Here are a few simple classroom games you can play to help your students learn about the cello and double bass in the music classroom. To help students learn the parts of the instruments: play Pin the Parts on the Cellor or Double Bass (a variation on Pin the Tail on the Donkey). Simply have
Here’s a listening Game for students to identify different articulations and dynamics. Give the students a worksheet with a few groups of rhythm in 5 crotchets. Then the teacher make up any tunes with 5 crotchet beats rhythm or plays a scale from C to G in different ways. E.g. slur on the 1st two
The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ. Here are a few ideas that you can include in your music lesson plans about these instruments Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard
For this activity, take a simple folk song and print it out without the words. (Like Bingo, Miss Mary Mack...) Then divide the students into two teams. You can then have the students look over the song to familiarize them with it. Ask them to find how many quarter notes?, half notes?, rests?, what’s the
Here are a few ideas for teaching a music class about Tchaikovsky in the classroom. These ideas are taken from the fun music company lesson plan series on the great composers. In 1891, Tchaikovsky went to America to conduct some of his compositions at the opening festival of Carnegie Hall (which was called The Music
Want your students to learn about the string instruments? Take these couple of lesson ideas and inspire your students about violins and violas in your next music class. It will save you time in your Music lesson planning firstly, compare the sizes of violins and violas with other objects of different sizes Show or speak
I just found this STOMP Clip that would provide great inspiration for students in the music classroom of approx junior high school standard. Lesson Plan Ideas Make A STOMP Ensemble Have the class watch a portion of a dvd about the group STOMP. Afterwards, the kids should form small groups and pick out unique objects
To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a coffee can drum (see lessons on Untuned Percussion), pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays a steady drumbeat on it. Students can get into
This is a description of how educational music games can help you when learning music. Who remembers going to traditional piano lessons? Where you had to go to Mrs Jones’s house and sit up straight on the stool, and play the right notes or you’d get a swift ruler tap on the back of the
Teaching a lesson about percussion in music class? here are a few ideas that are suitable for elementary through to junior high school. Music Lesson plans for classroom music. Making drums is always a fun activity with younger students. Students can make their own drums if you have enough materials, otherwise you could do it