{"id":1245,"date":"2012-02-08T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2012-02-08T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:05:48","slug":"scales-with-a-harry-potter-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/scales-with-a-harry-potter-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Scales with a Harry Potter Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-Rhythm-Cards-with-Harry-Potter-Names_Page_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1247\" title=\"Scale Rhythm Cards with Harry Potter Names_Page_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-Rhythm-Cards-with-Harry-Potter-Names_Page_1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out scales aren&#8217;t so bad when you&#8217;re adding a different rhythm to them.\u00a0 Enter&#8230;Harry Potter Rhythms!\u00a0 I have taken some well known names from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters<\/a>\u00a0and put them onto cards.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that those students who are familiar with Harry Potter will go &#8220;Aaaaaaaaaah I know that person&#8221; and get all enthusiastic, then you ask them to play a scale to the rhythm of the name in bold.\u00a0 The way you say it is the way you play it.\u00a0 For example: Malfoy has two syllables, so if we are doing a C Major scale, it will be C &#8211; C, D\u00a0&#8211; D etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The harder version is to go up and down the scale with one syllable per note.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the cards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Scale-Rhythm-Cards-with-Harry-Potter-Names.pdf\">Scale Rhythm Cards with Harry Potter Names<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also included backs for those that like backs.\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I print the\u00a0 front and backs out on separate pieces of paper, then glue them together.\u00a0 Or sometimes I cut them out first, then glue them together before laminating. ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out scales aren&#8217;t so bad when you&#8217;re adding a different rhythm to them.\u00a0 Enter&#8230;Harry Potter Rhythms!\u00a0 I have taken some well known names from http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters\u00a0and put them onto cards. The idea is that those students who are familiar with Harry Potter will go &#8220;Aaaaaaaaaah I know that person&#8221; and get all enthusiastic, then you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}