RR
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…
Reading Rhythm – dotted notes and ties
My first student is at the end of Reading Rhythm! Question: for the student, dotted notes and ties aren’t as confident as I wish they’d be. What would you do in this case (he has no trouble with rests)? Would you move on anyway to…
Reading Rhythm for students with prior experience
I have a brother/sister shared lesson who can read music (although not confidently) and I’ve just assigned their first MOR. Next would be to ask them to take the rhythms to the keys over 5SS. Being that they can read music, would you still do…
Help in confidently teaching Reading Rhythm
I need some help in teaching the Reading Rhythm course. I am beginning my second year with Simply Music and I love it. Now it’s time to start several students into RR. One student is an adult, played in the school band, and is familiar…
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…
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…
Overwhelmed with All These Streams
How do you guys do this? I spend HOURS and HOURS learning these different streams, and planning them into lessons. I’m just about to start learning Foundation 5 (I have two students right on my tail) and I can now see how wrong I’ve been…