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	Available Games: Pachelbel's Canon Made Easy Workbook Pachelbel's Canon Made Easy Workbook. By the end of Suzuki Literature Book One, students start to learn Pachelbel's Canon. They have already been prepared by the workbook, "Rounds". There are ten pages of colored notes that give the student a small addition to their weekly practice. The colors show clearly how the canon is set up in octaves. Shifts are minimal but crucial. Violin Parts Go Fish The violin parts game where the definition or name of the part is on one card and the picture on another. Each game has a clue card to provide you with the correct answers. Definitely a great game for group lessons Parts of the Violin Study Flash Cards Cards with pictures of violin and bow parts including the name of the part will help the student to quickly learn the parts of the violin - a new language they will be using to discuss their violin position and technique. It's easier than saying, "put your finger on that thingamagig over there". Violin Parts-Large Bits Large 8 1/2"x11" pictures of the individual parts of the violin. Each picture has a page of information regarding the part, it's use, it's construction. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you learn major life lessons and major information assimilation? One bit of information at a time. No overload. Take it easy. slow down! My suggestion: offer one bit of information at a time. Here's a movie about the large violin and bow bits. It's a game. < Parts of the Bow Large Bits E-Book 'Parts of the Bow' Large bits Large 8 1/2" x 11" pictures of the individual parts of the bow. Each picture has a page of information regarding the part, it's use, it's construction. Again, my suggestion: offer one bit of information at a time. First Position Tic Tac Toe/Bingo Lots of tic tac toe boards and cards. Place your marker on either the exact picture or the note on the staff that represents that finger placement. A fun game for teaching music theory in a private or group situation. You need to know this information. Why not learn it while having fun? Musical Symbols Tic Tac Toe Great game for group lessons. Beginner tic tac toe boards with basic musical symbols. Three teams make the game more of a challenge. Have a student pick and call the cards and either show the symbol, for early beginners, or name the symbol and have the players decide which symbol they should cover. Beginner Spit-cato A foundational game to understanding just about everything. First you need to know the order of notes. What note comes before or after the other. Beginner Spit-cato teaches the basics. There is a total of some kind of seven notes. That's it. But forget about learning them and it is like trying to learn to read without knowing the alphabet. Start here!! Advanced Spit-cato Here it is! The fast and furious game that everyone needs to master. Have you ever played Spit? This game gets just as fast! The difference is that you learn something that will help you become a better musician. In the end, you might not realize all you know until you start to use it. You will know, the order of the violin fingerboard, the order of the cello, guitar, almost any stringed instrument's fingerboard. You will know the order of sharps and flats, the circle of fifths and fourths and well, master the game then test yourself. Morse code When I was a kid, my friend and I would sit on a tall fence, with the sun so hot............ it felt comforting to feel an unexpected breeze and to hear the rustle of leaves while we sat for hours talking our secret language. I ontday avehay otay elltay ouyay owhay uchfay unfay eway adhay!!! Now, you can make your instrument talk a musical secret code game. Spend a hot summer day by the lake or a chilly evening around a campfire tapping or singing a secret code. It might be just a much fun on a chilly winter night to gather around the fireplace........ maybe in group lesson, private lesson or just as a diversion during practice time. Increase the tempo or slow it down. It doesn't matter, it is just one kind of note with the note that is twice as long. Have fun!! e-Book April Fool's Joke When Mozart and Bach were young, what games did they play? They wrote music that could be played from top to bottom and bottom to top at the same time. That's fun. That's crazy! ha How did they do this without all the gadgets we have today? They knew music. They knew it backwards and forwards and upside down. Play the April Fool's Game and find out what they knew. Place a note a second up or a second down from your hand onto the middle pile. The trick is that there is no right way up. The staff can be read from the top down or bottom up. A 'C' can be an 'A'. An 'F' is an 'E'. It's fast, it gets wild and you'll learn a lot. Have fun! Notation Babble Violin G clef Notation Babble Cello F clef Notation Babble Viola C clef Notes spelling words on the staff matching words that spell the word on the staff - sounds like I'm babbling... Each staff has a different combination of letters giving it a unique combination of spelled words. As an accomplished musician, you need to see and understand the BIG picture. E-Book Composer Cards-the Composers That We Play! The Suzuki Literature is based on the great musical pieces of wonderful composers. Wouldn't it be nice to know what the composer who wrote the music you play looked like? Take Dvorzak. He looks like a bear, but when you play his music, it transforms him into a teddy bear. Identify the style of