{"id":528,"date":"2010-10-18T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-10-18T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:46:28","slug":"counts-and-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/counts-and-chocolate-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Counts and Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-532\" title=\"Note Values in Chocolate Cake picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-1536x841.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-picture-2048x1121.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever had trouble remembering the note counts\/values?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I only had a couple of students, and they were beginners, I would bake a cake (or cupcakes) and we would dissect them into Semibreves, Minims and Crotchets (aka whole notes, half notes and quarter notes).\u00a0 Now I just talk about the visual image to my students, but it really isn&#8217;t quite as much fun as actually cutting up the cakes, then eating them at the end.<\/p>\n<p>I really am not great with any other program except Word (I was a Word Processing Operator), however I occasionally get the urge to mess around with Publisher and see what I can do. I came up with these giant floor cards\/posters with a yummy looking chocolate cake to show students how a &#8216;Great Big Whole Note\/Cake&#8217; would look as a cake etc.<\/p>\n<p>To print out the posters, click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake1.pdf\">Note Values in Chocolate Cake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To print out some whole cakes, half cakes and quarter cakes for other games, click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Note-Values-in-Chocolate-Cake-cake-tiles.pdf\">Note Values in Chocolate Cake cake tiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: The tiles are not all the same size.\u00a0 I find a great way to use these is to have your student make up a rhythm picture then play it using percussion instruments or any note of their choice on their instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever had trouble remembering the note counts\/values?\u00a0 When I only had a couple of students, and they were beginners, I would bake a cake (or cupcakes) and we would dissect them into Semibreves, Minims and Crotchets (aka whole notes, half notes and quarter notes).\u00a0 Now I just talk about the visual image to my students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,28],"tags":[70,74,91,98,104,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}