LVMS
General Music
FJH Unit 1
Review of Concepts Songs:
- C Pentascale Pg. 16
- Warm-up with 3rds Pg. 17
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Required Pass Off Songs for this Unit:
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- Amazing Grace Pg. 9
- Camptown Races Pg. 11
- Merrily We Roll Along Ver. 1 Pg. 13
- Merrily We Roll Along Ver. 2
Pg. 15
- Ode to Joy Pgs. 18-19
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See personalized Google Tracking Sheet with due dates either on the class calendar or in your Google Drive "Shared With Me" Folder. Look for the file with your name for song feedback information and to see where you should be!
Goals for this Unit:​
- Introduce proper hand position, posture, and finger number assignments. Students will begin to develop the skill of finding a hand position from a fingering chart.
- Introduce the concept of High and Low on the piano.
- Introduce quarter, half, dotted half, and whole note rhythms. Students will be able to read, count, play, and compose with these rhythms by the end of the unit.
- Introduce the Musical Alphabet. Students will be able to identify what the 7 Musical Alphabet Letters are, and find them on the matching piano keys. Students will be able to play and compose with these notes by the end of the unit.
- Introduce Steps (2nds) and Skips (3rds) and how to play them. Students will be able to identify piano keys that are either stepwise or skip a key and begin to play them in song patterns.