Played through some pieces in Bela Bartok for Children. His pieces has unique rhythms and melody. I love the Pentatonic - sounds very oriental. I wonder how pentatonic is related to oriental and how is Bela Bartok fitted into the picture.
Bought this book and Michael Rose's Ten Dances last thursday. I love Michael Rose's pieces , especially the Tango.
Playing new pieces is what I should do as a music teacher. I must keep learning and play new pieces. I am inspired and I am learning new rhythms. I am finding ideas and pieces to teach different students as I keep playing. I want to play different pieces of music everyday.
I have played Michael Rose 's Tango for quite a few students and most of them like it . Generally I am pleased with my students' enthusiasm in lessons after changing my way of teaching. Vivien , whom usually cancel her lesson when school activities clash with her lesson timeslot, but this week she did not cancel though her school activity ended late.
Li Hang has been excited and enjoyed the lessons. I am pleased that while listening to him played Military Minuet and thinking of a way to get him to play the semiquavers evenly, ideas of playing the semiquavers in a inverted pattern brought surprise and a new interest in a piece which he has been practising for quite a while.
I was teaching another few students without music notations . During the lesson I wanted to teach The Sound of Music's Doe Re Mi. Aural training is taught as I played the piece as a whole, then followed by one phrase for my student to play back . At the end of the piece we explored two different endings. One ending plays a C Major contrary motion scales while another ending we explored a chromatic scales beginning on C in contrary motion. We discussed the effect of the two.My student made her choice for one while we both conclude that the chromatic scales added "scherzando" to the piece.
It was fun and creative to play on the keyboard to mimic trains, birds, elephants etc.
For the beginners , I really enjoyed using Piano Adventures A Disc. I used to be quite reliant on books. Today I managed to teach aural and rhythm in a fun way by playing the CD and asking my student to copy the horn by playing on the 2 black keys and 3 black keys.
I have so much more that I do not know how to teach and I know I have lots of teaching strategies to learn.
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