"Flex your growing prowess in audiation and playing skills at this keyboard musicianship event.
Music Moves for Piano students follow a well balanced audiation-based piano curriculum. The goal of this event
is to give students an outlet to perform audiation, musicianship, and improvisation skills,
learned in the Music Moves for Piano method, in a fun game format." ~4Inspiration.org
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Date: Saturday - February 12, 2022 Event Time: 11am-12noon PST Students Log-on Time: 10:40am (to set-up and check sound) Join the Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84229029682?pwd=RHJQMjRvUmI1dm03N0lubjJQWExwUT09 Meeting ID: 842 2902 9682 Passcode: pianogames Dresscode: Like a Winter Olympics Athlete (sweater/jacket, tuque, gloves...etc) |
This is the first time I am collaborating with my colleagues from the US to bring an international event together for our studio and it is extremely exciting. As a pilot event, there will be a few students from each of our studios participating this Saturday. We have participants joining from BC (Canada), Louisiana (US), Texas (US) and Wisconsin (US).
The Winter Piano Games will be recorded for two purposes:
1. Teachers will watch replays of the games to give feedback to other teachers to help their students enhance their technical skills.
2. Some photos or parts of recordings may be used for promotion of future events. If you do not wish to be shown on promotional videos, please let your teacher know and your faces can be blurred.
The Winter Piano Games will be recorded for two purposes:
1. Teachers will watch replays of the games to give feedback to other teachers to help their students enhance their technical skills.
2. Some photos or parts of recordings may be used for promotion of future events. If you do not wish to be shown on promotional videos, please let your teacher know and your faces can be blurred.
This will be an online board-game style event with an Olympics theme. We will have an opening and closing ceremony, with participants splitting up into three different breakout rooms in between for the Piano Games. Participants will be asked to do group activities and also individual activities to use the skills that they have been learning from their Music Moves Curriculum and lessons this year. For the individual activities, even though you may have done most of these activities in class, you can click on the tab with your name on it to prepare before Saturday!
Set-up on that Day:
Video view - Make sure we can see a full view of you and the piano (to be able to see and hear how you play)
Audio - If you sometimes have sound issues in class, please prepare a set of working earphones in case you may need to use it for this event.
At the end of the event: Participants will receive a music passport with sticker awards earned from this event to keep and use for upcoming international events every year. This will be given when you return to the studio in just a few weeks time.
Set-up on that Day:
Video view - Make sure we can see a full view of you and the piano (to be able to see and hear how you play)
Audio - If you sometimes have sound issues in class, please prepare a set of working earphones in case you may need to use it for this event.
At the end of the event: Participants will receive a music passport with sticker awards earned from this event to keep and use for upcoming international events every year. This will be given when you return to the studio in just a few weeks time.
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Some activities to get you ready for Saturday
1. Chant and play any of these patterns on the piano on 1 key a) Du-de Du, 2) Du-de Du-de, 3) Du Du, 4) Du Du-de 2. Play Whale Shark loudly or softly (skip the create your own version) 3. Play Floating Clouds duet fast or slow 4. Let's create a Bobsleigh Medley for the Olympics! You can decide to play all or just two of these triple meter pieces in any order to make it sound like a Bobsleigh: Floating Clouds duet, Stuck and Merry Go Round. |
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Some activities to get you ready for Saturday
1. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater on Black Keys and when G is DO, F is DO, C is DO. 2. Sing and play the tonic-dominant-tonic cadence when G is DO (RH, LH) and F is DO (RH, LH), separated touch. 3. Chant a 4 Macrobeat triple meter (macro/microbeat) pattern and perform it on 1 piano key. Use Du's & Du-da-di's. 4. Play the piece "Spinning" connected, separated, loudly and softly 5. Choose one of these duple meter patterns: 1) Du-de Du, Du-de Du 2) Du Du, Du-de Du 3) Du-de Du-de Du-de Du. Chant and play something on the piano that sounds like a Snowboarder....1) flying high OR 2) going down the slopes OR 3)turning and flipping. |
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Some activities to get you ready for Saturday
1. G or F: tonic-dominant-tonic melodic cadence and arpeggio with either hand separated (tall finger, all fingers) 2. Olympic Announcement Bells: Big Ben arrangement 3. Alpine Skiing Medley: 3 triple meter pieces from Book A 4. Chant and play a duple division pattern on one key (try different sorts of division patterns at home). Create anywhere on the piano. 5. Play a piece you created using TI-DO and MI-SO when G is DO - sounding like Figure Skating. |
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Some activities to get you ready for Saturday
1. Dorian German Folk Song (p3) - play in Dorian, then Major, Harmonic Minor and Mixolydian in any order! *Remember to play the cadence in both hands before you start so you can establish the tonality you're in & chords you'll be playing! 2. Practice translating duple division patterns from neutral syllable (Bah-bah's) to tonal syllable (Du-ta-de, Du-ta-de-ta's...etc) - Pattern CD track 8. Improvise each pattern on any of the notes of the tonic triad of this key a) Db major, b) Bb minor c) F# major or d) E major (E.g. - Db F Ab of Dbmajor) 3. Mixolydian Mexican Dance (p23) - change to triple meter 4. Echo with your voice a triple meter Division Elongation pattern (Pattern CD track 12 & track 16) and play the pattern on one key while you say(chant) the pattern. 5. Create an Olympic Victory Theme over a progression of your choice using the I and VII in Mixolydian (in a key that sounds victorious). 6. Create a tune in Dorian of a Ski Jumping event - use I, IV and VII. |
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