Eurhythmics to help you internalize musical notes. Let’s play with chestnuts and fallen leaves!
"I want to play that favorite song on the piano!"violinI want to try playing a big, cool song!
Thinking that, when you actually look at the sheet music… have you ever found yourself at a loss in front of it, realizing you have no idea about note lengths or rhythms?
Can understand musical notes through eurhythmics.
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The wall that everyone hits at least once when trying to read sheet music is understanding the notes.
If you don’t understand this, you won’t be able to read sheet music well, and you’ll never get to the point where you can play the pieces you want to play.
Therefore, everyone who sets out to make music puts effort into reading sheet music and into knowing and understanding musical notes.
Therefore,EurhythmicsNow, let’s turn various musical notes into fun games so that you can learn to recognize them while playing.
When children play and have fun, they naturally learn lots of musical notes, so when it’s time to start music in earnest, they’ll be able to read sheet music smoothly!
The earlier you listen to and become familiar with a variety of musical notes, the faster you will pick them up.
Please be sure to use the rhythmic activity video we're introducing today and have fun playing with it at home!
You'll naturally be able to distinguish the three notes!
Let's try playing with chestnuts and fallen leaves!
In my classroom, we prepare artificial chestnuts and fallen leaves,
If you figure out which sound it is, go pick it up!
and place it on the floor↓
This is something we prepare to liven up the atmosphere of the lesson and improve the children's concentration, so it's okay if you don't have it.
Or, to make it even simpler, I think children would have plenty of fun just by preparing a sheet of paper with illustrations of chestnuts and fallen leaves!
Here is this time’s at-home Eurhythmics video. Enjoy:
Now, in the at-home Eurhythmics video, we’ve added animations of chestnuts and fallen leaves, and to explain it clearly:
The chestnut melody is played in eighth notes.
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And the melody of the fallen leaves is in triplets.
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Like the animation that is inserted into the video
- Melody of chestnuts → bending and stretching up and down
- Melody of fallen leaves → swaying side to side
Then,You can physically feel the difference in the qualities of eighth notes and triplets.
By the way, while moving my body
- If it’s chestnuts: “ku-ri♪ ku-ri♪”
- If it's fallen leaves, then 'o-chi-ba♪ o-chi-ba♪'
And if you chant along with the piano sounds, it makes it easier to understand the differences between the notes—nice!
Let's have fun playing with chestnuts, fallen leaves, and acorns!
Next, let's try adding one more note.
It's a sixteenth note made of acorns.
In our classroom lessons, we’re making acorns out of origami.
By the way, I used this as a reference for how to make it ↓
Reference:How to fold an acorn with origami! It’s easy and even preschoolers can enjoy it♪
I’m fitting it to the notes like this↓
The sound is intricate and gives a very busy feeling.
When the music turns into the acorn melody, start trotting lightly or make quick small steps to feel the tempo of the notes.
And of course, chanting “do-n-gu-ri♪ do-n-gu-ri♪” at the time.
At first, have the adults do it together with them!
Distinguishing between the three notes inspired by chestnuts, fallen leaves, and acorns becomes very easy once you get used to it, and even small children enjoy doing it!
But since they can’t just jump in and do it right away by saying “Let’s give it a try!”, it’s important for an adult to do it together with them at first.
In my classroom, the students, their parents, and I stand in a circle holding hands,
- If it's chestnuts, chant “ku-ri♪” while doing squats
- Even the fallen leaves sway side to side while chanting, “o-chi-ba♪.”
- The acorns also chant ‘do-n-gu-ri♪’ while doing tiny steps in place.
After everyone experienced it together, we added the piano sound.
By doing so, even very young children and those new to Eurhythmics can enjoy playing with musical notes.
Please be sure to try it at home!