Sound Beginnings Sample Class

Come enjoy a free sample class of the fall curriculum for Sound Beginnings.  

Sound Beginnings, a similar class to Let's Play Music, is designed to give kids that are too young for Let's Play Music (2-4 years old)  a jump start on music and preschool concepts.  

Specific skills that will be covered this semester include:

feeling and keeping the beat
in-tune singing, pitch matching, head register
solfeg, major scale descending
tracking; reading preparation
singing & recognizing alphabet
phonemic awareness & phonics
developing relative pitch
low and high
enjoyment of classical music
developing recognition of theme and form
subdivision
dexterity
months
colors
manners
weather
name recognition

You're Invited

Please come to our 2013 Year-End Recital

Saturday, May 4th 2013

11:00 AM

Wasatch High School Little Theater

Featuring Students from Both Sound Beginnings and Let's Play Music

Sound Beginnings Instrument Day Inspiration

One of my favorite lessons each semester of Sound Beginnings is our last one where students get to bring and share about instruments (and instrumentalists) they love.  This relaxed and fun day is a blast!  Students are welcome to bring an instrument that is laying around the house, especially fun is when a loved one can play that instrument and show first-hand what is sounds like and how it works.  Last semester we had an uncle come along and play some Christmas songs on his trumpet since it was that season.  How proud those little boys were of what (and who) they got to share!

Sometimes a real instrument isn't accessible or the process of creating one and exploring the ways that sound is produced as it is created is more desirable.  The following are a few links to some inspiration for a home-made instrument.

• Rainstick (my cute sister-in-law made this one.)
• Paper Plate Banjo
• Drums, Egg Shakers, Bell Shakers, Cardboard Guitar, Etc
• Easter Egg Maracas
• Drums (and an experiment on how sound is made)
• DIY Instrument Kits  (good visual inspiration.  Love the jingle bell bracelet.)
• Wind instrument Craft

Benefits of Music Education

What are the benefits of music education?  Besides being really fun, music is a great brain booster by helping to develop areas of the brain associated with language and reasoning.  Music also helps develop the ability to think creatively and to solve problems.  Those involved in music also tend to do better on standardized testing.  (To read more benefits of music click here.)