Grades K-2 have been diligently learning to move to the beat and recognizing changes in musical form in order to execute certain choreography.
Students first sing, dance, then move their song onto the xylophones, where everyone learns an accompaniment that requires growing in dexterity, perseverance, and paying close attention while the teacher teaches the notes.
Kindergartens have worked on playing glissandos and trills, and they are enjoying improvising on a pentatonic scale to a particular beat.
Grade 1-2 have advanced from a straight bordun to a levelled bordun to a cross-over bordun. Now we are working on building speed playing up and down a penta-scale.
We also are continuing to work on recognizing instruments (or instrument families) that we hear in a song.
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