Stepping up and down the staff and introducing the beginning Orff interval, So\Mi. A wonderful five finger keyboard exercise for left and right hands.
Description
- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: France – Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta (ta) |
- Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So, stepping up and down the staff between tonic and dominant
- Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, beginning Orff interval
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; introoducing beamed eighth notes, adding eighth notes to quarter and quarter rest, beginning five finger keyboard exercise
- Key Words: world geography: France; river, singing, flows, nature
- Keyboard: beginners: excellent five finger keyboard exercise
Extend the experience by mastering “Finding Do-Mi-So” Pitch Warm-up in G Major, prior to reading “The Happy River.”
Hear the happy river, |
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