Tsuki: A Japanese Folk Song
Learn this beautiful Japanese song with the steps below to develop your musicianship skills. Tsuki Performance Watch this beautiful performance of Tsuki: Learn Tsuki It’s…
Category: Kodály
Pentatonic Intervals
In this post I’ll give you take you through an approach to teaching the intervals in the pentatonic scale.
Kodály Christmas 2
Sleeping a in Stable I’d like to tell you a sad story about my composition, Sleeping a in Stable… with a happy ending! I wrote Sleeping…
Winter Elves… are out tonight!
I LOVE Goblins are Around Tonight which appears in David Vinden’s Songs for Singing and Musicianship. I changed the lyrics to make them cute and…
I’m Bound Away: A Shanty Great for Tam-ti
As well as being a beautiful sea shanty, it’s excellent for teaching the dotted crotchet and quaver rhythm: tam-ti. Below I’ll give you ideas for…
Step Back Baby: Teaching ti-tika and tika-ti
My last few blog posts have been about more complicated rhythms and how we can guide our students to discover them using a Kodály inspired approach. …
Microsteps to Syncopa: as easy as uno, dos, tres, cuatro…
Microsteps to Syncopa: as easy as uno, dos, tres, cuatro...
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…
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 …