This approach to reading music is somewhat unique to Let’s Play Music. Young children will be reading from the staff without knowing any note names, read more details on how this effective method works.
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