{"id":714,"date":"2011-01-22T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=714"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:21:41","slug":"holiday-music-camp-older-beginnerpreliminary-piano-1-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/holiday-music-camp-older-beginnerpreliminary-piano-1-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Music Camp – Older Beginner\/Preliminary (Piano) – 1 hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>These were my older beginner piano students over the age of 12 (all girls in my group).\u00a0 They were a VERY happy lively giggly bunch of girls and we had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

This is what I did with them:-<\/p>\n

Game:<\/strong> Interval Slap (found here:\u00a0\u00a0Interval Slap from Susan Paradis’ website<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Game:<\/strong> Beat Bingo (which some had played before, loved by all) found here: Samantha Coates’ Beat Bingo and other games<\/a>\u00a0 You’ll have to go down to the second download.\u00a0 We used the beginner version where you write in your own semibreves, minims and crotchets.<\/p>\n

Game:<\/strong> Four Corners.\u00a0 I chose 4 different rhythms and copied them out twice.\u00a0 One copy I stuck somewhere on the 4 corners of my studio.\u00a0 The others I held and shuffled behind my back.\u00a0 The girls had to choose a corner (sometimes they were all in a different one and at other times they decided to share – led to lots of laughter and a few groans).\u00a0 I randomly slapped the rhythms down on the table in front of me and they had to identify it and see if anyone was out.<\/p>\n

Composition:<\/strong> Our theme has been “The Great Music Dig” so I couldn’t let this group go without doing something theme related.\u00a0 We did this:-<\/p>\n

– I laid some theme cards down on a table (found here: The Great Music Dig composition help cards<\/a>).<\/p>\n

– I put some rhythm cards on the table<\/p>\n

– I handed each students some manuscript paper with a very large staff.<\/p>\n

– I put a box of pencils and erasers in the middle.<\/p>\n

Each student needed to compose an 8 bar composition using all or some of tools above (the manuscript was a must, of course).<\/p>\n

Feel free to make up your own composition help cards.\u00a0 Mine are very general and I doubt I would use them for younger students.\u00a0 The aim was to get these particular students using their imaginations.\u00a0 E.g. “Hot Sunny Days” – how would you feel?\u00a0 Would you move around a lot, or rest?\u00a0\u00a0 Would your movements be faster or slower?\u00a0 How do those days sound in terms of high and low?<\/p>\n

Performance:<\/strong> Perform your composition for the other students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These were my older beginner piano students over the age of 12 (all girls in my group).\u00a0 They were a VERY happy lively giggly bunch of girls and we had a lot of fun. This is what I did with them:- Game: Interval Slap (found here:\u00a0\u00a0Interval Slap from Susan Paradis’ website) Game: Beat Bingo (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,26,27],"tags":[54,126,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}