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Recipe for a successful music lesson
I’m not sure where I stumbled across this, but I love it – Karen Harrington’s Recipe for a Successful Music Lesson: Ingredients: Cheerful music teacher, willing student, 2 oz. of understanding, 8 oz. of patience, 1 pint constructive criticism mixed with an equal amount of praise, 1 lb. technique, 1 cup dynamics, 2 cups of…
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Music Appreciation in Relief Society
I had typed these up a while ago, but they may come in handy for Relief Society or where needed:- Learning new hymns (the Music Chairperson will let you know which lesser known hymns are coming up in Sacrament meeting to revise during Music Appreciation) Understanding the words of a hymn (reading the hymn aloud…
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Musical Snakes and Ladders
I was looking up some school teacher resources for my daughter, to assist her with her spelling when I came across this great game. The thought occurred to me that you could use Opus text and insert musical notes, signs and terms instead of spelling words (which I did). You could even have two octaves…
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Create your own music dominoes
I was lurking around the World Wide Web today and came across this site that lets you create your own personalised dominoes to use with your students: Tools For Educators I liked the fact that I could choose a ‘minim’ or ‘half note’ and call it whatever I liked. You can create your own worksheets…
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I think I’ve fallen in love…
and my husband has been informed 😀 The gorgeous sound of Joshua Bell playing ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ is absolutely music to my ears. It is a song I could never be sick of, providing Joshua Bell is playing it! Yes, he moves around a lot, some people find it distracting, but if you close…
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Orchestra Antics
Conductor: Wait, what just happened there? Clarinet: Do you have a fermata here, because we have a fermata. Conductor: Oh, is that why you stopped? Trumpet: Well, I have a railroad track. Conductor: I don’t have anything there in my score. Does anyone else have something? Oboe: I got a fermata. Flute: My part says…
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Richard Rejino – What Music Means To Me
Richard Rejino is a musician and photographer. He has recently published a book titled ‘What Music Means To Me’ which has combined both his passions, and delved into the question posed to music students What Music Means to Me? It looks like a fascinating read. We have all been a student at some point, but…
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Rhythm Review – Mitten Match Up from Jeana Beasley’s site
I printed up a copy of Jeana’s rhythm mittens last week, and they have proven to be a huge hit amongst my students. Jeana has created Level 1 and 2 so far. There are two of each mitten, so you can play ‘Snap’ or Memory/Concentration, or just see how many rhythms a student can get through in…
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‘Cheeky Kitten’ Piano Piece
I’ve had a few little tunes meandering around my head, so I thought I’d better start notating them so I can share them. Having recently looked at some photos of my fluffy friends I had taken, I thought that bunnies really don’t move around very much when they’re this cute. Kittens on the other hand… A…
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