reading rhythm
Accelerating reading for band student
My shy, gentle 9th-grade girl student who is about mid-way through TFMM has started high school band playing vibraphone with a drill sergeant teacher who expects her to read sophisticated and complex rhythms and notes, and she is struggling. She said “It’s all been fun…
Reading Rhythm help – rests
Could someone please let me know what you tell your students to do with the lines with bar lines on the right hand side of page 32 in Reading Rhythm? Introducing rest names. It’s just used for students to practice writing rests. I have them…
Student struggling with rhythm
I have a 9-year-old student who just struggles with rhythm. She can’t keep a simple even beat. With a TON of work she gets it, but it doesn’t always stick. I noticed it in a pronounced way when she was with me in a larger…
Using SM sheet music to supplement playing-based learning
I have a piano student who has already been introduced to sight reading from a former teacher. Is there any reason they can’t learn the song via pattern playing first, then switch over to the sheet music instead of waiting until level 4 or 5?…
Advice needed on Reading Program
Dear Fellow Teachers, One of my parents just texted me to say her oldest boy (14) wants to quit lessons. She said she would like both boys (younger one is 12) to stay until they are “reading notes proficiently”, and asked “What will it take…
Read ‘n Play Workbook Volume One
Does this work book start at the same time as students begin RR or is it introduced when they are up to the Naming Notes page? Asking this as I don’t have time to listen to training before a possible issue of the book to…
Transcribing Rhythm in the Reading Program
I have several students that I transferred over from traditional lessons to Simply Music. Two of those students (in a shared lesson) I’ve started on the Reading Rhythm program. I’ve gone through up to the Masters of the Rhythm project, and I am having trouble…
Teaching Ties and Dotted Notes
Can anyone give me some tips on teaching dotted notes? I felt like I tried to teach them like Neil does as equal to the notes tied together- and although the concept made sense to them- they didn’t get it very well. Especially the younger…
Reading Success
I posted this to Simpedia recently. I’ve added some thoughts to the email… and answered some other reading related questions here, too! With regard to reading, first we teach students to read rhythm. They begin by feeling the beat by walking. We feel singles, doubles…
Reading Rhythm – transcribing
When teaching reading rhythm I know transcribing is important, but should I expect my students to also transcribe with dotted notes, ties and rests? They can transcribe the basic, but even I struggle with transcribing the added ingredients. (Perhaps I just need to work on…