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Post by petite joueuse on Apr 20, 2007 7:57:50 GMT
I'm looking for tips!
My daughter has (bravely) volunteered to run the absolute beginner recorder group at our music centre. There are about 6 kids, from age 4 to 7, and we tend to use the John Pitts Recorder from the Beginning book.
Can anyone suggest any fun games/techniques to get these kiddies playing?
Many thanks,
PJ
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Post by anacrusis on Apr 20, 2007 15:29:35 GMT
Having never taught a group of kids, I have to say it sounds like the scariest prospect ever - though my guess is that a bunch of apathetic teens might be worse.... I have been thinking about the problem though - someone else will have to tell if the ideas are daft. I wondered about passing a note around - play an A, turn to face another player and get them to "catch" it, perhaps to a rhythm (get the class to tap one with feet, or use a metronome?), then "pass it on" to someone else: or building a note up - one starts, and the others join in one by one....then if you have a couple or more notes, playing copycat - teacher plays A, kids copy, teacher plays G, kids copy, teacher plays A again, and build it up with more notes? Perhaps doing the same with short and long notes, and tonguing/legato...just to get them making a nice noise? Or does that all sound like pie in the sky nonsense? I think it might help to get kids listening to what they play; means would then need to be found to linking that to dots on a manuscript - would there be a board to write on? I'm sure the most difficult thing will be engaging kids with different aptitudes - I know our primary school made a half-hearted attempt to teach the kids recorder in Primary three, and they gave up after half a term, their own apathy feeding the kids' lack of interest, grrrr.  |
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