We had a very fun and productive lesson today!
After I checked your C major scales and Letter Name Tunes, we played a note naming game called "Face Off" to help us get faster at finding notes on the Grand Staff. We also played the "Grand Staff Note placement" game. Everyone is becoming more familiar with the musical alphabet and counting up or down by line and space with the staff. Good work!
I'm also pleased to see that our piano playing skills are coming along nicely.
Your songs are sounding better and better.
I'd like those of you who have the Piano Suite software at home to try practicing Old Grey Goose, Twinkle Twinkle and Pop Goes the Weasle, level one songs (in the Grand Staff) for next week.
We tried these songs together in class, and all of you seemed to enjoy the Piano Player lesson. Then we did your Theory Thinker lesson, and you did some more review on how the Treble and Bass clef work, as well as note values: quarter notes, half notes, etc.
To reinforce these concepts we did some playback exercises together.
I would clap a 4-beat rhythm and you all had to clap it back to me.
Finally, we played a game called "Bongo Boy" in the Children's Music Journey program, where you had to play a drumming competition on Middle C.
Then the bell rang and we were out of time! We'll try Bongo Boy again next time so that everyone gets a chance to win the game. (Josh - you beat Bongo Boy first try! Great sense of rhythm!) Have a great week everyone!
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