Sunday, September 11, 2011

Learning How To Teach Childrens Songs

By Billie Arrington


Learning new melodies can be an enlightening experience for kids who have just been introduced to new kinds of music. Most childrens songs have a very catchy beat and lyrics that sometimes rhyme. They are general very easy to remember because they are very easy for the child to pronounce. If you are planning to teach a child a new song you can start one line at a time and they will eventually improve.

By using song sheets children can learn notes which make trigger them to take interest in learning to play instruments and songwriting. If you want to start kids out on the right path you should first pick a song that is easy to pick up for them. After you this you should provide the song sheets and books with the lyrics on them.

For really young kids you should include a sheet that has images to visually stimulate their experience with the song. You will then read the music aloud and ask them if they have any questions about the words to that they can become familiar with them.

Once this is done you can move on to showing the child how to rest and breathe correctly before actually singing. Let them warm up their voice by doing vocal routines and then proceed to sing the first line of the song.

As they are singing you can join in and instruct them on how to change the pitch in their voice if needed for certain parts of a song. Once you have completed one line you can move to the next using the same process.

You can also teach them about hand gestures during singing which you will use to cue them to stop or go. When you have finally went through the song verse by verse they can now practice singing the song entirely day by day.




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