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Free Piano Lessons 4 Kids Review

Tamsyn — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:37:00 +0000

Today I’m so excited to share a wonderful resources with you- FREE piano lessons! No joke, check it out. (Free Piano Lessons for Kids has since become Hoffman Academy: https://www.hoffmanacademy.com/) His videos are also available on YouTube, like this one.When I was a teenager, I remember asking my Dad, an entrepreneur, why he one of […]

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Musescore E-Course

Tamsyn — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:13:00 +0000

Assignments Music Notation assignment number one Music Notation assignment number two Music Notation assignment number three Music Notation assignment number four Music Notation assignment number five Music Notation assignment number six Introduction to the course As a music major, one of the most useful classes that I took in college was computer applications in music. […]

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Teaching primary songs on the piano

Tamsyn — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:41:00 +0000

Since I started teaching my little girl piano, she has begged and begged me to be able to play her very favorite song in the world, which is “I am a Child of God”. To make this song accessible to her, I color coded it with solfege and she has taken off with it. I […]

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Violin for Toddlers

Tamsyn — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:21:00 +0000

First of all, is the violin for toddlers? A few years ago if you had told me that I would start my boy out on the violin while he was two, I probably wouldn’t have believed it. But that was a few years ago. As I have studied early childhood development from authors such as […]

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Summer Music

Tamsyn — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:36:00 +0000

The weather is warm, school is out, and summer vacation is here. With the warm weather come farmers markets, family reunions, county fairs, rodeos, festivals, and holidays to divide our time. It is a wonderful time of year for children, if you can beat the heat.With all of these festivities and celebrations comes an outpouring […]

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autumn leaves

Tamsyn — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:21:00 +0000

Autumn Leaves I learned Autumn Leaves during my Orff 1 training course from a phenomenal early childhood music specialist, Saskia Beverloo, who translated it from the original Dutch. I originally created this activity when I interned with the local children’s choir, but now it serves as a valuable part of our preschool collection. Local preschool […]

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Kodaly method

Tamsyn — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:14:00 +0000

an essay by Tamsyn Spackman Allow me to set the stage to illustrate what the Kodaly Method can do. Imagine entering a classroom and witnessing a group of students who have an amazingly balanced education in music. They can sing major, minor, and pentatonic scales, recognize all major, minor, and perfect intervals by sight and […]

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Homemade Instruments

Tamsyn — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:23:00 +0000

There are few things more thrilling to young children than making homemade instruments and then playing them in a family orchestra. Virtually anything that can be hit, plucked, shaken, or blown can be turned into an instrument. There are too many articles and books written on musical instrument toys for this to be a comprehensive […]

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