Let’s Get Started
Let’s Chant
At-Home Activity
Play rhythm patterns on any piano keys with soft fist or fingers. Choose from Du-de Du-de or Du-de Du in Duple meter and choose from Du-da-di Du-da-di or Du-da-di Du in Triple meter. Chant while you play and do your best to strike the key in exact alignment with the rhythm syllable chanting.
Let’s Sing
Let’s Listen
“The Green Caterpillar”
From Keyboard Games Book A, pg. 24
Description:
- Dynamics: A little soft
- Tempo: Slow
- Meter: Triple (Du-da-di Du-da-di)
- Piano Keys Used: Sets of black keys
- Keyboard Register: High and treble
- Hands: Right hand alone moving from one key to the next
- Technique: Arm movement with one finger
Note: Green Caterpillar is a “leveling up” moment in the Keyboard Games A book. It’s a great piece to improvise new ideas that relate to the original piece. After playing the piece as learned, continue creating with the Du-da-di rhythm and the black keys. If you have a damper pedal, add that for a very satisfying sound!
Bonus!
Continue to make creative changes (play it high or lower, faster or slower, change the order of the keys, or add an introduction, ending, or new phrases) to pieces you have learned and are reviewing at home!
From the Author
Following are some of the major concepts of this approach:
Music learning environment:
- An audiation-based music class provides a strong foundation for making progress in music. What a student internalizes is not always visible because of the nature of the learning process.
- Parents can trust that students are gaining invaluable, longlasting music experiences.