{"id":237,"date":"2010-07-08T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-07-08T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:41:44","slug":"scales-just-a-throw-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/scales-just-a-throw-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Scales just a throw away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how tiresome it is to play exam scales over and over again.\u00a0 We also know they&#8217;re &#8220;good for us&#8221; but that&#8217;s what my mother told me about eating brussel sprouts!\u00a0 How do we\u00a0keep\u00a0our students motivated to keep playing their scales?<\/p>\n<p>For the lower level grades, write the scales\u00a0up on a die.\u00a0 The student gets to throw the die and then plays whatever scale the die lands on (up to 6 scales, of course per die!).\u00a0 Use two or more dice if you\u00a0need more scales.<\/p>\n<p>I found a template for a printable\/put it together yourself die here: <a href=\"http:\/\/rubberstamping.about.com\/od\/templates\/ig\/Cube-Box-Template\/Cube-Box-Template.-3H0.htm\">Printable cube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Print out on coloured cardstock and either you can write up the scales on it, or get your student to.\u00a0 Note: Easier to write up\u00a0the scales <em>before<\/em> you put the cube together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how tiresome it is to play exam scales over and over again.\u00a0 We also know they&#8217;re &#8220;good for us&#8221; but that&#8217;s what my mother told me about eating brussel sprouts!\u00a0 How do we\u00a0keep\u00a0our students motivated to keep playing their scales? For the lower level grades, write the scales\u00a0up on a die.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}