{"id":430,"date":"2010-08-30T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-08-30T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:26:14","slug":"music-practise-at-home-three-times-in-a-row-correct-with-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/music-practise-at-home-three-times-in-a-row-correct-with-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Music practise at home &#8211; &#8216;three times in a row correct&#8217; with sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/soft-toys.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"175\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-431\" title=\"soft toys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/soft-toys.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Practise at home doesn&#8217;t have to become drudgery. \u00a0If you keep things fresh for your kids, they can absolutely love the time they spend with their instrument.<\/p>\n<p>My kids love to play their pieces 3 times through (each piece) and proudly ring one of the three bells I have sitting on top of my piano once they have played the piece correctly (see my post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/?p=419\">&#8216;three times in a row correct&#8217; game<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Soon, I will take the bells away and put up three soft toy farm animals that each make a different sound. \u00a0My kids will ADORE getting these toys to make their sounds once they have successfully played their pieces through.<\/p>\n<p>You could even use a &#8216;ring for service&#8217; bell, &#8216;clappers&#8217;, a rain maker or slide whistle. \u00a0Anything that makes a great noise is going to get kids intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to get kids on that piano stool or in front of the music stand first and playing. \u00a0The bonus is that you&#8217;re not rewarding them with lollies, rather with another sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clappers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-432\" title=\"clappers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clappers-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clappers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clappers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clappers.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practise at home doesn&#8217;t have to become drudgery. \u00a0If you keep things fresh for your kids, they can absolutely love the time they spend with their instrument. My kids love to play their pieces 3 times through (each piece) and proudly ring one of the three bells I have sitting on top of my piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,21,29],"tags":[91,92,104,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}