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Your First Lesson With Solfeg.Io
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Classroom Lesson Plan
Classroom Lesson Plan

⏰ Time: 40 min

🎓 Grades: any

🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will know and/or be able to...

  • Understand the importance of music in their everyday life
  • Perform their first song together as a class

💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:

  • Basic note names and symbols

💻 Materials:

  • Solfeg.io app best used with Chrome browser
  • Projector or computer and access to WIFI

 

Song suggestions:

 

Inspiration

🕐 5 min

  • Play the chosen song to your students. Ask them the following questions:
    • How did you like this song?
    • Who is singing this song?
    • Would you like to make a career on-stage in the future?
  • Use our provided facts from the song description, if necessary.

 

Warm-Up

🕐 5 min

  • Divide the class into several parts to learn their parts of the song. Fit the groups according to their skillset.
  • Here are a few possible designs for dividing your class:
    • Playing the 3rd rhythm line + singing (for less experienced students)
    • Playing the 2nd and 3rd rhythm line + singing (for less experienced students)
    • Playing all the rhythm lines + singing (for more experienced students)
    • Playing all the rhythm lines + playing chords on an instrument + singing (for more experienced students)
  • Give all the necessary instruments to your students (for the rhythm lines, just clapping is fine!) and sing some preparatory exercises for voice-warmup if needed.

 

Practice

🕐 10 min - Exercise 1:

  • Identify the main motifs for the 3rd rhythm line and help your students learn the rhythm ostinato;
  • Repeat the same process with the group doing the 2nd or 1st rhythm line if necessary. Mute the other instruments in the song if it helps your students to learn faster.
  • Help your students to combine their rhythm lines together, creating a whole united power of clapping!

🕐 15 min - Exercise 2:

  • Practice “verse” or “chorus” parts with the singers and instrument players depending on the skill level of your students. It’s completely okay to just focus on one part of the song as a polished verse will sound so much better than a whole chaotic song!
  • Identify the similar singing motifs or chord patterns - help your students to see the connection.
  • Try to combine the vocal/chord parts together with the students who learned their rhythmic parts. Remind your students that they should not only do the technical exercises, but not forget to enjoy the feeling of playing in a band!

🕐 5 min - Exercise 3:

  • Perform the song (or parts of the song) together as a class! You can either “fill in” the parts that nobody is playing through muting/enabling tracks through Solfeg.io controls or join the performance yourself!

 

Reflection

🕐 5 min - Q & A

  • Select students to answer the following questions:
    • What did you learn today?
    • Would you like to try playing in a band after today?
    • What songs would you like to learn in the next lesson?

 

Beyond the lesson

  • Explore our guitar, ukulele or piano classes to learn more chords and be able to play more songs!

 

⏰ Time: 40 min

🎓 Grades: any

🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will know and/or be able to...

  • Sign into their Solfeg.io account;
  • Navigate the song player
  • Navigate the song library

💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:

  • None

💻 Materials:

  • Solfeg.io app best used with Chrome browser
  • Projector or computer and access to WIFI

🤳 Video conference call provider:

  • Google Hangouts is recommended, as students only need a Google account and don’t need to install the program in advance. You can share a link however best works for you. Read how to set it up here.

 

Signing up

🕐 10 min -

  • To start the lesson, introduce your students to Solfeg.io by sending a sign-up link to them. The joint link ensures that students will appear under your direct supervision in the statistics page.
  • You can share your screen with students and use this presentation to show them step-by-step visual instructions.

 

Navigating the Song Library

🕐 10 min -

  • Once the students have signed up, they should be able to see the Song Library. Keep sharing your screen and show them how to filter or find specific genres and songs by using the presentation.
  • You can check if your students understood how to use the Song Library by:
    • Asking your students to find a specific song in the Song Library;
    • Asking your students to find their favourite song in the Song Library.

 

Navigating the Song Player

🕐 10 min -

  • When your students have chosen a specific song, instruct them on the song features of Solfeg.io by using our presentation.
  • To check if your students understood how to use the Song Player:
    • Ask your students to mute specific instrument tracks (for example, if you are teaching your students basic piano chords, check if they can find either how to mute the piano track in song or how to mute all the instrumental tracks except the piano track in a song);
    • Ask your students to loop a specific part of the song;
    • Ask your students to slow down a specific part of the song.

 

Beyond the lesson:

  • If you are planning to assign homework through our chatbot classes, show your students where to find those as well.
  • Further instructions are available in the presentation:

 

⏰ Time: 40 min

🎓 Grades: any

🎯 Objective(s): As a result of this lesson students will know and/or be able to...

  • Understand the importance of music in their everyday life
  • Perform their first song together as a class

💡 Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:

  • Basic note names and symbols

💻 Materials:

  • Solfeg.io app best used with Chrome browser
  • Projector or computer and access to WIFI

 

Song suggestions:

 

Inspiration

🕐 5 min

  • Play the chosen song to your students. Ask them the following questions:
    • How did you like this song?
    • Who is singing this song?
    • Would you like to make a career on-stage in the future?
  • Use our provided facts from the song description, if necessary.

 

Warm-Up

🕐 5 min

  • Divide the class into several parts to learn their parts of the song. Fit the groups according to their skillset.
  • Here are a few possible designs for dividing your class:
    • Playing the 3rd rhythm line + singing (for less experienced students)
    • Playing the 2nd and 3rd rhythm line + singing (for less experienced students)
    • Playing all the rhythm lines + singing (for more experienced students)
    • Playing all the rhythm lines + playing chords on an instrument + singing (for more experienced students)
  • Give all the necessary instruments to your students (for the rhythm lines, just clapping is fine!) and sing some preparatory exercises for voice-warmup if needed.

 

Practice

🕐 10 min - Exercise 1:

  • Identify the main motifs for the 3rd rhythm line and help your students learn the rhythm ostinato;
  • Repeat the same process with the group doing the 2nd or 1st rhythm line if necessary. Mute the other instruments in the song if it helps your students to learn faster.
  • Help your students to combine their rhythm lines together, creating a whole united power of clapping!

🕐 15 min - Exercise 2:

  • Practice “verse” or “chorus” parts with the singers and instrument players depending on the skill level of your students. It’s completely okay to just focus on one part of the song as a polished verse will sound so much better than a whole chaotic song!
  • Identify the similar singing motifs or chord patterns - help your students to see the connection.
  • Try to combine the vocal/chord parts together with the students who learned their rhythmic parts. Remind your students that they should not only do the technical exercises, but not forget to enjoy the feeling of playing in a band!

🕐 5 min - Exercise 3:

  • Perform the song (or parts of the song) together as a class! You can either “fill in” the parts that nobody is playing through muting/enabling tracks through Solfeg.io controls or join the performance yourself!

 

Reflection

🕐 5 min - Q & A

  • Select students to answer the following questions:
    • What did you learn today?
    • Would you like to try playing in a band after today?
    • What songs would you like to learn in the next lesson?

 

Beyond the lesson

  • Explore our guitar, ukulele or piano classes to learn more chords and be able to play more songs!

 

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