Lesson 8

Parents come next week & tuition is due. Let's celebrate together the accomplishments of our fabulous students!

End of Year Recital
Saturday, May 21
4:30–5:45 p.m.
Trinity Heights United Methodist Church
3600 N Fourth St

Please join all of the Let’s Play Music students to enjoy a fun afternoon showing off all of the skills and songs we have learned. Recital rehearsal will take place during class on May 17/18. All Let’s Play Music students will perform the opener and closer together, perform in small groups, and Year 3 students will perform their own compositions. Enjoy a time of fellowship after the recital while munching on refreshments. (A refreshment sign up list will be sent out in early May.)
A digital invitation you can use to invite your family, extended family, neighbors or friends will be sent out soon.

$15/student. Register at http://www.infusingmusicstudios.com/performances.html. Registration is due by April 22.

All students need a LPM t-shirt ($11). I will place the order during Spring Break. The fee will be added to your March invoice. If you haven't already filled out the form, please let me know which color and size you would like using this link: https://forms.gle/43xaitjoBTVSgtdB7

Are You Sleeping?
This song reinforces the solfege hand signs. Very soon we’ll sing in a round, letting us hear multiple layers of music. Hearing music in our head and being able to stay on the part we are singing is a great skill for musicians to learn.

B-I-N-G-O
Who knew BINGO had such rich music concepts to learn from? When we sing it, we feel the quiet internal beats and learn to anticipate when to clap.

Chords in Pieces - audiation (hear in your head)
As we sang “Chords in Pieces” we left out some of the chords and audiated them in our heads instead of singing them aloud. Again, much of the learning in 1st year is subconscious and unseen. The musical development that is happening to your little musician right now won't be seen by the naked eye, but will be harvested down the road!
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Bug Rhythms
We mixed up the order of the bugs and with no verbal cues we sang and clapped the bug rhythms. Your amazing kiddos were able to do “Can’t Bug Me” perfectly. Wow, they are learning so quickly!

It is easy to underestimate the significance of solfege. It helps us label something abstract like notes, uses whole body involvement, helps us understand scales and key signatures, aids in learning about intervals, helps us sight read/sing music, and so much more! Click here to read about the many reasons why we use solfege in Let's Play Music!