As a fun end to the school-year term and to celebrate the coming of summer vacation I had a baseball themed lesson for all of my students the first week in June.
Running the Bases Scales Warm-Up - students could walk, run (fast legato), or sneak (quiet staccato) their fingers up a scale and then slide (fastest legato they can) back to home (tonic note). It really gave them a chance to be free and just play on the piano without too much structure and many came back the next week showing me just how smooth they got their slides!
Baseball Site Reading - Students site read simple pieces like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "Base-ball Days" from John Thompson's Teaching Little Fingers to Play, and "School's Out!" from Tune Time by Frances Clark.
Theory Games - We played Bass Clef Baseball at www.musictechteacher.com and utilized Susan Paradis' "Let's Play Ball" worksheet.
Thank You- I sent them each home with a box of Cracker Jacks with a little personalized "You're A Hit!" note.
Running the Bases Scales Warm-Up - students could walk, run (fast legato), or sneak (quiet staccato) their fingers up a scale and then slide (fastest legato they can) back to home (tonic note). It really gave them a chance to be free and just play on the piano without too much structure and many came back the next week showing me just how smooth they got their slides!
Baseball Site Reading - Students site read simple pieces like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "Base-ball Days" from John Thompson's Teaching Little Fingers to Play, and "School's Out!" from Tune Time by Frances Clark.
Theory Games - We played Bass Clef Baseball at www.musictechteacher.com and utilized Susan Paradis' "Let's Play Ball" worksheet.
Thank You- I sent them each home with a box of Cracker Jacks with a little personalized "You're A Hit!" note.
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