each composer. Play Twinkle in that style. See if your friends can tell which composer's style you are playing. Counting Music Do you like pizza? The Whole thing? How would you share it if three of you wanted a piece. What would happen if one of you was hungrier than the rest? Say two of you got equal pieces and the other, twice as much. That would be like a half note and two quarter notes filling the same measure. The counting music game is a great beginning to learning to read music. Add to it the Awareness of Symbols and Awareness of Beat ebooks and you have covered all your bases. Musical Terms: 100 Terms Card Game Over two hundred cards including terms and definitions Make up dozens of games to help you learn the musical terms and expressions. Musical Terms: Study Cards An ebook of well over 100 study cards, each giving the musical term and it's definition for study purposes. Have fun and pick a card and then play a passage according to the musical term. Major Minor Madness Sharps and flats create keys or teams of notes, the 'Majors' and the 'Minors'. This game is a study game to teach which teams use the same notes, or team members and the order of sharps and flats. Teacher Manual Large Bits One bit of information at a time to start. The violin has notes that can be played in a number of places. To do this, you place your hand somewhere along the 'neck' (see why you need the violin part cards). When you place the left hand somewhere other than at the 'nut' ah ditto, it is called another position. The large bit cards include just about all the information you need to know about that one note. Finger Positions Made Easy Teacher Manual Large Bits First Position Large Bits - When playing the violin, you can play most of the notes with any finger, in different positions. To start with, learn to play first position, where your thumb is placed next to the nut. This series of ebooks consists of large pictures, 8 1/2" x 11" over 70 pages 2nd position large bit ebook 3rd position large bit ebook The rest of the large teacher manual bit books are available. Just email and express your interest. http://www.carolanderson@scalesarentjustafishthing.com 4th position large bit ebook 5th position large bit ebook 6th position large bit ebook 7th position large bit ebook Finger Position Card Game Now that you have learned about finger positions with the large bits, here is a game of small cards with all seven of the finger positions represented in "Finger Positions Made Easy". Use them as a memory game, Go Fish, study cards...your imagination is your only limitation. Musical Terms Board Game Absolutely essential musical terms game teaching musical expressions and their definitions. A large colorful gameboard full of musical terms and definitions, 17" x 22" with musical terms and their definitions. Pick a card and cover either the exact card or it's definition. When a player gets a determined number of their mansies in a row, they win. These games are learning tools, so they come with suggestions for use. They can be used in many ways to teach the desired 'goal of the day'. Musical Terms Playing Cards Over 200 cards and definitions of musical terms Piano bits and card game Soon to come. Piano bit and card game to help learn the names of the keys in relationship to the the musical staff. Violin Fingerboard Pattern Ebook (Colored) This Ebook and the fingerboard that can be produced by it, is an excellent addition to your home practice room or teaching studio. The fingerboard is set up as a series of patterns. Once the patterns are easily seen, advanced musical concepts will be understood; Intervals, finger patterns, scales, modes, finger positions, shifting, all come to life with this large colored fingerboard. Early Beginner Reading Music Workbooks Awareness of Beat A very early beginner workbook with large bits of information designed to point out a beat and the duration of notes Awareness of Shapes A great bit book with large pages with one 'bit' of information. The description side of the page gives a number of descriptive comments to make the understanding of the symbol shape more complete. Awareness of Shapes Available in Spanish Object manipulation Lots of pages of small cards with each of the note symbols. Cut the cards and have the student match like symbols, learn which symbol equals two of another symbol, create a measure making the symbols add up to the number of beats in the measure. Violin Parts Memory Game The violin parts memory game is a game of matching like pictures. Each part has two cards. Lay the cards in a large square with the picture side down. Pick two cards you think are the same. If you get a match take the cards and the turn passes to the next player. This is a great game for NON-readers.

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Don't hit a wall when you approach a difficult piece. Make it fun!! Sing:"Everybody likes a little birthday cake...to the tune of Gavotte by Gossec. See how much fun you have learning this graduation piece.

Gavotte by Gossec solo

Gavotte by Gossec workbook

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Finally!! Pachelbel's Canon in color to play-along with.

Pachelbel's Canon

Also, yeah..an updated Pachelbel workbook.

Pachelbel's Canon

If you have purchased the workbook in the past, the new one will be sent as a thankyou!!

Hierarchy of Notes and Rests is FREE. ENJOY!!

Here is the Minuet 1 practice music. Yeah!!

Minuet 1 solo

Minuet 1 with accompaniment

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