Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | Orange Roots Lessons

Lesson #13

Our 3rd Year and Bridge Recital is on Friday, April 25th and will begin @ 6:15pm at the church at 2750 North 800 East. Please put it on your calendar! If you'd like to see the 1st and 2nd Year Showcase, it will begin @ 5:30pm. Sound Beginnings kids will be singing 2 songs at the start of the showcase. 

For our recital, I'd like all the students to wear "Sunday Best" dress. So a dress or skirt for girls and a nice shirt and slacks for the boys. We're going to make this a nice event. Everyone else can dress however they want. :)

In 2 weeks (lesson 15), we'll have Celebration Day! Have your kids wear their LPM T-shirts to class that day so we can take pictures to add to the composer wall!

In class this week we got to experience more harmonic dictation. We listened to a MI, RE, DO at the same time as a SOL, SOL, DO. It was quite a challenge, but they did surprisingly well at hearing both parts!

Any changes your child would like to make to their compositions must be given to me by next class. I'm planning to print final copies very soon, so I'd like to be sure they are exactly the way the students want them. Be sure your student is practicing introducing their song each time they practice (which should be minimally once every day).

Don't forget to have your student practice on 3 different pianos and fill out the practice log on page 55. (Follow the instructions on page 54!) I will have a special prize for everyone that has it completed BEFORE the recital! You can schedule a time to use MY piano for one of those if you would like...just let me know!

Remember that when we transpose, we use the same fingerings and same solfege, but just change where we start playing and match the key signature for the new key. 

Yankee Doodle
This familiar favorite will have us adding chords to a melody and learning to improvise in a varied accompanying style.

For extra fun staff practice at home, try our dry erase student magnet board and 3rd year magnet set to practice transposition. Practice making 4-8 note melodies on the staff and then transpose them.
  
https://www.letsplaymusicsite.com/product-page/student-magnet-staff

https://www.letsplaymusicsite.com/product-page/3rd-year-magnet-set

Our Let's Play Music blog has a fun post all about Yankee Doodle and gives all sorts of little known facts as well as ideas to continue practicing through the summer!

Here's a really fun version of Yankee Doodle, trying to rhyme "pony" as opposed to trying to finish the chords!

Here is a link to all the skills videos as well as the link to be able to purchase a class video to make up for a missed class. (tap or scan)

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany :)