Piano Adventures Lesson Book Level 1 Unit 10 Assignments and Supplementary Activities

Piano Teaching Lesson Plans: G Pentascales

This post includes specific instructions for pieces in the Piano Adventures Lesson Book 1 but many of the activities could also be used with other pieces for landmark notes and scale patterns.

Concept: G Pentascales

UNIT 10: Three G’s on the Grand Staff

Lesson: Red LB 56 Bongo Drummers

• *Say the letter names of the notes as you play the song.

• Game: SP Bass G-Treble F Bingo/Don’t Eat Pete or VMT Landmark Lane

Focus Goal/New Concepts:G Landmarks

Lesson: Red LB 57 G Scales/Chords

• *Practice Snail (60)- Dog(80)-Cheetah (100) style  until you can play the scales and chords at 100bpm.

• Game: Note Reading Ruckus

• Improvise Melodies using the notes from the G major pentascale in any order as you play along with one of these backing tracks from BenSound.com:  Acoustic Breeze, Freedom

Lesson: Red LB 58 Dinosaur Stomp

• Choose a silly action to do on the accents as you listen to the audio. *Can you make the accented notes obviously louder than the other notes by using more arm weight?

• Piano Safari Flamingo Dancers or Cool Songs

Focus Goal/New Concepts:Accents

Lesson: Red LB 59 The Dreydl Song

• *Can you play the song while counting aloud?  Remember the upbeat!

• Online Upbeat Game

Focus Goal/New Concepts: Upbeat

Lesson: Red LB 60  The Bubble

• Label the form of the music and learn one line at a time.  * Did you remember to play all the expressive details (legato slurs, accents, dynamics, tempo marks)?

Additional Lesson Plans:

Unit 1: Legato and Staccato

Unit 2: Treble Spaces

Unit 3: Landmark C's

Unit 4: Intervals

Unit 5: Half and Whole Rests

Unit 6: Sharps and Flats

Unit 7: Tonic and Dominant

Unit 8: The I Chord

Unit 9: The V7 Chord