PA Primer: All My Friends and Rhythm Review

 This post includes activities that correlate with "All My Friends" in Piano Adventures Primer.

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Click the links below to watch the Adventure Learning Videos play along with backing tracks or try the super student challenges. 

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PA Primer: Into the Cave/3 Kittens, Black Key Groups, High/Low

This post includes activities that correlate with "Into the Cave" and "3 Little Kittens" in the Piano Adventures Primer lesson book.

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Click the links below to watch the Adventure Learning Videos  or try the super student challenges. 

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Games

MLC Storm Chasers 1 - Hearing High and Low

Improvisation

Activity 1: C Pentascale Improvisation

Create your own melodies by playing the notes from the C pentascale in any order (CDEFG) as you listen to the backing track.

Ukulele

Little Idea

Hey!

A New Beginning

Buddy

Tenderness

Once Again

 

Retro Soul, A Day to Remember

A Day to Remember

Activity 2 Colors of the Wind

Clap the rhythm of the phrase "You think you own whatever land you land on." from Pocahontas's Colors of the Wind Song. Then create melodies on black keys in any order using the same rhythm.

Choose a theme and your own words if you would like. For example:

• What's your dream vacation? "My dream vacation would be to Hawaii (or any other 3-syllable destination)"
• What did you eat for breakfast? "For breakfast, I had yogurt and some orange juice."
• What do you wish you could do after piano lessons? "I wish that I could go and eat some ice cream."

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Piano Adventures 3B: Rhythm Puzzles and Sixteenth Notes

 This post includes lesson plans for "Sixteenth Notes" in Piano Adventures 3B.

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Tap the rhythm as you listen to Rhythm Puzzle. Write the "rhythm bug" words above the measures in your music. (Bug? Beetle? Grasshopper? Caterpillar? Butterfly?).

Piano Adventures 3B: Legend of Madrid and Grace Notes

 This post includes lesson plans for "Legend of Madrid" in Piano Adventures 3B.

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Listen to Legend of Madrid to hear the example of the cadenza played.

Piano Adventures 3B: Cat Patrol and D.S. al Coda/ Articulation

 This post includes lesson plans for "Cat Patrol" in Piano Adventures 3B.

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Listen to Cat Patrol as you follow along in your music.

Piano Adventures 3B: Finale and Lead Sheets

 This post includes lesson plans for Dvorak's "Finale" from the New World Symphony in Piano Adventures 3B.

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Watch  Dvorak's Finale to see an example of how to play this piece with a lead sheet.

Listen to the first part of the orchestral original version of Dvorak's Finale to the New World Symphony.

Listen to the  Classics for Kids podcast About Dvorak (Dvorak Coloring Page, MMF Dvorak Word Search).

Piano Adventures 3B: Energico and A Natural/Harmonic Minor Scale

 This post includes lesson plans for "Energico" in Piano Adventures 3B.

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Listen to Energico as you label the left-hand chords in your music.

Piano Adventures 2B: Lazy Chord Blues and Primary Chords

 This post includes lesson plans for "Lazy Chord Blues" in Piano Adventures 2B.

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Listen to Lazy Chord Blues as you label the primary chords in your music.

Piano Adventures 2B: Pumpkin Boogie and Eighth Rests

 This post includes lesson plans for "Pumpkin Boogie" in Piano Adventures 2B.

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Listen to Pumpkin Boogie as you tap the rhythm with the correct hand.

Piano Adventures 1: Girl and Boy on a Bicycle and Tonic/Dominant

 This post includes lesson plans for "Girl/Boy on a Bicycle" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Listen to Girl on  Bicycle and Boy on a Bicycle as you tap the quarter notes loudly and the longer notes softly. Focus on balance in this piece by playing the moving melody notes faster than the long harmony notes.

Piano Adventures 1: 2 Note March and Tonic/Dominant

 This post includes lesson plans for "2 Note March" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Listen to Two Note March as you sing the words of the song, and then sing and sign the solfa (So, So, So, So, So, Do, Do, etc. ).

Piano Adventures 1: Party Song Flats/Crossovers

 This post includes lesson plans for "Party Song" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Listen to Party Song as you color all of the flats in your music.

Piano Adventures 1: Paper Airplane and Treble CDEFG

 This post includes lesson plans for "Paper Airplane" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Sight sing using solfa as you listen to Paper Airplane (Do, re, mi, fa, so, fa, mi, re, do, mi, so etc.).

Piano Adventures 1: C's Rock and C Landmark Notes

 This post includes lesson plans for "C's Rock" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Listen to C's Rock as you tap the rhythm with the correct hand.

Piano Adventures 1: The Haunted Mouse and Staccato vs Legato

 This post includes lesson plans for "The Haunted Mouse" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Can you rub your belly while tapping your head? Listen to the video of The Haunted Mouse  and for each of the measures with tied notes  in the left hand, rub your belly and tap your head to the rhythm as you say “Hold, tap, tap, tap slug, slug.”

Piano Adventures 1: Mexican Jumping Beans and Staccato

 This post includes lesson plans for "Mexican Jumping Beans" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Watch the video of Mexican Jumping Beans  and sing the pentascales in your song solfa style (Do, re, mi, fa, so, so, so, etc.) with a staccato (short and separated) voice. 

Real Mexican Jumping Beans

Improvisation

Watch Create First Hot Sands/Cool Waters Duet and Solo  Videos to hear examples of staccato (hot sand) and legato (cool water). Then create your own song on the black keys that includes both staccato and legato sections.

Supplementary Music

“Monsters on the Run” - Piano Safari

“Sneaky Ape” - Piano Safari

“My Little Chicken” - Rote Piece

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12 Ferris Wheel and Damper Pedal

15 Haunted Mouse and Staccato vs Legato

16 Classic Dance and 3/4 Time Waltz

Free Piano Lesson Book Plans

Teaching 4 Types of Staccato

PA Unit 1 Staccato and Legato Teaching Tips

Piano Adventures 1: Ferris Wheel and Damper Pedal

 This post includes lesson plans for "Ferris Wheel" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Watch the video of Ferris Wheel as you tap “Down, up, up” to the beat.  When does he lift his wrist?

Piano Adventures 1: Sailing in the Sun and Slurs

 This post includes lesson plans for "Sailing in the Sun" in Piano Adventures 1.

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Listen to the audio of Sailing in the Sun as you follow along in your music.  Slide your hands against each other on the slurred notes and clap on the notes without slurs.

Piano Adventures 2A: Moonlight Melody and Phrasing, Balance

 This post includes lesson plans for "Moonlight Melody" in Piano Adventures 2A.

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As you listen to the audio for Moonlight Melody,listen for which hand plays the melody in each line of your music.  Color the harmony notes yellow and play them softer than the melody.

Piano Adventures 2A: I am the King and Slurs

 This post includes lesson plans for "I am the King" in Piano Adventures 2A.

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Draw phrase marks and circle the 4  G pentascales in your music as you listen to I Am the King.

Listen to the podcast Classics for Kids What is a Fanfare?