Philosophies and Methods
How is Let's Play Music different from any other music curriculum? See for yourself!
Did you just attend a preview class with your child? What exactly did we learn from each activity? Let's break it down!
Let's Play Music
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Keeping a steady beat, patterning, solfege, in-tune singing, building routine
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Hickety Pickety Bumblebee
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Learning names of classmates, exposure to minor 3rd interval, in-tune singing, playing the tone bells
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Tambourine Train
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Keeping a steady beat using whole body, following a given rhythm, experiencing spatial skills by dividing time into equal parts, Dalcroze Eurythmics, minor 3rd interval
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Great Big Red Balloon
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Singing a major scale, introduction to staff function, distinguishing high and low notes, full body involvement
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Scotland's Burning
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Solfege hand signs, audiation (hearing music in head that is not heard by ears)
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Primary Chords Song
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Beginning to distinguish between the 3 most commonly used chords in music (I, IV, and V chords), playing an accompanying instrument while singing, doing fun (and secretly educational!) actions to a song
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Echo Ed
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Experiencing and imitating rhythms before seeing them on paper, developing internal hearing while waiting to echo, keeping a steady beat
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Magical Lamp (puppet show)
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Intelligent listening to classical music, using body to feel the themes in the music, enjoying the different layers of music
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Frog in the Middle
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Feeling a steady beat, self expression, parent/child bonding, experiencing the "mi-re-do" melodic pattern at the end of the song
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Let's Say Goodbye
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Keeping a steady beat, solfege, in-tune singing, building routine
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Wow! All that in just half an hour? Imagine what all 3 years will do for you and your child!
The preview class is just the beginning. See what we will learn in each year of Let's Play Music!
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