How to Use this Book and CD |
Rhythm and Pitch Concepts |
Teaching Sequences |
Checklist for Success |
Options for Enrichment and Motivation |
The Beat: Quarter Note and Quarter Rest |
Barline and Measure / Repeat Sign |
Half Note and Half Rest |
Time Signature: 4/4 Meter |
The Staff / Treble Clef and Bass Clef / The Grand Staff |
Introducing and Practicing with Do Re Mi |
Ritard |
Song: Daydream |
Eighth Notes |
Introducing and Practicing with Fa and Sol |
Beginning on Pitches other than Do |
Sight-Singing in Parts |
Song: Come on Everybody |
Introducing and Practicing with La Ti and high Do |
Dotted Half Note |
Time Signature: 3/4 Meter |
Down the Scale from Do - Lower Neighbors |
Sight-singing in Two Parts |
The F Major Tonic Chord / Sight-singing skips with the F Major Tonic Chord |
The Scale / The Key / Key Signature |
Mixing it Up - Sight-singing Skips and Steps in F Major |
Song: In the Distance |
Intervals: Whole and Half Step / Major and Minor Scale Patterns |
Sight-singing in D Minor / D Minor Tonic Chord / Sight-singing Skips in D Minor |
Song: This Winter Night |
G Major Scale / Sight-singing in G Major / G Major Tonic Chord / Sight-singing skips in G major |
Whole Note & Whole Rest |
Ties / Ties with Eighth Notes |
Dotted Quarter Notes |
Syncopation |
Song: Everybody Sing |
F Major Review / F Major Dominant Chord |
G Major Review / G Major Dominant Chord |
Pick Up Note / Eighth Rest |
Time Signature: 2/4 Meter / Sight-singing in 2/4 Meter |
Song: Hey, Mister Fiddler |
E Minor Scale, Tonic Chord, and Sight-singing |
Sixteenth Notes |
Major or Minor? |
Song: Like a Hidden Treasure |
Eighth & Sixteenth Note Combinations |
D Minor Dominant Chord and Sight-singing |
E Minor Dominant Chord and Sight-singing |
Song: Storm! |
Appendix: Rhythm Counting Methods |
Appendix: Sight-Singing Method & Movable Do |
Appendix: Numbers |
Appendix: The Piano Keyboard and Staff |