Music Adventures with Paige Moore LPM3: Purple Magic #12

NEED TO KNOW

Purple Magic #12: Parents, your students are amazing! I love having them in class and hearing the musical things they can do and having them tell me about the musical connections they've made. They are so much fun!

SHOWTIMES: We did the Showtime for Song of Joy this week. The kids did so good playing as an ensemble! Next class will be the Showtime for Turkey in the Straw. For that song, I'll be looking for them to be able to transpose (playing in both C and F), and being able to play the 2-handed melody. They can absolutely do this already. All I really need to hear is the first line ("MI RE DO DO DO, MI FA SOL SOL SOL" 3-2-1-1-1 with the right hand and 3-2-1-1-1 with the left) in C and then put their hand in F position. They can play more if they want to, but this covers the desigated skill.

PARENT DAY/TUITION DUE: Next week is another Parent Day! Yay! The final tuition installment for this semester will also be due. I'll send an invoice sometime between now and then to remind you.

GOOD TO KNOW

JINGLE BELLS: This fun holiday song gives us a chance to add chords to a melody. Once our fingers get comfortable playing it, we will have another opportunity to transpose from C Major to F Major!

If your child chose chords that were different than what we did in class, that's okay! There isn't just one answer, and reharmonization is a skill used by many musicians. The Beatles and The Beach Boys and many others used fascinating harmonies in songs that could be broken down to basic chords (red, yellow, blue) but that sound much better with some flair.

If they didn't do the homework (writing in the chords to Jingle Bells), I had them mark their songbooks today with colors of the standard harmonization. When they play on their own, they can fancy it up however they want.

FIVE FAT TURKEYS: We love the Five Fat Turkeys song from 1st year! Here is a link to lots of Five Fat Turkey activities for all years of LPM students!