Curriculum
Minimum age to start Accompaniment Stream
Is there a minimum age you would suggest for students to start the accompaniment stream? I teach a family of 3 brothers age 5, 7 and 9. The 9 yr old has begun F2, the 5 and 7 yr old are nearly done F1. I…
Accompaniment and Inversions
A recent thread raised the question of how and when to teach chord inversions. I’m not sure whether that question was answered in full, and in addition there were some comments made about split chords and their relationship to inversions which I thought were not…
Accompaniment 1 – Ratios
First hiccup in this program and I would love some advice! Just working with a pupil through the Triads, both Black and White, and the concept of the 1-2 Ratio for the 4/4 Time Signature(4 on the top line). I feel our issue has come…
Accompaniment and Amazing Grace in Level 2
I am trying to figure out what to do with the Amazing Grace in Level 2. I have started the Accompaniment program with many of my groups at the end of Level 1 or towards the beginning of Level 2. I think this is a…
Scarborough Fair Left Hand Position
I’m a new teacher, and my studio is in the very beginning stages of Accomp. 1. For the songs in major keys, I’ve had the students keep LH finger 5 on I, so that finger 2 and 1 play IV and V in every key…
Processing I, IV and V
I’m about to “find” and “process” I IV V for the first time. Two questions. 1) So far, we’ve had students stick to the range from E above middle C to F below for all their accompaniment chords. There is therefore a choice to be…
Finding I, IV and V
What do you find is a good pace for the typical student age 9+ to go through finding all keys of Amazing Grace, Auld Lang Syne and Danny Boy in the Accompaniment 1 program before proceeding to anything beyond that point? I find changing the…
Developing I, IV, V
In the Accompaniment 1 Program, when having the student process I, IV, V , is it better to choose one key per week to have the student transpose their accompaniment songs into (i.e. play AGrace, ALSyne, DBoy all in the key of F, then the…
More on Developing I, IV, V
When I assign straight shaped chords, it’s two songs, one of which they can already play in their sleep. They come back the next week completely finished with that project. When I assign triangles, it’s the same two songs, in different keys. They come back…
Acc 1 – Last Song – Danny Boy
I worked my way through the Accompaniment 1 program a while ago but I’m still trying to successfully play the last song, Danny Boy. In measure 9, it has Db+. What does this mean? Plus what? Is this a typo? Also, can someone explain the…