Going beyond tika-tika: which rhythms to teach next?
I decided to write my next blog about which complex rhythms you could introduce after tika-tika. Of course, alongside preparing and presenting the ne…
Author: Joanne Raffle
Roads to new rhythms: a Kodály approach to teaching tika-tika
In this blog I'll tell you how I use this song and others to introduce more complex rhythms and why I think Down the Road, in the way I teach it, is s…
Going lo… teaching low so and la
I think Hi Lo Chikalo is great for presenting low so and low la. Below, I’ll show you how I do it and some ideas for practising low so and la with …
Exploring Hi Lo Chikalo
We’ll explore Hi Lo Chikalo, a fun clapping game that is great for rhythm dictation and discovering something new about solfa!
Starlight: Simple to Complex
I just love taking really simple songs that we can use multiple times throughout the journey of students musical education and give them different lea…
Destination: Middle C. A Kodály approach to Letter Names and Clefs… part two
Alongside the work on introducing do re mi on the white keys, we can introduce the musical alphabet which takes us down a path of learning landmark no…
Introducing Letter Names and Clefs… part one!
Your students have been singing in solfa beautifully and know their steps and skips on the keys and the stave... now it's time to learn about letter n…
Preparing Pitch: How to prepare pitch and practical ideas
This blog will explore what it means to prepare our students aurally, physically and visually with practical suggestions for activities
High and Low: The widespread metaphor for pitch
I previously discussed what we can do to prepare children to sing and how to help children sing confidently, but we also need to understand…
Empowering children to sing: achieving success with the cornerstone of the Kodály approach
In the last blog post (catch-up here), we talked about the qualities of speaking and singing and what the differences are. To help our students learn…