It was great to meet all of you for the first time this morning.
Last week you had Hannah for your teacher, and she did a great job of helping you learn everything you need to know to get started with MusIQ Club (Check Hannah's blog below).
Today, we started learning about how to read notes on the Staff. Remember that your Right Hand plays in the Treble Clef, and your Left Hand plays in the Bass Clef.
You can always figure out what note to play on the staff by counting up or down from Middle C, by line and space.
I was so glad that all of you were familiar with the musical alphabet already: A-B-C-D-E-F-G, and back to A.
You were pros at the 'Word Play' game, finding the letter names on your keyboard.
I gave you 2 songs to practice at home this week: Mary had a little lamb and When the Saints go Marching In.
Practice them with a curved finger hand position and keeping a steady beat.
We reviewed the number order of our fingers: thumbs are 1 and pinkies are 5. Make sure that you use the correct fingering when you play your songs - watch out for 'steps' and 'skips'.
After we did our Theory lesson, learning about quarter notes, half notes and whole notes, we did some rhythm exercises together in 4-beats. You were excellent at clapping back rhythms to me! In the game 'Bongo Boy', you got to battle against the computer to see who could make the best rhythms.
Everyone in the class was able to beat the Bongo Boy and escape the crab! Good work.
Next time we'll talk more about the staff, and other kinds of rhythms. Please bring a folder to keep your song sheets in, and bring your songs to class so that I can hear all the wonderful practice that you've been doing. ;)
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