Teaching 8 - 10 Year Old Jazz Quavers

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Teaching 8 - 10 Year Old Jazz Quavers, Written straight

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Symphony	May 3 2006, 03:35 PM Post #1
Unregistered	im a little late in posting this but hoping to get some ideas before my exam tomorrow on how to teach 8 - 10 year olds to swing quavers in jazz style, also to play off the beat, and how to differenciate between 'on and off' beat when there are quaver rests involved. Any ideas? - Have college exam tomorrow in teaching and of course they would give me jazz, of which I know nothing. Was contemplating using the technique of thinking the word "ham-ster ham-ster" on the quavers in dotted quaver to semiquaver style but anyone else have any ideas?

scoobydog	May 3 2006, 04:25 PM Post #2
Unregistered	Why not compare straight / swung quavers to walking and skipping? You could walk in quavers - one foot to each note, then skip them. I have also used "scoo-by" and "doo-bie" to sing them to my brass kids (who are roughly that age). Silly words also work well - pick a particular phrase and put really silly words to them - my brass band love singing "violins are rub-bish" for a tricky part in one of our pieces! Hope this helps

chocolatedog	May 3 2006, 04:53 PM Post #3
Unregistered	I use 'La-zy Dai-sy' quite a lot or 'Hump-ty Dump-ty' might also work....

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