Red Balloons Lesson 2

What a fun 2nd week we had! I’m so proud of your kiddos!! They were so brave to go to class without their mom or dad.

Reminder – parents come next week! 😄🎉🎶

PLEASE be sure that you are able to absorb all of this amazing curriculum by coming to class on time. My sign is on the door 5 minutes before class starts, which means I’m ready for you to come in!

Reminder: on parent week bring the tote with workbook and bells. On NON-Parent week send the tote with the workbook only.

Hear How the Bells
We are teaching your student to hear harmony by using the singing part and combining it with the bell part. Singing solo doesn’t develop the ear like singing with counter parts. The opposition to the melody trains the ear in beautiful ways! This song is the powerful beginning to singing in four part harmony!

Three Blind Mice
We are helping the kids to “audiate” a melody. Audiate means to hear music ‘inside’ when there is no sound actually present. We must be able to hear music first in our heads before we learn to sing in harmony, perform different rhythms, play the correct chords, compose a song, etc. It is a vital piece to our developing a complete musician!

Major Scales
Today we introduced the term “major scale.” We learned this term as we sang our DO RE MI song! The kids heard a major scale go up and down, it’s just the beginning of understanding that every piece has a correlating key signature and scale, music theory 101 started today and it was accomplished through PLAY!

Click HERE to read part 1 of the Master Ear-Training Tool!

For my convenience, I have preloaded content for the whole semester. I will update each future post with specific time-sensitive info before I send the link each week. If you choose to read ahead you might see details that don’t apply to your child’s class. For this reason I do not recommend reading ahead. Thank you!