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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Tempo, Woodwind Family
In this lesson, you will:
Extension:
Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.
Play this game to practice drm sl in the key of F.
Looking for a challenge? Click on the gear at the top and uncheck "Check to enable pulsing".
Game directions: Form a seated circle. When the song begins, the teacher pretends to drop a button into the hands of three or four students but really drops the button into the hands of one student. The rest of the students watch the whole process and at the end, guess who has the button.
Listen to the song, "Ronald MacDonald". Teach the game.
Game Directions: Form a circle with all the players. Pat and clap own hands as shown, but instead of clapping right and left hands with your partner, clap both hands sideways with the people on either side of you in the circle. Sing the first time slowly, increasing the speed each time you play (adagio - andante - moderato - presto - prestissimo). Use the correct tempo terms as you increase/decrease the speed.
Play rhythms at a variety of tempos
Click on "teaching slides" to review the tempos that are given in the example.
Is it fast or slow? (moderately slow)
Is it loud or soft? (mf~mp)
Theobold Boehm (the previous piece's composer) is best known as the inventor of the modern flute. Over the course of his career, he completely redesigned the flute, giving it the shape and mechanism that we use today.
The flute is part of the Woodwind Family. Review the instruments that are part of the woodwind family.
This song provides practice reading syncopation. The song uses the song uses the tone set s,l, drm s. If you teach solfa, have your students sing the song using the solfa notes. If you don't use solfa, you could have the students sing the letter names or teach the melody by rote.
Contradance formation: four to six pairs in a line, with partners facing one another.
Verse 1: Head pair joins hands and sashays to the foot of the set and back again.
Verse 2: Head pair swing right arms with each other, and then left arms with the person in the line opposite them, then right arms with their partner in between each of the other participants. Repeat this verse if necessary.
Verse 3: When the head couple reaches the foot of the set, they join hands and sashays to the head of the set and "peel the orange," forming an arch at the bottom of the set.
Verse 4: The other participants join hands and come through the arch to begin the dance again with a new head pair.
Do Body Percussion lesson #8 with Cristian.
Stop the video as needed to practice.
Create your own body percussion sequence
When you have a sequence that you like, write it down on a piece of paper as shown in the picture.
If you have a printer, you could print this from the supporting resources.
Create your own body percussion sequence
Perform your body percussion sequence with the audio track below.