On this page are posted video clips from my lessons,  to show how we "play" some of the activities presented in Music Moves for Piano. Students were a little "shy" with an unfamiliar camera man recording them, since it was an unplanned event.

The first video is the "Watch Please Game" in Triple meter. This is during an "overlap" time. Some students have finished lessons and others will have their lessons after the activity time. We reviewed the steps for moving to macrobeats and microbeats, chanted rhythm improvisations, then chanted six categories of triple meter rhythm patterns. 

When the "Watch Please Game" is used for rhythm pattern instruction, we stay with Gordon's curriculum of sequenced patterns. Students chant class patterns together, but instructional patterns are chanted individually --  first with me, then alone. This procedure gives each student ownership of the patterns and builds their personal music vocabulary.

The second video shows how I integrated one four-year old child with older students, who have lessons before and after this 30-minute time. During this lesson, students move while I sing songs without words in three different tonalities. To provide further contrast and awareness of same and different, I sing the melodic cadences of each of the tonalities and we sing the resting tone together. Students become familiar with the sound of different tonalities and learn the importance of the resting tone. Then there is song improvisation.

Triple meter patterns are echoed and chants are improvised in the second part. The four-year old enjoys learning with the older students, who are his "models." The older students gain experience in improvising songs and chants and continue to build their music vocabularies by listening  to music in different tonalities and meters. We do standing and active locomotor movement activities and keyboard activities also, but it is interesting to use seated activities as well.