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Are you ready to play? • Check your sitting and hand positions with the pictures:
Shoulders down Back straight Arms relaxed Forearms level with keys Stool positioned so that your knees are just under the keyboard Feet firmly on the floor
• Place your hands gently over your kneecaps:
• Keeping the same position, raise your hands to the piano:
Picture signs: • Here are some picture signs that you’ll see throughout the book: Listen up! games
Rhythm time activities
Find, say and play games
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Pulse • Most music has a steady heartbeat or pulse.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
The pulse (or beat) can go quickly (like footsteps when you run fast) ….
This is also known as the beat.
… or slowly (like a dripping tap)….
• Tap, click or walk to the pulse while your teacher plays Pizza song (page 15), Sunny days (page 18), then Popcorn popping (page 26).
Black keys
• Play some black keys to see what they sound like.
Black key bounce accompaniment • Use any of the black keys to make up your own tune to the Black key bounce accompaniment. Teacher part:
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• Try playing your tune at different speeds: slow, medium, fast. • Try playing loudly and quietly. • Don’t forget to keep to your teacher’s steady pulse.
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High and low • On your piano there are high and low notes. • Can you work out which are the high notes and which are the low notes? (Your teacher will help you if you are not sure.)
Musical pictures game • Make up tunes to go with the pictures. • Which part of the piano will you use?
A mouse in the house
Fireworks
Elephant
• Make up a tune and draw a picture for it here:
Find, say and play • The black keys come in 2s and 3s. • Play all the groups of two black keys.
• Play all the groups of three black keys.
Bounce your fingers like a ball, moving across from one side of the keyboard to the other.
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Finger taps
5
• Using the piano lid, can you tap your number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 fingers in turn?
4 3 2
2 1
1
3 4
5
• Say the number as you tap each finger.
White keys • The white keys are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G (the first seven letters of the alphabet). • Once you’ve got to G, start all over again at A. • Fill in the missing notes on the keyboard picture:
A B C D E F G
B
D E
A
Quiz ★ Fill in the answers to these questions, then play the word on the piano keys. 1. You sleep in this: __
E __
2. You can eat this fried, scrambled or sunny side up: 3. You put your books in this and carry it:
B __
E __
__
__
4. You get these for birthdays or when you’ve done well at Brownies or Cubs:
B __ D __
__
★ Can you write in the finger numbers?
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Rhythm • A rhythm is a pattern of notes and silences of different lengths. • We measure the length of notes in beats.
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This is a crotchet (or quarter note). It is worth 1 beat. This is a minim (or half note). It is worth 2 crotchet beats. This is a semibreve (or whole note). It is worth 4 crotchet beats.
Rhythm time • Say, then clap this rhythm:
• Put your right hand on a group of three black keys and your left hand on a group of two black keys. Using the Get set! rhythm, play all the notes together.
Quiz ★ How many beats are these notes worth?
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Time signatures • Beats are organised into bars using barlines. • The top number of the time signature shows us how many beats there are in each bar.
4 means 4 crotchet beats in a bar: 4
2 means 2 crotchet beats in a bar: 4
The grand stave • The five lines and four spaces that music is written on is called the stave. • Piano music is usually written on two staves: the treble stave and the bass stave. • When two staves are joined together it is called the grand stave. treble clef
time signature
bass clef
bar
double barline = end of the piece
barlines
Quiz ★ Can you draw some treble clefs and bass clefs on the grand stave below?
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