10 Reasons why you should choose this course:
Real musicianship skills - these lay the foundation for reading and writing music or learning an instrument at age 7.
Tried and tested songs- the songs and rhymes comes form our culture and heritage and have been used for decades by the best musicianship teachers.
Structured - each lesson builds on the learning and activities from the day before.
Progressive - we move from the easy to complex in clear stages
Repetition - children love familiarity.
Action songs - physically engaging
Subject matter - songs are about normal everyday activities that children will relate to.
Confidence - there are opportunities for the children to invent their own actions words so they have ownership of the songs.
Memory & concentration - both skill will be developed and strengthened by copying short melodies and pitch matching. These skills will enhance your child's abilities in other areas of learning too.
Happy - they will make you and your children happy!
Course Curriculum
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- Introduction (4:13)
- Let's Begin Day 1: listen and respond to sung instructions, perform actions in time with song or rhyme (12:15)
- Let's Begin Day 2: listen and respond to sung instructions, perform actions in time with pulse (9:11)
- Let's Begin Day 3: listen for differences in pitch, distinguish between loud and quiet, work in pairs (13:26)
- Let's Begin Day 4: learn to identify and do actions for high and low pitches, learn the word 'pitch', understand the concept of 'heartbeat' (7:18)
- Let's Begin Day 5: recognise different pitches, demonstrate faster or slower heartbeat, find a song's heartbeat (11:07)
- Let's Begin Day 6: learn the word pulse, experience the pulse of known songs through actions, explore different kinds of voice production: whispering/speaking/singing (14:07)
- Let's Begin Day 7: distinguish between a song and a rhyme, pitch, voice-types and pulse revision (15:14)
- Let's Begin day 8: work on actions independently, actions to a faster pulse (15:15)
- Let's Begin Day 9: learn about the thinking voice, walk in time with pulse (12:57)
- Let's Begin Day 10: walking in time with pulse and pulse actions in known songs (16:28)