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AMEB (NSW) Warm Up Room
On Level 8 of the AMEB Clarence Street Office, there is a large waiting room with reception desk and a warm up room. The warm up room consists of a cello chair, a music stand and two upright pianos. Today were signs outside the room that said “Warm Up Room Only, 5 mins allowed. Instrumentalists…
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AMEB Second Metropolitan Examinations 2010
I had some of my piano and violin students sit their exams today. Boy am I glad those exams are over! There is so much work and preparation involved in making sure everything is perfect, it seems, just to please an examiner. It appears today that the examiners my students had were very hard markers. Perhaps with…
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violinstudent.com – Games For Violinists
Searching for more games for my violin students to play, I stumbled across this site which has online games of concentration, word puzzles, viola jokes, tic tac bow and some ideas for music you might like to play. Tic Tac Bow is easy enough for beginners. The concentration game (Music Match) is a great way…
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Violin duet using triplets ‘Don’t Throw Your Junk/Bottles of Pop’
I had a song in my head tonight that I used to sing in the car with my brother when we were little. I’m not sure where we learned it from, but it certainly was a favourite of ours. I thought it would be a fun way to review triplets with violin students and a…
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Mystery surrounding AMEB 4th Grade Violin Exercise 8
Well folks, I worked out the mystery today after being led on a bit of a wild goose chase with Exercise 8 in the Level 1 Violin Technical Work Book. My edition of the Technical Work Book is the 2001 publication. With each grade I have going through, I make sure I know the technical…
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‘Dig’ Positive Reward Notices
I wanted to create some little handouts that went along with our theme and were easy for me to fill out so that if I noticed any of my students doing amazing things (or just doing what they’re supposed to do) I could reward them for that effort. On the other hand, I didn’t want to…
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Mnemonics for Modes
Anyone else had trouble remembering modes? They are (for a C major scale):- Ionian/Major Scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C Dorian: D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D Phrygian: E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E Lydian: F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F Mixolydian: G, A, B, C,…
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Order of Sharps – poster
I’ve been meaning to put this one up for a while, but hadn’t gotten around to it. I have been using this particular mnemonic with most of my students for quite a long time and it isn’t one they forget easily. I grew up hearing ‘Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle’ and the reverse…
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Counts and Chocolate Cake
Ever had trouble remembering the note counts/values? When I only had a couple of students, and they were beginners, I would bake a cake (or cupcakes) and we would dissect them into Semibreves, Minims and Crotchets (aka whole notes, half notes and quarter notes). Now I just talk about the visual image to my students,…
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The Great Music Dig introduction
For the commencement of The Great Music Dig’ theme, I decided to write up a brief outline for my students outlining the theme. I provided a brief explanation of an archaeology dig site and a description of some of the tools archaeologists might use. I then likened the archaeology dig site tools to the ones…
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