Tempos in First Steps
During First Steps, students are discovering tempos in their musical experiences, learning names, and associating tempo names with different tempos. Games begin in Second Steps.
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Learning Tempos
Students learn all eleven of the most common tempos using symmetry, logic, a little knowledge of Italian and a bit of guessing that develops bravery
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Singing Tempos
Together, teacher and students sing "do do so so" in each of the 11 tempos beginning with a very slow largo and finishing with a very fast prestissimo
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Fine - Tempos
Students quickly arrange their own sets of tempo cards in order . . . then say Fine!
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