Here are a few lesson ideas you could do if you were creating a music lesson about Debussy. These are just a couple of the ideas included in our printable music lesson plans on great composers. In 1889 Debussy attended the World Exposition in Paris where he heard music from many other countries. He was
I came up with this idea so children could experience what it's like to sing and play instruments in a group. First I would teach the class a simple song by rote, I use Yellow Submarine by the Beatles but any fun song will do. If you can play basic chords on the piano or
Here's one thing I like to do when filling in. I'm a studio teacher, so this is a game for a one on one situation. I get the student to give me the piece they know best, then I play it for them with mistakes (eg: a couple of wrong notes, a wrong rhythm, a
Have a look at the length of the string, and discus the effect on its pitch Have the students guess if longer or shorter strings will produce higher or lower sounds. Here is an interesting question to discuss with your students: Why do we use the word “high” to describe pitches of a higher frequency,
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