The Basics and More
- Introducing the Steady Beat/Pulse
- Music vs. Noise
- Three “S’s” – Start together, Stay together, Stop together
- Personal Steady Beat/ Ensemble Steady Beat
- Melding Steady Beat with Quarter Note
- Relating notation to Language Arts
- Introducing new rhythms and notation
- Clefs
- Time Signatures
- Repeat sign vs. Double Bar Line
- Adding rhythms incl. Syncopation
- Tempo
- See the beat, Hear the beat, Feel the beat
- Melodic Connections
- Composition: Rhythms and Melodies
- Beginning improvisation
- Transition from syllable counting to number counting
- Steady Beat relative to conducting
Student Engagement:
- Teaching the Whole Child
- “Echo” and “Teach”
- “Answer Board”
- Why a musical vocabulary? Definitions and Meanings
- Your brain as a computer
- Get behind your students
- Games
- “Echo Words”
- “TEACH!”
- “Say-Spell-Say”
- “ROOOO-tate”
- “Flash Round”
- “Ski Relay”