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 Christmassy. I found that my students really took to the Winter Elves. I showed them pictures of different winter elves and they had to choose which elves they thought this […]
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The most frustrating thing about Christmas songs is being suddenly asked to teach repertoire with concepts our students haven’t learnt yet; Jingle Bells with dotted rhythms anyone? And if they have a version that has changed the dotted rhythm, we have more problems because they know the sound of the dotted rhythm version! Just before Christmas is not the time to learn new concepts just because it happens to be in a Christmas song.
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