Mix and match activities to create a fun lesson on the basics of music notation. Integrate solfeg.io in teaching such concepts as the staff, clef, measures, notes and ledger lines.
🎲 What's included in these activities:
💻 Materials:
🕐 Time: 10 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎶 Recommended Songs:
🎲 Activity:
-Shortly talk about musical notation in general.
A way to write down music.
A set of symbols that represent sound.
For composers: to have their pieces performed by other musicians.
Before sound recording was possible, musical scores were the only way to distribute music. We wouldn't know much about music history if music was never notated!
To learn to play an instrument more efficiently.
🕐 Time: 10 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎶 Recommended Songs:
🎲 Activity:
How many lines are there in the staff? (A five-line staff has been the most widely used type since north French manuscripts of the early 13th century containing polyphony. - Grove Music Online)
The class does a vocal glissando together - each student slides from the lowest pitch they can sing to the highest!
Add the body movement: students start with the low notes squatting down and then, with the pitch going upwards, gradually stand up and lift their arms.
🕐 Time: 15 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎶 Recommended Songs:
🎲 Activity:
-Choose another one of the recommended songs from the list with your students and open it!
-Look at the staff - keeping in mind that notes can be written on, between, above and below the lines, ask students to count how many notes they can write on a staff! (11 - 6 between the staff lines and 5 on the staff lines)
-Demonstrate on an instrument you have available - there are much more than 11 notes!
-Listen to a part of the chosen song with notes on ledger lines, for example, Chorus 1 of “Save Your Tears” by The Weeknd.
-Listen to the same excerpt once again and invite students to do movements along the song:
They can remain squatting down only if there are two or more notes on a ledger line below the staff in a row.
Whenever there is a note on the five staff lines, they should stand up again!
🕐 Time: 5 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎶 Recommended Songs:
🎲 Activity:
There are several different clefs.
This particular one is called treble or G clef - see how it's curved around the 2nd line where the G note is located!
🕐 Time: 5 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎶 Recommended Songs:
🎲 Activity:
🕐 Time: 5 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎲 Activity:
Have a short discussion on these topics:
🕐 Time: 5 min
🎯 Objectives:
🎲 Activity:
In this lesson, students will take their first steps into the world of music notation. They will learn how the staff, clef, measures, notes and ledger lines look like and what their function is. They will do short and fun exercises involving body movements to better incorporate the new knowledge.
The timing and pacing of the exercises in this lesson plan example are approximate and will differ depending on your students' skill level. If the pace of this lesson plan is too fast for you, divide it into several lessons and add additional activities (see 'Activities' section). If the pace of this lesson plan is too slow for you, explore the 'Beyond the lesson' chapter at the end of this lesson plan for additional activities.
⏰ Time: 45 min
🎓 Grades: 5-7
🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will be able to...
💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:
💻 Materials:
🕐 5 min - Notation best
-Shortly talk about musical notation in general.
A way to write down music.
A set of symbols that represent sound.
For composers: to have their pieces performed by other musicians.
Before sound recording was possible, musical scores were the only way to distribute music. We wouldn't know much about music history, if music was never notated!
To learn to play an instrument more efficiently.
🕐 10 min - Let's slide through the notes and lines!
How many lines are there in the staff? (A five-line staff has been the most widely used type since north French manuscripts of the early 13th century containing polyphony. - Grove Music Online)
The class does a vocal glissando together - each student slides from the lowest pitch they can sing to the highest!
Add the body movement: students start with the low notes squatting down and then, with the pitch going upwards, gradually stand up and lift their arms.
🕐 15 min - Exercise 1 - Beyond the staff
-Keeping in mind that notes can be written on, between, above and below the lines, ask students to count how many notes they can write on a staff! (11 - 6 between the staff lines and 5 on the staff lines)
-Demonstrate on an instrument you have available - there are much more than 11 notes!
-Listen to Pre-Chorus 1 and Chorus 1 of 'Falling Slowly' by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova.
-Listen to the same excerpt once again and invite students to do movements along the song:
They can remain squatting down only if there are two or more notes on a ledger line below the staff in a row.
Whenever there is a note on the five staff lines, they should stand up again!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 2 - The very beginning
There are several different clefs.
This particular one is called treble or G clef - see how it's curved around the 2nd line where the G note is located!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 3 - Clap-line
🕐 5 min - Discussion
Challenge students to go beyond the lesson by...
