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How to write a Lesson Plan for Classroom Music
This article gives some guidelines on how to write a lesson plan for a classroom music lesson. What to watch out for, and the steps to take to ensure that your music lessons are both educational and enjoyable for the students.
1. Think about, and if necessary research the age group of the students you are teaching. All students are not the same, and each age group has different needs.
2. Write down three things that students will like about the subject you are planning to teach. Don’t worry about how they will fit into the lesson, just write them down.
3. Collect resources you need on the subject matter of the lesson. Make sure that the subject matter is interesting in itself to the students Read the rest of this entry »
Piano Lessons: The keyboard and musical notes
In this piano course we will start by describing the element of piano used by musicians to perform music. This is none other than the piano keyboard. Also learn the musical notes, but not their spelling and reading, but from the point of v ista their place in the piano keyboard.
We will see the seven natural sounds, their position on the keyboard. We leave for later altered sounds that are a bit more complex. It shows the layout of the keys on a piano.
The piano keyboard.
The first thing we can see, looking at Figure 1, the keyboard is that there are groups of two and three black keys alternate. That is precisely the pattern of keys that are repeated, those included in group two and three black keys.
Thus we have seven sounds: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA and SI. These sounds are only seven, and to cover all the keyboard keys have to be repeated. In short, these seven sounds are repeated but in different tones sounding, more acute or more severe.
Piano Lesson – The staff
The pentagram is the symbol which focuses all the musical script. This is where you write the musical notes and other musical symbols such as bars or formulas to measure. The staff is composed of five horizontal and parallel lines, also equidistant.
These five parallel liner are four spaces between them. These spaces are also located the musical notes. In practice, we say that there are five lines and four spaces These lines and spaces are named from bottom to top, so, for example, further down the line we can name as the first line. A musical pentagam with its lines and spaces designated as described in the theory.
Figure 1. The staff. 5 lines, 4 spaces.
In this musical staff can be added more lines and spaces through what is known as additional lines. Sometimes the notes beyond the scope of the staff, which is why it is necessary to use these additional lines. Musical notes that exceed the staff.
The bass sounds are written in the lower part of the staff. As a musical sound becomes more acute, your letter goes up through the musical staff. On the other hand, it is recommended that the notes exceed four or five lines of the staff.