Orange Roots Lesson 2
In a Flash Club: every week, when checking homework, we’ll write your child’s BEST flashcard time on the white board by their name. The goal is to beat their own time each week. Please help them out by timing them do their flashcards at least three times during the week. Remember, they should be SEEING the card, SAYING the note name, and PLAYING the note in the right place on the piano. See it, Say it, Play it. It’s critical they develop the speed reading/playing connection in their brain for successful piano playing in the future.
C Major Scale: (pg. 2) Video below for a quick review on how to play hands together.
Cadence Blues: remember to have your kiddo play it with the audio track! They will need to count “Red-2-3-4, Blue-2-3-4…” to stay on track.
Echo Edison
The newest member of our Echo family has arrived. He is Echo Ed and Echo Edna’s grandfather! He likes to ask musical questions and have the kids give him musical answers. He will not only help us learn technique and play finger exercises in 5 keys, but is the vehicle for helping us create our compositions this semester!
Cadence Blues
Cadence Blues is actually ONLY printed in the key of C in your songbooks, but on your CD you have the ‘Blues’ in other keys. While playing in the key of F or G, you still have to read the song written in the key of C. That’s right! Your little musician will be transposing! Woot woot! Be sure to keep the audio player near the keyboard to make practicing fun!
Monsters
The new puppet show is entitled Monsters. However, the real name of the puppet show is Montagues and Capulets, also known as Dance of the Knights and is from the ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ composed by Sergei Prokofiev. This puppet show is similar to many of our past puppet shows–it follows the ABA formula that composers love! But the themes are layered on top of each other, and we will further develop our ear training to distinguish the individual layers of sound.
Wouldn’t it be funny if all the characters from our Monsters Puppet Show were actually just friends in their LPM (Lambda Pi Mu) fraternity at Monsters U??? Check it out in this fun post on our Let’s Play Music Blog!
Or click here to here to see some fellow Let’s Play Music students performing their own Monsters Ballet!
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