Music Teaching Ideas

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Four of the most common drum kit patterns in modern pop music. Use the blank ones to make your own custom beat. Put them on stands for your learners to learn new patterns or have them design their own. A terrific stepping stone to staff notation on the drum set through iconic notation. Useful for rock band stations or modern band groups. Includes the Basic Rock Beat, Basic Disco Beat, Basic Blues, and Shuffle patterns. Try them out today!
Music Symbol Bingo is a FUN and competitive way to drill and learn the most common music symbols that your students will see in their music. Game includes 10 varieties of the Bingo Cards for you to use, so up to 10 students can play at a time. The “Theme” of this game is Orchestra Instruments, so each student can choose their favorite instruments (or color!) #musicbingofreetemplate #musicbingotemplateinstagram #musicbingotemplate #musicbingoinstagram #musicbingoforkids

Instruments

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These FREE Orff instrument posters are great for showing students the home tone or do for F, G, & C pentatonic. Use these barred instrument posters in your elementary music classroom to aid students in understanding where to place their mallets for drones or bourdons. Become an Anacrusic Insider to get instant access to the FREE resource library for this and other elementary general music classroom resources.
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Short drumming video with tubs and containers as drums - 3rd Graders Bucket Drumming

Orff

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FREEBIE! This is the free version of my Recorder Karate / Recorder Dojo Certificates. That product includes an editable PPT so you can type in names and the date. It also includes a certificate for when a student passes each belt. INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT: *Certificate for end of recorder karate unit *Two styles *PDF file for easy printing--just print, write name of your student, date, & your name
Recorder Resources via www.learnmemusic.com
FREE recorder karate flags to display student growth! Great addition to any recorder karate classroom!

Recorder

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music centers. For the school year or maybe adapt for open house and parent teacher conferences.
**FREE** Enjoy using this Easy Bells & Chimes arrangement of O CHRISTMAS TREE! This product includes the following materials: • Lesson Plan, Objectives, Procedures • Musical arrangement used for this piece • Sheet with lyrics and rhythms • Individual printable sheets for each assigned chime or bell (G4-E6) This product uses a “non-music reading” approach.
pvc piping instrument...

Bells and Boomwhackers

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Instilling strong accenting skills helps greatly as they learn to cope with different time signatures. Try this with your students in the choral classroom!
When I teach this concept, I compare it to how an orchestra warms up before a concert. Try it with your students!
After years of teaching without these principles, I figured out my 4 part philosophy. These are essential in any choral classroom. Get the details in my blog post!

Singing and Solfa

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This is an among us themed classroom music bulletin bord! I came up with this idea because my students are currently obsessed with this game.
Music Rules for the music classroom. #musicclass #musicroom #iteachmusic

Music Class Decor

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These books have a common theme, they promote Informal learning, Non-formal teaching, popular music education, or creativity, and sometimes all four! Rock Coach, Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians, How to Rap, Hip Hop. (contains affiliate links)
Music Room with a Mountain View: Lit Lesson: Wide Mouthed Frog
Books for the music teacher classroom: tubby the tuba is a fantastic, funny story that students absolutely adore. The book comes with a cd.

Music Books

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Head over to my @tptpins account to find access to music games, activities, movement songs, circle time ideas, lesson plans, and more! #preschoolmusic #teachpreschoolmusic #preschoolmusiclessonplans #teachingresources #musicclassroom #preschoolmusic #preschoolsongs #musiclessonplans #musiclessons #musicteacher

Listening Activities

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Music: 'Peter and the Wolf' Worksheets
Peter and the Wolf Resources, including clips of each character's theme
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Peter and the Wolf

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Body Percussion - Free African Body Percussion Lesson by Tribal Groove
This is a fun way to establish rhythms with students from 3rd through 7th grade, giving kids a way to not only learn aurally but visually and kinetically all at once!
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Drumming and Percussion

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November Music Class Stations - Sing Play Create
Halloween Music Manipulatives - These manipulatives are perfect for elementary music class around Halloween! Practice steady beat, rhythm, and solfege reading and writing. - Kodaly Inspired Classroom

Autumn Theme Music Ideas

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"Carol of the Bells" for Orff Ensemble: Downloadable file for glockenspiel, soprano xylo, alto xylo, and bass xylo!
Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story by David A. Johnson
Put some "HO-HO-HO" into your Music lessons with these fun class ideas and a couple of freebies.

Winter and Christmas Music Ideas

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Chord Inversions can be a complicated concept for music theory students to understand. It is my goal through this game to help our kids gain an understanding how chord inversions work, easily recognize inversions, and most importantly, be able to use this knowledge in the performance of their music. Stand on My Shoulders! A Lesson in Inversions is THREE (3) Games in One. Choose the game that will benefit YOUR students in your classroom the most. #musictheorygames #musictheory #musiclesson
Time for a Music Picnic! Spread out your checkered tablecloth and enjoy some music learning with your students! Game includes 88 Flashcards with the complete Treble & Bass Clef (with some ledger lines!) and Piano Keyboard Cards. 12 FUN Watermelon Trivia Cards are also here for your use. EXTRA Fun! Turn on the Youtube link for the “Fun Salad Dance Party” video while you play the game! #musicgames #musicgamesfortheclassroom #musicgamesforadults #musicgamesforkids #musicgamesforpreschoolers
Time for a Music Picnic! Spread out your checkered tablecloth and enjoy some music learning with your students! Game includes 88 Flashcards with the complete Treble & Bass Clef (with some ledger lines!) and Piano Keyboard Cards. 12 FUN Watermelon Trivia Cards are also here for your use. EXTRA Fun! Turn on the Youtube link for the “Fun Salad Dance Party” video while you play the game! #musicgames #musicgamesfortheclassroom #musicgamesforadults #musicgamesforkids #musicgamesforpreschoolers

Music Theory

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Birthday Piano Lesson Game is a multi-level game that you can play with all ages and levels of students. The BEST part of the game is the special card that the Birthday person receives at the beginning of the game to “tuck away” if needed that will guarantee a WIN! Treble and Bass Clef Notes and Piano Keyboard identification and Finger Numbers are all included in this game. Birthday trivia cards add to the fun. #pianogames #musicgames #musicactivities #musiclessons #pianoteacher #piano
Help your teens to connect with their Baroque Repertoire with this unique approach #YesWeSaidColdplay #NoMoreBrokenBaroque #TeenPianoHacks
The Day That Middle C Quit� Amazing activity to begin integrating composing and personal expression.

Piano

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These charts and diagrams can be laminated and customized to your learners' needs. 30+ pages of printable chord charts and helpful pages. Use these for songwriting, and learning a new song or chord. Almost 20 of the most common chords plus all the common chords in 5 of the most common guitar keys.
Looking for ways to simplify that rock tune while keeping the integrity of the tune intact? Here are 8 ways to do that with your young rockers. Teaching tips, music education, rock music teaching, music teaching ideas, music lesson plans, unit plans, easy rock songs, 3 chord songs.
Old strings, for a number of reasons can just break unexpectedly. Also, when young musicians are learning to tune their guitars on their own, strings are often wound too high and will pop. You will find that the silver-wound nylon strings will need to be replaced much more often than the three clear nylon strings. So what do you do when a string inevitably breaks or needs to be replaced? Guitar education, music ed lessons, instrument repair, Teaching guitar.

Guitar

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