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Copy, Transpose, Transfer Sheet

Transposition can be tricky to master, but is an incredibly useful tool later in life. Give your students a head start with this handy transposition worksheet. Includes music and stick notation practice as well!

Get it free HERE

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These interval worksheets begin with aural identification of the intervals, then move to writing the answer onto the staff from a given note in conjunction with aural identification. The aim is to help teach for transfer, i.e. linking sound and symbol as is necessary to be musically literate.

Find them for free HERE

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Newsletter Items for Music Advocacy

 

An ingenious, user-friendly excel document which provides weekly quotes or snippets of information, with an internet source listed for each! Pop one of these in the school newsletter each week to help educate your school community about the importance of music education. Thank you to Kerry Rehn for this incredibly valuable, time saving file!

Download it for free HERE

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Do you ever find, while on a creative streak, that you sometimes neglect your normal routines? Or, perhaps, you have always wondered why you are able to compose at all? Whatever your musings, I would definitely recommend THIS article to anyone who is even remotely curious about the brain and music. It certainly gives you a lot to think about!

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A great range of DIY instruments for you to make with your young students.

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Eric Whitacre's 5 tips to improve your choral singing

1. "Learn as much of the music as you can so that your head isn't buried in your copy."

2. "Read the text, bathe in it and then sing with expression and meaning, and in phrases and lines as the text requires."

3. "Listen to each other: hearing what is going on around you, next to you, near you is just as important as whatever the conductor is doing in front of you."

4. "Make the most of delicious words and consonants, querying the diction with your director for these and vowel sounds."

5. "Enjoy, and let the audience hear and see you enjoy singing; it's one of the most visceral things we can share. I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion."

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Annette, homeschooler and blogger, has made these printable available for free. Use them as flashcards, memory games, matching games...

Find them HERE

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Beautiful free printable calendar - some lovely options to print and motivate you all year! 

Find it HERE