Bridge #10b – Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Bridge Lesson

Lesson #10B

Here is what we did in class this week:

Online Fun:
Note Value Matching (Memory Game)
Beat Value Matching
Flashcards

We made a Counting Pyramid that helped us visualize the counts of each of our note and rest types and how they relate to each other.
Starting from the bottom, there are whole notes/rests (4 counts), dotted half notes/rests (3 counts), half notes/rests (2 counts), dotted quarter notes/rests (1 1/2 counts), quarter notes/rests (1 count), eighth notes/rests (1/2 count) – 1 flag/beam, and sixteenth notes/rests (1/4 count) – 2 flags/beams!
- These counts are accurate as long as the time signature has a “4” as the bottom number. (All the values change if there’s a different number at the bottom of a time signature, but we haven’t talked about this in class yet.)
We played hopscotch again to review the WWHWWWH pattern of a major scale. The kids each got to take turns playing the song on the piano while the others jumped.

We learned how to make wrist circles when we play up and down so we can look professional. Here is a link to see a video that demonstrates this as we play “Capture the Flag”. We want this motion to be smooth and very exaggerated for now. It will settle into a nice professional-looking motion as it gets practiced more over the next several weeks/months.

We built our alphabet on the grand staff using our 5 anchor C’s. We can sing our Music Alphabet song forwards (up) and backwards (down)!

Here’s this week’s homework assignment sheet and we’re doing the BLUE highlights! (You can click the image to open a PDF!)

Remember to help get your child’s C-Major and F-Major exercises and songs passed off by sending me a video of each?(red book, pages 6 through 9 and 10-13)!?(I would like everyone in the class to pass these off!)?I would like them to play the?scales, triads, and progressions?HT?with the backtracks (9-11 for C and 13-15 for F). Arpeggios and inversions?can just be played as written in the book. I would also like them to play all 4 songs on pages 8 and 9?while singing. We will do this for every key we learn! It is best if they can pass off one key before getting too far into the next key. They don’t have to be perfect, but I do need to see that your child understands how to do them and they are trying their best. You can email, text, or Marco Polo those to me. There will be special prizes at the end of the year for passing off all the songs and scales!

Please be sure to do the flashcards! This will help with how fast your child can play the piano. We want to make seeing the note on the staff translate to playing the note on the keyboard happen AUTOMATICALLY! That will happen with practice!

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