What Music Theory Rock Musicians need to know
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Here are a few basic ideas about what music theory rock music students really need, and what they don’t!
If they are playing drums there is very little point in them learning to read the bass clef or treble clef notes – you’ll want to focus on Drum clef notation and rhythm. Concentrate on the [...]
Music class lesson plans for learning about untuned percussion
Monday, March 15th, 2010Teaching a lesson about percussion in music class? here are a few ideas that are suitable for elementary through to junior high school.
Make a drum! Do this as a demonstration with student participation, or, if you have the resources, let each student make a drum. You will need an empty coffee can or other large [...]
Planning for percussion in the music class
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Teaching a lesson about percussion in music class? here are a few ideas that are suitable for elementary through to junior high school.
You could have the students make their own drums. Do this as a demonstration with student participation, or, if you have the resources, let each student make a drum. You will need an [...]
How Computer Games can help you learn music.
Friday, March 12th, 2010This is a description of how educational music games can help you when learning music.
Who remembers going to traditional piano lessons? Where you had to go to Mrs Jones’s house and sit up straight on the stool, and play the right notes or you’d get a swift ruler tap on the back of the knuckles?
Well [...]
Percussion in the elementary music class
Friday, March 12th, 2010Teaching a lesson about percussion in music class? here are a few ideas that are suitable for elementary through to junior high school.
Music Lesson plans for classroom music.
Making drums is always a fun activity with younger students. Students can make their own drums if you have enough materials, otherwise you could do it as a [...]
Hit, Bang, Scrape – Lesson plans about percussion
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Here are a couple of lesson planning ideas for teaching about percussion in the elementary, middle or even junior high school music class.
Making drums is always a fun activity with younger students. Students can make their own drums if you have enough materials, otherwise you could do it as a class project. You will need [...]
Learning how to read music for a Rock Musician
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010So what do rock musicians really need to know about music theory? and how can we best help our students who really want to be able to read and are prepared to make the effort, but still struggle?
here are some basic ideas to help those students in your classes:
have them learn the bits they need [...]
Learning music the modern way – with computer games!
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Remember old fashioned piano lessons? Sitting up straight on the hard piano bench where the lovely Mrs Smith would give you a gentle tap on the back of the hand with a ruler if you didn’t curl your fingers properly!
Well these days things are a little different and we hope that teachers of piano students [...]
Lesson plan ideas for teaching about untuned percussion
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010In this music lesson plan you’ll find a few ideas for creating a music lesson plan all about untuned percussion instruments.
You could have the students make their own drums. Do this as a demonstration with student participation, or, if you have the resources, let each student make a drum. You’ll simply need a large empty [...]