Right- brain activities
Turn on the right brain, cultivate, nurture and develop it, children will be play expressive, really musically. Present the objects imaginatively, that right brain jump up, then activate the left brain and tidy it up with some technical help. But start to place right-brain work where it is centre of our teaching.The three enormously important right-brain activities :Aural,memory and improvisation all draw upon and excite the imagination and they form a permanent source from which all our teaching should flow. this constant right-brain work,together with continually making connections , will begin to cause our child to thinking musically, thought like a musician, intuitively beginning to understand how it all fits together, concern for tone quality, playing a phrase particularly artistically with a shape personality , making a music comment or observation.here is some useful Right-brain activities:
Teaching to hear a scale internally
to sing scale patterns
to play a scale with a deliberate wrong note student identifying it
to improvis/compos in the key using scale patterns
to choos a well - known tune and playing it in the key by ear
to encouraging student to talk about and describe the characteristics of a scale as if they were describing a friend (including particular fingerings and technical ingredients,key signature and any other interesting features)
to play scales in the style of the piece or in the style of the composer.
Left-brain activities
such as teaching all aspects of technique and working with notation. The left side, musically speaking is in charge of reading and
technique.bellow is often use left-brain activities
Teaching The Key signature
The note names
Scales from notation
Writing scales down
Working at the technical element
Student-based activities
Left-brain
1,What notes make up the scale? Learn to say them up and down
2,Learn to write down the key signature and the scale
3,Play the scale from notation, taking great care to prepare thoroughly first
Right-brain
1,Hear the scale internally; sing it out loud, always pre-hearing each note first
2,Improvise and compose short phrases or tunes in the key
3,Choose a well-known tune and play it by ear in the key.
4,Don’t worry about mistakes –simply attempting to find the right notes is a very useful process
5,Talk about the scale: can student find three or four features that define that scale?
Teacher-led activities
1,Play scales to your students making deliberate mistakes let student have to identify the errors
2,Teach simple and effective studies in the key
3,Compose short exercises,or teach suitable exercises or studies,that help pupils to overcome particular technical manoeuvres.
Activities without the music
1,Choose the piece's ingredients and using them make up a short and simple piece.
2,Practise the scale and arpeggio of the piece slowly, with your best tone quality and in the style of the piece
3,Think about the title of the piece.Make up a short and simple piece using the same title.
4,Practise any bar(or bars)that you can from memory with your eyes closed
5,Using the time signature of the piece make up a simple rhythm and write it down
Activities with the music
1, choose a passage and play it loudly ;quietly;with a crescendo;with a diminuendo; as written and then from memory.
2,Hear the piece through in your head as best you can
3,Choose a tricky bar and make up an exercise to help you practise it
4,Play the piece(or part of the piece) through, ignoring all the dynamic markings
5,Choose a bar or two and play one octave higher or lower
6,Make up a story to fit the music
7,Choose a passage or section of piece and practise playing it with as much character and expression as possible
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