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Reading Rhythm and Previous Knowledge
If a student already knows the names of the rhythm ingredients (whole through sixteenths) can we use those or should we actively use the informal terminology anyway before the note naming process? This comes up from time to time with students with prior experience! Personally,…
- Last updated 11 months ago
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Shoo-Fly Rhythm
I came up with a new thing to help with the different but similar rhythms in Shoo-Fly (Level 5): Banana (G-B-G) & grape grape grape grape (G- Bbx4) Apple (B-G) Banana (G-B-G) Students often get confused with the similar little phrases… banana and apple helped…
- Last updated 4 years ago
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Triplets
Just wondering when do triplets get introduced in the curriculum? For some reason I did not see them in RR. Are they mentioned later in context of a specific song? I believe the first time they appear is in Blues & Improv “hickory” rhythm. But…
- Last updated 4 years ago
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Blues Scale Fingering
Is there anywhere in the program that explains how to count and play triplets? (of quarter, eighth or 16th notes)? When doing the blues improv in some keys, like Eb, the blues scale notes don’t seem to fit with I, IV, V. In other keys…
- Last updated 4 years ago
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Teaching dotted note rhythms
I am working with another class on Reading Rhythm. We’re at dotted notes and up to now, I have not mentioned anything about counting “1 & 2 &” etc. For a dotted quarter note, do you guide them to feel “left, right, left…” for the…
- Last updated 7 years ago
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