{"id":503,"date":"2010-10-09T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:47:11","slug":"handbells-and-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/handbells-and-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbells and duration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/handbells.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/coloured-handbell-set1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"coloured handbell set\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/coloured-handbell-set1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>Handbells are great at helping younger students develop an understanding of duration.\u00a0 Handbells seem to keep their interest going long enough to be able to teach the concept of just how long to hold the notes on for.\u00a0 The only thing to watch is that they don&#8217;t bang the bells together, or pull at the &#8216;donger&#8217; inside.<\/p>\n<p>You can have your student choose a bell, any bell, and if they are familiar with what notes look like (ie Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets etc) you can hold up flash cards and have them ring their bell of choice and count out aloud for the length of the note.\u00a0 This way they learn to ring the bell properly too &#8211; not just give it one &#8216;shake&#8217; if they&#8217;re supposed to hold it on\/make a sound for 4 beats\/counts.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student can choose two bells and alternate with the flashcards.<\/li>\n<li>Student can line flashcards up to make a rhythm and play 1 or 2 bells along to their rhythm.<\/li>\n<li>Using a C and a G, see if you can do &#8216;low&#8217; (C) and &#8216;high&#8217; (G) with long and short duration (ie C for 4 counts, then G 3 times for 1 count each).\u00a0 Older students could be introduced to the tonic and dominant\u00a0through this.<\/li>\n<li>Use note AND rests to also ensure resting for the right length as well.\u00a0 Bells like to sleep in between all their hard work ringing!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy bellringing \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handbells are great at helping younger students develop an understanding of duration.\u00a0 Handbells seem to keep their interest going long enough to be able to teach the concept of just how long to hold the notes on for.\u00a0 The only thing to watch is that they don&#8217;t bang the bells together, or pull at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}