Music Adventures with Paige Moore LPM3: Orange Roots #5

NEED TO KNOW

Orange Roots #5: Thank you for coming to class this week! It is seriously amazing how much your kids knos. I loved watching them jump into and totally rocking playing in G Major for the first time!

COMPOSITION TIME!: I am so excited about meeting with your kids next week for composition! There will be no regular class, but bring your students at their assigned times and we'll get to work! Please send your child with their Orange Roots Songbook and their Orange Roots Workbook. Have them come upstairs to the classroom and wait on the couch when they arrive. That will help keep me on schedule! If grownups want to come in also, you're totally welcome! But it's not necessary. Your student is ready to create. Here's the lin k to sign up and/or check the times for your Private Lesson.

FREE VIDEO: The Let's Play Music company is celebrating Valentine's Day by giving a free video to each family enrolled in LPM. Go to this link to choose the video, and use the code FREE VIDEO. You will have access to the video for four weeks. This is a great option to check out the videos and see what the setup is like.

TUITION: Thank you for paying tuition on time! If you didn't get it in, I'll send a request/reminder.

GOOD TO KNOW

COMPOSITION: The composition is a culminating project for your Let's Play Music student! We have been experiencing, internalizing, and now labeling many things over the past three years. Your student can use any or all of: major and minor, time signatures, chord uses and sounds, ABA song form, staccato and legato, theme and variation, block, broken, and marching chords, etc. It is so fun to have each student have a song that is uniquely their own! If your student has everything filled out and a motif idea written down, they're going to be great! If your student has nothing filled out and nothing written down, they're going to be great too! And if they're somewhere in the middle (most of them!), they're going to be great! I promise they're ready to write a song. If they (or you!) would feel better with some pre-private-lesson help, the LPM company has released the online video lessons of composition preparation. Check them out!

Here is a link to the composition overview. (This is the entire virtual Lesson #6 available for everybody)

Here is a link to a video about composing starting with a melody.

Here is a link to a video about composing starting with rhythm.

Here is a link to a video about composing starting with chords.

MAGIC KEYS: This song from Purple Magic semester has returned with more information! As we continue to sing (and play!) this song, we will further expand our understanding of key signatures and note relationships. This is the KEY to transposing music! The new verse allows us to understand and play in the key of G Major. It was so fun watching them play the G Major cadence with such flair! Here is a link to a parent help that dissects the lyrics of Magic Keys with visual examples and explanations to better help you understand the theory concepts we are learning in class.

NOTE NAMING: Note naming is a skill that takes time (years!) to fully develop, and we will work on them often. Some kids will thrive with timing, others will be paralyzed. So definitely include note naming activities in your weekly practices, but do so the way that helps your kid the best. If you time these at home, write the time in the practice book and I'll give a sticker for it. If you work with the flashcards or apps or the teeny tiny cards in the next link, write that down and I'll give a sticker for that too. We use notenaming skills all the time, so it's important to feel confident with them. Here is a great blogpost on different activities that can help reinforce this skill. We passed out Itty Bitty flashcards during Purple Magic. If you need another set, let me know and I'll send some home with your student. As a reminder, I outlined my favorite notenaming apps on this post.