{"id":332,"date":"2010-08-06T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2010-08-06T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:19:58","slug":"beginner-violin-symbols-and-notes-game-lesson-1-a-tune-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/beginner-violin-symbols-and-notes-game-lesson-1-a-tune-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner violin symbols and notes game ‘Lesson 1 A Tune A Day’ Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little violinists (ie 3 year olds) aren’t often able to read words yet but they are quite clever at recognising symbols and patterns.<\/p>\n

I use different books for different students, depending on their needs and in part, what books I have available at the time.\u00a0 The music school I work for part time sprung a 3 year old on me.\u00a0 While THAT wasn’t so much a problem, it was more along the lines that I wasn’t told I would be teaching such a little person the very next day.\u00a0 Consequently I prepared as much as I could for a ‘normal’ lesson, and brought along the “A Tune A Day” book.<\/p>\n

Whilst normally I would use the “Adventures in Violinland” book for my younger students, I didn’t have any available at the time so we are quite happily working through “A Tune A Day”.\u00a0 It means that I do have quite a bit of preparation work each week so that my little student understands what is going on musically on each page.\u00a0 Sounds tough.\u00a0 It’s easy peasy with lots of games.<\/p>\n

Here’s one I prepared for Lesson 1 – Down bows and up bows on A with symbol recognition.<\/p>\n

I devised some more giant floor cards, which you can use on beginner students of any age (ones who can read) and some symbol flash cards.<\/p>\n

To print out the floor cards, click here: <\/a>A Tune A Day Giant Floor Flashcards<\/a><\/p>\n

For 2-to-a-page smaller flashcards (to make play easier with the symbol cards), click here: A Tune A Day Giant Floor Flashcards 2 per page<\/a><\/p>\n

To print out the 2-to-a-page smaller symbol cards, click here: <\/a>A Tune A Day Giant Floor Card Symbols<\/a><\/p>\n

Playing variations:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Hold up a symbol card.\u00a0 Student has to stand on the corresponding Giant Floor Flashcard and tell you what they’re standing on.<\/li>\n
  2. Print out two copies of the symbol cards and play ‘snap’ or ‘memory’ with them.<\/li>\n
  3. Hide the symbol cards around the room, have a look at the music, point out a symbol\u00a0then ask your student to find the matching symbol somewhere in your teaching space (could be blue tacked to the walls or something obvious – point is student has to identify them).<\/li>\n
  4. If your printer will let you, print out the Giant Floor Flashcards two to a page, one copy of the Symbols cards (as they are – already two to a page) and play ‘memory’ or ‘snap’ with those.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I wrote both ‘Great Big Whole Note’ and ‘Semibreve’ on the floor cards, depending on what you’re more comfortable with using.\u00a0 “Semibreve” is really hard for little ones to say so I usually get them to say “Great Big Whole Note” instead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bonus is that it covers all 4 beats anyway.<\/p>\n

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