Orange Roots Lesson #7

Teacher Tidbits

No class next week. Happy Spring Break! Next class is Showtime for Cockles and Mussels. 

• Need extra support with mix paint, or red chord inversions? Watch this video.
• Once they've mastered red chord, go on to blue on p. 8. Here's a quick demo video to help visualize.

This week in class we learned:

• The real names of R, B, Y being I, IV, and V-- we are transitioning from naming our chords by color and naming them by number which is the method used by the REST of the musical world and discovering why they have these particular number names
• Melodic dictation in G
• F chord inversions- We started playing the blue chord in its inversions today. We used 3 alphabet pieces on the keyboards - putting them on middle C, F and A, (which is actually 2nd inversion) and then jumped the first blue counter up to the next octave C - for the root position version of this triad. Remember, the letter names stay the same, the order is just mixed up! 
• How draw a sharp
• How draw an eighth note
• How to find and audiate G from C

Purpose in the Play

DO is Home
While finding a pitch (out of thin air) through audiation isn't a new thing for our Let's Play Music student, we are now switching it up. We started to find 'fa' and make F home instead of C and now we will make G home, instead of C and F. We are always doing this relative to Middle C to continually reinforce the sound of Middle C and to teach relative pitch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pitch

Scale Degrees
Actually numbering the steps of the scale as 'scale degrees' is the first step in transitioning out of calling our primary chords by colors. The Red, Blue, and Yellow chords are respectively the I, IV and V chord (we call em 1, 4, and 5) and they get their chord names because their root is that numbered scale degree within the scale.

Making Musicians
Did you know that your little musician has super powers? They really do!!!
https://makingmusicianslpm.blogspot.com/2014/09/ready-to-learn-perfect-pitch.html