In this lesson, students will take their first steps into the world of music notation. They will learn how the staff, clef, measures, notes and ledger lines look like and what their function is. They will do short and fun exercises involving body movements to better incorporate the new knowledge.
The timing and pacing of the exercises in this lesson plan example are approximate and will differ depending on your students' skill level. If the pace of this lesson plan is too fast for you, divide it into several lessons and add additional activities (see 'Activities' section). If the pace of this lesson plan is too slow for you, explore the 'Beyond the lesson' chapter at the end of this lesson plan for additional activities.
⏰ Time: 45 min
🎓 Grades: 5-7
🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will be able to...
💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:
💻 Materials:
🕐 5 min - Notation best
-Shortly talk about musical notation in general.
A way to write down music.
A set of symbols that represent sound.
For composers: to have their pieces performed by other musicians.
Before sound recording was possible, musical scores were the only way to distribute music. We wouldn't know much about music history, if music was never notated!
To learn to play an instrument more efficiently.
🕐 10 min - Let's slide through the notes and lines!
How many lines are there in the staff? (A five-line staff has been the most widely used type since north French manuscripts of the early 13th century containing polyphony. - Grove Music Online)
The class does a vocal glissando together - each student slides from the lowest pitch they can sing to the highest!
Add the body movement: students start with the low notes squatting down and then, with the pitch going upwards, gradually stand up and lift their arms.
🕐 15 min - Exercise 1 - Beyond the staff
-Keeping in mind that notes can be written on, between, above and below the lines, ask students to count how many notes they can write on a staff! (11 - 6 between the staff lines and 5 on the staff lines)
-Demonstrate on an instrument you have available - there are much more than 11 notes!
-Listen to Pre-Chorus 1 and Chorus 1 of 'Falling Slowly' by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova.
-Listen to the same excerpt once again and invite students to do movements along the song:
They can remain squatting down only if there are two or more notes on a ledger line below the staff in a row.
Whenever there is a note on the five staff lines, they should stand up again!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 2 - The very beginning
There are several different clefs.
This particular one is called treble or G clef - see how it's curved around the 2nd line where the G note is located!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 3 - Clap-line
🕐 5 min - Discussion
Challenge students to go beyond the lesson by...
In this lesson, students will take their first steps into the world of music notation. They will learn how the staff, clef, measures, notes and ledger lines look like and what their function is. They will do short and fun exercises involving body movements to better incorporate the new knowledge.
The timing and pacing of the exercises in this lesson plan example are approximate and will differ depending on your students' skill level. If the pace of this lesson plan is too fast for you, divide it into several lessons and add additional activities (see 'Activities' section). If the pace of this lesson plan is too slow for you, explore the 'Beyond the lesson' chapter at the end of this lesson plan for additional activities.
⏰ Time: 45 min
🎓 Grades: 5-7
🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will be able to...
💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:
💻 Materials:
🕐 5 min - Notation best
-Shortly talk about musical notation in general.
A way to write down music.
A set of symbols that represent sound.
For composers: to have their pieces performed by other musicians.
Before sound recording was possible, musical scores were the only way to distribute music. We wouldn't know much about music history, if music was never notated!
To learn to play an instrument more efficiently.
🕐 10 min - Let's slide through the notes and lines!
How many lines are there in the staff? (A five-line staff has been the most widely used type since north French manuscripts of the early 13th century containing polyphony. - Grove Music Online)
The class does a vocal glissando together - each student slides from the lowest pitch they can sing to the highest!
Add the body movement: students start with the low notes squatting down and then, with the pitch going upwards, gradually stand up and lift their arms.
🕐 15 min - Exercise 1 - Beyond the staff
-Keeping in mind that notes can be written on, between, above and below the lines, ask students to count how many notes they can write on a staff! (11 - 6 between the staff lines and 5 on the staff lines)
-Demonstrate on an instrument you have available - there are much more than 11 notes!
-Listen to Pre-Chorus 1 and Chorus 1 of 'Falling Slowly' by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova.
-Listen to the same excerpt once again and invite students to do movements along the song:
They can remain squatting down only if there are two or more notes on a ledger line below the staff in a row.
Whenever there is a note on the five staff lines, they should stand up again!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 2 - The very beginning
There are several different clefs.
This particular one is called treble or G clef - see how it's curved around the 2nd line where the G note is located!
🕐 5 min - Exercise 3 - Clap-line
🕐 5 min - Discussion
Challenge students to go beyond the lesson by...
