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Vibrant Music Teaching
HOW TO USE
• Decide which of your students will be participating in the challenge and the start date (making sure this gives you a good end date after 50 days).
• Choose which log you would like to use, the parent initials or description version.
• Explain the rules and “no piano” options to your students.• Stamp the tracking page or add stickers as students complete days.
ASSEMBLY
• Print out a tracking page (page 2) and practice suggestion page (page 3) for each student.
• Print either the parent initial diary (pages 4-5) or the description diary (pages 6-7).
• Put these in your student’s folder or another safe place.
LEARNING OBJECTIVESEstablishing a practice habit is one of the key things we want our beginner students to do. The longer they keep up the habit, the more durable it will be!
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34
5
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89
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1112
1314
15
1617
1819
20
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What about when there’s no piano?1. Do some pages in your theory workbook.2. Listen to your pieces (CD or YouTube) while playing on “air piano”.3. Listen to your pieces while pointing along with the score.4. Practice your note naming flashcards.5. Practice clapping rhythms.6. Practice sight singing using solfa.7. Use a note naming app 8. NinGenius (Apple only)9. Flashnote Derby (Android and Apple)
10. Play Piano Maestro using the on-screen keyboard.11. Borrow a music theory game from your teacher and play it with a friend.12. Ask someone to quiz you on your scales. They can ask you how many sharps or flats, and the
fingering for any scale you know.13. Write down every dynamic and tempo mark you know, without looking in your book.14. Sing your pieces instead of playing them. If there are no words, make up your own!15. Go through your pieces naming all the intervals (distances between notes).16. Learn about a famous composer.17. Read a book about music history or music theory.18. Learn about music time periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic).19. Compose a piece on staff paper. Sing it to yourself to see how it might sound.
What can I play?1. All of this week’s assignments (at least 45 days
must include this).2. Extra practice for anything tricky3. Old pieces that you love.4. All the scales you know.5. A new piece you haven’t started yet.6. Improvise (make it up as you go).7. Compose (make it up and write it down).8. Work out a tune by ear.9. Sightread from a sightreading book or any book
a few levels below your current pieces.10. Play Piano Maestro on the piano ((iPad only)11. Practice note reading with the Note Rush app
(Android & Apple).12. Learn duets with a friend.
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Practice DiaryDescribe what you practiced each day and ask your parent to check it over.
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Practice DiaryDescribe what you practiced each day.
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