Teaching Rhythm

Professional Piano Teaching offers a practical guide to the art of piano teaching. Volume 1, now available as an updated second edition, is an excellent introduction to the profession of teaching piano. This revised second edition has been expanded to include chapters on teaching adult students and teaching popular, sacred, and other familiar music. Designed to serve as a basic text for a first-semester or lower-division piano pedagogy course, it provides an overview of learning principles and a thorough approach to essential aspects of teaching elementary-level students. Special features include discussions on how to teach, not just what to teach- numerous musical examples- chapter summaries- and suggested projects for new and experienced teachers. / Piano

This second volume of Professional Piano Teaching is designed to serve as a basic text for a second-semester or upper-division piano pedagogy course. It provides an overview of learning principles and a thorough approach to essential aspects of teaching intermediate to advanced students. Special features include discussions on how to teach, not just what to teach- numerous musical examples- chapter summaries- and suggested projects for new and experienced teachers. Topics: teaching students beyond the elementary levels * an overview of learning processes and learning theories * teaching transfer students * preparing students for college piano major auditions * teaching rhythm, reading, technique, and musicality * researching, evaluating, selecting, and presenting intermediate and advanced repertoire * developing stylistic interpretation of repertoire from each musical period * developing expressive and artistic interpretation and performance * motivating students and providing instruction in effective practice * teaching memorization and performance skills. 452 pages. Index. / Piano

8 Rhythm-Teaching Chorals Using Vocal Speech-Now reproducible this repackaged collection I Can Feel the Rhythm is a must for your teaching library of chorals! This collection contains eight chorals that are fun to learn interesting to teach and entertaining for performers and listeners. Perfect for the singer who does not play an instrument I Can Feel the Rhythm takes out the notes and teaches rhythm through speech. With selections for holidays and patriotic celebrations as well as a piece that teach dynamics and rests your singers will learn how rhythms look sound and feel. Reproducible chorals drum parts accompaniment tracks and performance tracks are included on the Enhanced StudioTrax CD. A lot of educationalbang for your buck! Grades 4-12.

Get rhythmically fit with this fabulous physical rhythm book for instrumentalists singers and dancers! This is a detailed and comprehensive guide to training your brain and body to find and feel the tempo beat and pulse of music. Richard Filz??? method is suitable for individual or group tuition as well as for teaching yourself. Training plans are provided for group activity.There are rhythm workouts for each exercise included on the CD to help bolster the exercises and techniques expressed in the book. The exercises include:Call and response exercises Rhythmic play-along and sing-along exercisesBody and vocal percussion exercisesFilz is an experienced teacher and author so the pace is steady and thorough making it perfectly weighted towards those who have had no previous training or experience. By using very simple movements like stamping and clapping to help feel the beat this book shows you how anyone can feel the pulse and rhythm of music!

Beginning Notation and Sight-Reading for All Instruments-Rhythms are certainly the largest challenge in reading and writing music. This book makes learning to read and write rhythms easy teaching you in a step-by-step method starting from the very basics.Supported by recordings of the exercises and worksheets that help you practice the material you will have all you need to learn quarter note eighth note and triplet eighth rhythms including syncopations. Whether you are an experienced musician who has never learned notation a total beginner a vocalist or student of any instrument or interested in playing or composing any style of music with The Rhythm Book you can build a solid foundationin reading and writing rhythms.

and Teaching Activities. Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Ensembles and Teaching Activities Book is designed for teachers of Music for Little Mozarts. It includes eight rhythm ensembles featuring pieces accompanied by one or two rhythm instruments. By studying these ensembles, students learn to identify rhythm patterns. Teaching activities focus on three areas---rhythm, reading, and intervals. The teaching activities use a 'listen and copy' technique during which the teacher sings, chants, or claps, and the student responds by echoing the teacher. Includes reproducible student pages. / Niveau : 1-4 / Etudes et exercices / Etude / Piano

Ultimate Contemporary Rhythm Keyboard Grooves by Andrew D. Gordon will give you an insight into how keyboardists play rhythm Keyboard grooves in many different styles of contemporary music such as: Pop Rock Blues Jazz Funk R&B Latin Gospel New Age Reggae Calypso. Each of the 21 grooves is broken down into patterns ranging from 3 up to 16 with over 150 patterns in total. Each groove uses a chord progression that is commonly used for that style of music and generally starts off with a simplified pattern and as you progress through the groove the patterns become more complex both rhythmically and harmonically.The CD that accompaniesthis book contains all the patterns that are notated in the book. Each pattern is recorded twice 1st. with the Keyboard rhythm part playing along with a rhythm section of Organ Guitar Bass and Drums and in certain grooves percussion 2nd. the rhythm section without the piano rhythm part so you can practice along. Also there are extended 2-3 minute play-a-long mp3 files of all 21 grooves contained on the CD that can be accessed from a computer enabling you to practice each groove and pattern for an extended period of time. The play-a-long mp3 files gives you the ability to either practice the rhythm patterns notated in the book in whatever order you prefer as well as the possibility of creating your own rhythm patterns. MIDI files are also included on the CD.This book is being used by Andrew to teach Keyboard students in his 'Keyboard Groove Lab' at Cornel School of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles.