Music Together

Play with musical phrasing this week at home with your kids!  

In class we sang Celebration Song and moved (bounced, jumped, twirled) with both the beat and the larger phrases in the song.  Learning music by ear the way children do when they are very young is a fantastic way to learn.  The Suzuki approach teaches specific instruments by ear and is a great way to learn!  Learning this way encourages children to feel the music and develops memorization skills.

"When a student learns first how to read music, often the child gets very focused on reading and how play what is on the page at the expense of not listening to what he or she is playing. In short, it's not a musical way to learn, but it is efficient. When a child learns to play by ear they establish the excellent musical habit of imagining the music in their mind and trying to find those sounds at the piano. That's how professional musicians think, and beginners can think that way too. If they establish that habit at first, then when they learn to read music they will still focus on what it sounds like rather than mostly on what it looks like." 

Singing, play instruments, and move to as much music as possible with your children from a very early age and you will give them a fantastic musical foundation to build on!

Scroll down to older posts to enjoy our dance and play along music from this week.

Waltz from Coppelia and Lukey's Boat!