Do you want to improve your students’ rhythm skills? Whether you’re a music teacher, instrumental or vocal teacher, Kodály musicianship teacher or a class teacher your students can benefit from this quick and easy rhythm game. If you want to know what the game is, and also why and when to do it, then this …
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Are you on the hunt for modes in pop songs? They are more common than you think! I’m always on the lookout for interesting elements I can extract for my Kodály musicianship classes and piano students. Plus of course running a Pop Solfa Choir is far more rewarding if you can identify the songs with interest beyond just the melody. Modes provide this interest and reward.
Do you have trouble explaining the difference between pulse and rhythm?
Get physical first with this fun, simple song Helen uses in both her Kodály Musicianship and Piano lessons. Your students will FEEL the difference and you won’t get tangled up with ineffective, wordy explanations.
Developing improvisation with young children is far more achievable than you think. So put away those jazz riffs and use age-appropriate…
Bonding with students is essential to succeed in piano, singing, musicianship or anything really! Bond with your students using Helen’s Balloons game. This month we launched the brand new Doremi Teach: Piano training and community. In the kick-off session I shared my “First Lesson” plan for teaching the piano to young beginners. Our training is …
This week Helen is preparing the live Zoom launch sessions for the teachers enrolled on Doremi Teach: Piano. One of the activities will be to brainstorm exactly what we are teaching in a piano lesson. I set a timer for 5 minutes and scribbled down whatever popped into my head. All the things I’m working …
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2021 has a seriously big silver lining. (We’re really good at identifying the positives at Doremi Connect!) Sure, choirs and orchestras have had their rehearsals put on pause, singing in schools has ground to a halt and summer schools have been cancelled. But the top Kodály educators have really embraced the online world and solfa …
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Our children are curious, adventurous, experimental and playful. Instead of telling them what we want them to know, and expecting them to retain it, we need to curate a playful adventure where they experience and discover.
My sister and I absolutely adored it. We drove my mum so insane with our “tap dancing” around the house that she was forced to send us to tap classes. You can ask HER if that was a good idea! 🤣
Helen Russell (Founder of Doremi Connect) – 27th March 2021 There’s no doubt that music education has suffered dramatically at the hands of our global pandemic. Whilst some students have been lucky enough to continue with private tuition online, the vast majority of our children have been left with nothing. Impacting their musical education and …
