Green Turtles Lesson 8

This week we colored in our music books. This is something that is completely acceptable! As an advanced pianist, I still make notes in my music to help me. We will be doing more coloring in the future!

Celebrate Connection

A few ideas to bring to practice time!

• Play the first measure of a song, *piano* and the next measure *forte*, the next measure *piano*, and the next, *forte*, etc.

• Video record (or voice record) a song and send it to your LPM teacher (or Grandparent!)

• Have a parent sing the words while you play.

Primary Chords Song

Do you want to build more snowmen? Combinations of intervals build chords. We will use ‘snowmen’ to teach the 3 common shapes of chords throughout the 2nd year of Let’s Play Music.

A ROUND snowman shape represents the Red Chord built with two stacks of 3rds.

A TOP-HEAVY snowman shape represents the Blue Chord built with a 4th on the bottom and a 3rd on the top.

A BOTTOM-HEAVY snowman shape represents the YELLOW Chord built with a 3rd on the bottom and a 4th on the top.

We can find melodic patterns in many songs! Feel free to use the melodic pattern flashcards to become pros at hearing, singing, signing, AND playing them! Here are the patterns in some of the songs we are learning this semester.

Sol-Fa-Mi-Re-Do: Dings in Firetruck, end of Row the Boat, end of Bunny’s Birdhouse

Mi-Re-Do: Solfeg Seafriends: end of octopus line, end of Farmer in the Dell, end of Sally Go Round

Sol-Sol-Do: Solfeg Seafriends: end of whale line

Sol-La-Ti-Do: Say, Say Oh Playmate: ending

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