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Careful asking a human to "sit up strait." We don't have flag poles in our bodies, we have spines, and the spine does have a natural curve to it. I simply ask them to "Listen to your body" so they can make the micro adjustments. Their body will tell them what it needs if they practice listening to it. This mindfulness practice is great after stretching.
If you are giving your students a rhythmic vocabulary and tonal vocabulary, how do you talk to them about melody?
When I read melodies with my students we break them apart. "Look at the lines" and chant the rhythm! Or "Look at the dots and tell us what is our starting pitch?"
This is a fun challenge for students that help them practice their micro beats in duple and triple meter. I put this on the outside of my music room door and students who choose to take the challenge and show me get a "polyrhythm five"
Graphic Organizer:
Removing rhythm and just focusing on the "Tonal" side of music allows students to focus one smaller and more mentally digestible aspects of music literacy. Just look at the dots! ...What tonal solfège is that dot?
Students can share their music playlist and catagorize it into different meters...
Duple, Triple, Mixed
Graphic Organizer:
Whole pizza = Whole note
Half pizza... (?)
Quarter Pizza... (?)
Eighth pizza... (?)
Teaching by rote starts with the ears. It also is important to offer space for musicians to hear it in their hear (audiate) so that when they sing they have more confidence in what is coming out of their mouth.