The Bell Practice for "I've Been to Harlem" in Lesson 6 and 7 says to play the bells while you play each verse! In this video, Miss Kendra (another Let's Play Music teacher) and her son, Carson, play and sing the Major verse, then switch the bells and do the Minor verse.
If you don't have three mallets at home, you can use another object, like an unsharpened pencil or a wooden spoon handle to play all three bells at the same time. Fun, isn't it?
Monday, February 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Bells are ringing!
Each Let's Play Music student gets his or her own set of tone bells. They love playing, singing, and learning with them!
Isn't it cool how the bells can be moved around?
They also have the Solfeggio scale (Do, Re, Mi...) engraved on them.
"Children quite naturally listen, sing, dance, play, and express themselves musically, with little or no previous training. When learning experiecnes are tailored to develop their musical abilities, then the complete musicians inside them begin to emerge." (from Music in Childhood by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Carol Scott-Kassner)
During the first year of Let's Play Music, students practice their bells at least once a week at home (or more!). Then in the second year the skills they learned on the bells transfer easily to the keyboard.
During class this week the children each got a turn to play the "red" chord in pieces on the bells: DO-MI-SOL. The rest of the class sang, "Goodbye, Old Paint." It's kind of a sad song about a cowboy saying goodbye to his horse.
The students are learning to keep a steady beat.
They are also learning about chords and harmony.
It's so exciting to me to see how much the children learn when we're having fun!
"The most successful lessons spring from the selection of a concept, embedded in a song or musical piece, which is then reinforced and expanded on through a variety of instructional strategies." (from Music in Childhood by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Carol Scott-Kassner)
That's exactly what we do!
Keep playing those bells! You're doing great!
Isn't it cool how the bells can be moved around?
They also have the Solfeggio scale (Do, Re, Mi...) engraved on them.
"Children quite naturally listen, sing, dance, play, and express themselves musically, with little or no previous training. When learning experiecnes are tailored to develop their musical abilities, then the complete musicians inside them begin to emerge." (from Music in Childhood by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Carol Scott-Kassner)
During the first year of Let's Play Music, students practice their bells at least once a week at home (or more!). Then in the second year the skills they learned on the bells transfer easily to the keyboard.
During class this week the children each got a turn to play the "red" chord in pieces on the bells: DO-MI-SOL. The rest of the class sang, "Goodbye, Old Paint." It's kind of a sad song about a cowboy saying goodbye to his horse.
The students are learning to keep a steady beat.
They are also learning about chords and harmony.
It's so exciting to me to see how much the children learn when we're having fun!
"The most successful lessons spring from the selection of a concept, embedded in a song or musical piece, which is then reinforced and expanded on through a variety of instructional strategies." (from Music in Childhood by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Carol Scott-Kassner)
That's exactly what we do!
Keep playing those bells! You're doing great!
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