The ideas here are combination of strategies from popular methods like Kodaly, Taneada, and Orff as well as ideas and adaptations we’ve created along the way. The goal of this free training is to show you the guiding principles, methods, and research we use when we create our music lessons. So I’m a long term preschool music teacher,Īnd I’m a classroom teacher turned curriculum specialist,īut since we started working together on our music curriculum for kids, Prodigies, we worked with thousands of classroom teachers, homeschool parents, and early childhood educators to make teaching music fun and accessible while getting some pretty amazing results. Hi! We’ve put together this free training to our top 10 secrets for teaching kids music: for getting your kids to sing in tune and even for developing your child sense of perfect pitch. Decide ahead of time what chord or harmonies you'll be working with (so it's not a free-for-all when the tubes come out)Ĥ.Hey Everyone! Rob Young here, AKA Mr. It's more of a choreographed dance than an all out battle (though the later can be fun when your music ed friends come over for beers and Boomwhackers)ģ. We only hit each other's tubes and only when the other person is ready (holding their tubes out and away from their face)Ģ. To make sure no one gets hurt, you need set up some basic parameters:ġ. Coreograph a dance like the video above Tube Fighting Protocol Challenge them to repeat after you with Kodaly call and response (Ta Ta Ti Ti Ta) or whatever system you like best (Du Du Du De Du, 1 2 3 + 4)Ĥ. Answer questions about the colors, note names, and chordsģ. Getting them to sing with their tubes (hum the lightsaber sound in tune with your tube or sing the notes youĢ. Once they've got their initial ya-yas out with a little tube fighting, You Can Make it More Constructive byġ. It's gotta come and go quick, but music is supposed to be fun!Īnd you can literally smack yourself in the head with a tube and it doesn't hurt. If you're doing this in a music class I know this can get a little crazy, but I personally love organized chaos in my classes. You can almost think of it like "Patty Cake" styled hand slapping songs. Simply by hitting the tubes together (and trying to sing-a-long as well) you're giving your child meaningful and memorable play with pitch. Tube Fighting is a great way to turn every little boys' favorite outdoor activity into a constructive musical (and even dance) performance. pretend that they are swords and use them in a make-believe battle to the make-believe-bitter-end!Īnd if you think that's a ridiculous idea, here's a music teacher and student who pull it off beautifully! 'Tube fighting,' as a lot of the kids call it, is a fun way to constructively do what EVERYONE already wants to do with Boomwhackers. You can just play the natural (not flat) versions of the notes or take it to a piano instead! Boomwhacker Tube Fightsīut back to the lightsaber fighting with my students. If you have a set of bells or Boomwhackers, chances are you've got a C Major set and don't have those notes! Sorry!!! I normally arrange all the music on PsP to fit those notes, but there wasn't anyway around this one. at the end of the second page the music breaks the C Major scale by adding a Bb, an Ab, and an Eb. We all know the theme, so even if you or your students aren't sure about the rhythms (triplet-city), it's an easy song to jump in on.Ī small heads up. Rob walks you through main melody in C Major.ĭownload the Star Wars (Main Theme) Sheet Music in C Major for Chromanotes Boomwhackers and Deskbells. In honor of May the 4th and Star Wars Day, we've got a super fun music lesson teaching the Star Wars Theme & Imperial March by John Williams.
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