One of my students’ most favourite games and mine too….part 2.
A superb game to confirm and develop aural skills using solfege hand-signs. Ensure you watch Ep 41 first to get the basics.
Directions are given in our Music Writing Teacher Books 4 & 5, but here is a quick tutorial on how to play the extended or second level game.
Hi colleagues, thanks for joining me. The sol-fa Knockout Part two.
When the students are standing in the circle and you’ve had a go at them doing one by one hand signs following your pitch as per the previous video.
You can then say, “Okay, we’re going to do version two.” and they just follow along and it gives them a little bit of scope to get errors as you’re moving, but then they come back to the note that you finish on.
Hopefully that’s correct.
Okay, so if we say this is here we go. Follow my voice with your hand signs.
Hopefully everyone’s on me me and you confirm it with the students. They should by this stage be able to sit down if they’re incorrect. But you might say, “We’ll have a couple of goes first as a warm up and then you can go out.
Me.
So, it’s lots of fun. I hope that is enjoyable for you and your students.
Put a comment in below um as to how successful it is for you.
And if you’ve got any questions or sharing some successes, the directions are in our take notebook four and five teacher books.
Happy teaching.
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