Teaching music students about the Double Bass and Cello?

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

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Classroom Games – Articulation and Dynamics Game

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

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A classroom game – The Song Puzzler

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

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Learning about the Double Bass and Cello

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. Learning about the parts of the instruments is easy if you play this game: play Pin the Parts on the Double Bass or Cello (a variation on Pin the Tail

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Classroom Games for Music Lessons – Four Corners.

This is a game that was submitted for our substitute lessons ebook Instrument 4 Corners For this game you will need four posters which represent the strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion instrument families of the orchestra. Then you play an orchestral CD and when the students hear the instrument, they decide which instrument family it 

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