Practice Your Melodies at Home!

Students in Grade Two and Three have expanded their collection melodic notation to include our newest pitch, called "do".  We represent melodic pitches in many ways, including singing with both melodic syllables and the lyrics of our songs, showing the relative pitch with Curwen hand signs, reading and writing notes on a five-line staff, and playing the melodies on the xylophone.

If you would like to practice at home, I've included a few melodies to sing below.  In each example, I sing the melody first, then leave some time for you to sing it again by yourself, and then I repeat the melody so that you and I can sing it together.  The most important thing is to check and make sure that your voice sounds the same as my voice.  You could even ask your family to double check!  If you sound different, just try again and make your voice higher or lower to match the sound of my voice.  

If you have a piano at home, you can write your own melodies on a five line staff and sing with your piano.  (We have been using the pitches D #F and A above middle C.)

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CLICK HERE to practice this melody.

CLICK HERE to practice this melody.

CLICK HERE to practice this melody.