Unit 2 Games

 

1. DS – Dictation and Sight-Singing 

• Develop listening skills by recognizing different intervals through singing
• Sing intervals, triads and/or scales using solfege and Curwen hand signs 
• Sing with a steady beat
• Write intervals and/or melodic patterns on the staff / paper piano using steps and skips
• Sing and write melodic patterns in minor keys

 

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2. AI – Alphabet and Intervals

• Introduce the interval of a third using cards, staff and/or instrument
• Learn thirds forwards and backwards
• Practice the interval of a third using cards, staff and/or instrument

 

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  3. RR – Reading Rhythms 

• Learn the vocabulary of blue jello words/hand signs to help understand the shapes of notes and rests
• Learn to think, feel and see rhythm as note groups (like words) rather than individual notes or rests
• Learn how to count and identify beats in a rhythmic pattern
• Learn to relate blue jello rhythm symbols to actual notes and rests
• Learn the mathematical relationship of the various notes and rests 
• Take rhythmic dictation 
• Read and/or perform rhythmic patterns by signing or clapping or with students’ instrument
• Learn time signatures and be introduced to conducting patterns

 

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  4. RM – Rhythm Math

• Reinforce the concepts learned with the blue jello cards
• Learn the value of notes and rests using magic notes and gold coin values
• Use addition to determine note and rest values
• Learn dotted notes and study the concept of the dot
• Study note groups within the subdivision of the quarter note beat and all note groups
• Play memory games to quickly recognize notes, rests and note groups 

 

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  5. SN – Staff and Notes

• Become faster at locating the Grand Nine Notes on the grand staff
• Become proficient with open strings and how notes relate to the strings
• Begin to know all the notes on the grand staff using intervals from Grand Nine Notes
• Relate notes to piano and/or students’ instruments

 

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  6. T – Tempos 

• Learn the meanings and pronunciations of tempos
• Learn the symmetrical sequence of tempos
• Learn to interpret tempos in printed music
• Learn to identify tempos through listening  

 

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 7. MS – Music Symbols 

• Learn the meanings of signs, symbols, and terms in the music symbol cards set 2
• Relate the symbols to sound and/or musical scores

 

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 8. SK – Scales and Key Signatures 

• Relate musical tones to the sequence of keys on the keyboard
• Practice the whole step and half step sequence of the major scale
• Learn and write C, G, D, and A major scales on the staff, on the keyboard, and/or with cards
• Learn and write F, Bb, and Eb major scales on the staff, on the keyboard, and/or with cards
• Learn key signatures and how to write them on the staff
• Practice scales and/or key signatures for fluency

 

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9. TC – Triads and Chords 

• Practice spelling thirds beginning on a variety of notes
• Learn major and minor thirds, their hand signs and how to write and identify them on the staff and keyboard
• Learn to identify major and minor thirds by listening
• Learn the four kinds of triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented) with a root on C, their hand signs, and how to write them on the staff and the keyboard
• Learn to identify major, minor, diminished and augmented triads by listening