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Friday, April 9th, 2010Here is a little excerpt from our Fact Sheet on Rock and Roll Music. This comes from our Music Lesson plan series on the history of Rock and roll. Did you know that Rock and Roll or Pop music didn’t even exist until the 1950s? The only music that existed before that was Classical, Jazz, [...]
A Suggested Listening List for early Rock and Roll music in the classroom
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Here are a few suggested listening tunes if you are teaching about early Rock and Roll music in the music classroom. This is just a taste of what is to come in our History of Rock music lesson plans from the Fun Music Company. These lesson plans include listening lists like this for every lesson, [...]
Picking Great Action Songs for your Educational Music Games
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Teaching music to children can be a very challenging task since kids have very short attention span. If children in your class are bored they will quickly get fidgety and disruptive to the rest of the class. If you use your creativity in music classes like this you’ll quickly become a very effective teacher. Using [...]
A Listening Activity about early Rock and Roll Music
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010The “Duck Walk” was a unusual dance move made famous by Chuck Berry. A music lesson plan about early Rock and Roll music can be much more entertaining if you use this idea and expand on it in music class. After you’ve watched some videos of Chuck Berry doing his trademark “Duck Walk” you could [...]
A Lesson Plan All about early Rock and Roll
Monday, April 5th, 2010Here are a few ideas that you could use if you are teaching a class about early 1950’s rock and roll in the music classroom. There are going to be plenty more of these when we release our next module of lesson plans on the History of Rock and Roll. 1) Work in groups to [...]
Teaching Issues with Music Theory Fun Sheets
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Teaching Questions Would this product be suitable for one on one studio lessons? Of course! Some of the products are more suitable than others, for instance Musical Terms for the Digital Age is highly appropriate for private studio teachers preparing students for theory exams. We have tried to make instant print music lessons universally adaptable [...]
Technical Q&A about Music Theory Fun Sheets
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Technical Questions How long do i need to wait until I get access to the product, and do I need to wait for email confirmation? Our members area uses the Amember management system – this allows you to choose your own username and password, and once your payment is confirmed you should be able to [...]
The Right Tools for Music Theory are very important
Monday, March 29th, 2010I don’t know how many times I have found a student using a pen or inappropriate pencil for their music theory homework. Music is an art form, and when writing music on manuscript the dots, lines and curves are a graphical representation of that art. Therefore students need to develop a manuscript style of their [...]
What to do if a student refuses to complete their music theory worksheet
Monday, March 29th, 2010Learning Music Theory is an essential part of becoming a musician. Like it or not, music students are going to have to face the fact that there is no other choice but to sit down with a pencil in the hand and make the music theory study happen. A search for “music theory” on twitter [...]
Making Music Worksheets effective in the music class
Monday, March 29th, 2010There are a great many books and worksheets for the teaching of music theory available. Many of these are excellent, and well written and researched for the instruction of music theory. There is one thing that over everything else makes certain worksheets and educational materials more effective in this area. This one thing is an [...]
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