LVMS
General Music
FJH Unit 2
Review of Concepts Songs:
- 4 Beat Alphabet Pg. 24
- 3 Beat Alphabet Pg. 25
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat Pg. 27
Required Pass Off Songs for this Unit:
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- Yankee Doodle Pg. 26
- Clock Tower Bells Pg. 27
- Catch a Falling Star Pg. 29
- Russian Folk Song Pgs. 30-31
- Midnight Ride Pgs. 32-33
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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:​
- Reinforce proper hand position, posture, and finger number assignments. Students will continue to develop the skill of finding a hand position from a fingering chart.
- Continue to reinforce 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 on the music staff.
- Introduce Time Signatures. Students will begin to learn the difference between 4/4 Time (4 beats per measure) and 3/4 Time (3 beats per measure).
- Introduce reading the Musical Alphabet on the Music Staff. Students will begin to be able to identify to find and match notes on the staff to piano keys. Students will be able to play, read, and compose with Middle C Position Notes (G, A, B, C, D, E, and F) by the end of the unit.
- Reinforce 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.