Classroom Posters

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Reviewing rhythm words

Whole pizza = Whole note
Half pizza... (?)
Quarter Pizza... (?)
Eighth pizza... (?)

Taiko Drumming

After learning the traditional way of aurally learning Taiko drumming, we can then compose our own ideas and then take them home and play them on buckets, pans or boxes.

Melody Builder

Start with notes, then create rhythm... combine any variation of those notes with your rhythm and you have a melody.

This fingering chart was inspired by the Jump Right In series recorder book. Speaking solfege provides more context than note names.

Careful asking a human to "sit up strait." We don't have flag poles in our bodies, we have spines, and the spine does have a natural curve to it. I simply ask them to "Listen to your body" so they can make the micro adjustments. Their body will tell them what it needs if they practice listening to it. This mindfulness practice is great after stretching.

If you are giving your students a rhythmic vocabulary and tonal vocabulary, how do you talk to them about melody?

When I read melodies with my students we break them apart. "Look at the lines" and chant the rhythm! Or "Look at the dots and tell us what is our starting pitch?"

Key signatures can be tricky...
but we can also give our students some tricks.

Students can share their music playlist and catagorize it into different meters...
Duple, Triple, Mixed

If you are audiating you can make music. But if you do not use your brain, you might be a zombie.

Inspired by the work of Andy Mullen

Tonality (modes) Chord Function Posters
Major, Minor, Dorian, Phyrgian,
Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian

Inspired by the work of Dr. Heather Shouldice

Tonalities are like different flavors of ice cream.
The melody (ice and milk) are still present while you change the tonality (flavor of ice cream) making a new kind of flavor.