Take a Song
Chicken in a Fence Post
The key to a good teaching is a solid
core of a sequential list of elements and good pedagogical practices. For me
that is definitely a teaching sequence based on hear, feel, see and write where
concepts are prepared, named and then practiced. Here, I will focus on the practicing of elements through the
use of just one song.
2. Sing in Solfa
3. Sing in Rhythm Names
4. Sing with text, solfa and rhythm names (Switcheroo)
5. Create New Words – keeping as close as possible to the rhythmic pattern.
Here are
some ideas....
- Music teacher stressing can’t sleep at all x3 Time to have a holiday!
- Marsha, Jan and Cindy, Bobby , Peter x3 Greg and Alice, Mum and Dad
7.
Missing notes
8. Find
the mistakes
9.
Play on boomwhackers
10.
Play on tuned percussion
11.
Create rhythmic ostinati
12.
Create melodic ostinati
13.
Create arrangement
14.
Aural Analysis - questions like...
What is the metre? How many beats in the song? how many phrases? How many different notes? What notes do you hear? What is the final note? what is the starting note?...
15. Written Analysis - instructions and questions like...
Circle the time signature. How many bars? Find the double bar line? Circle two notes that are next to each other and a major second apart. Are there any bars that are the same?...
16. Writing – the rhythm
17. Writing – the solfa under the rhythm
18. Writing – the song on the staff
19. Writing – transposing from one position on the staff to another
20. Writing – the stems onto the note heads on the staff