It's YOUR Lucky Day!
Welcome Families! Thank you for attending our celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. I know your child had fabulous fun with the balls, keyboard, and parachute. While we were having so much fun our main goal was to experience high and low sounds. It’s actually a very difficult concept. I’ve been teaching it for over 25 years and more often than not, a child will hear a high sound and say that it’s low, and vice versa. It’s only after training, that a child or an adult for that matter can identify the sounds properly. Understanding high and low in music is crucial to understanding upward and downward and making the connection to the keyboard. So, have fantastic fun learning it! It will make learning an instrument easier in the future. You can practice high and low at home, too! Here are a few ways! Enjoy!
Enjoy Irish Music From Class
It's Your Lucky Day
Practice High and Low at Home
Here are some ways to practice high and low for your child’s age at home:
Baby: When your baby is ready to play, listen to “Irish Jig” above and move him or her high for high sounds and low for low sounds. The movement in the correct direction will make the connection in your child’s brain. When your arms are tired, put baby on the floor and move a toy upward and downward so your child can see it. You can also use a scarf or handy burp cloth.
Toddler: Play the sounds for seals, below. Tell your child a daddy seal makes a lower sound and a baby seal makes a higher sound. Imitate the seal sounds in your vocal range. Pretend to be a seal swimming in the sea and make low seal sounds. Pretend to be a baby seal playing with a ball and make high seal sounds. Listen to Rattlin Bog in the play list and roll a ball together in a variety of ways.
Preschooler: Your child may be interested in instruments. Play the violin sound from the list below. Ask: “Does the violin, play a high sound or a low sound (generally)?” Answer: high sound. Listen to the double bass from the list below and move down low to it’s low sound. While your preschooler is not looking, play the violin sound and the double bass sound and see if he or she can move his or her body high for the violin, and low for the double bass. Listen to any piece from class and move high and low as you hear the sounds.
Big kid: Your kindergartener or first grader really needs to practice high and low for upcoming music lessons. Thus, if you have a piano or glockenspiel at home, find the highest key or bar, and the lowest key or bar. Practice going upward and downward on the keys or bars. Listen to the glissando video below and imitate it on the piano or the glockenspiel or xylophone.
