Here is a tried and true method of introducing the various ways we read pitches in music. Once a month will master the concept in one year!
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Flash® lesson plans!

Sample Flash® Lesson:
Sound and Silence


Repeat it often, or when one writes the pitches of a major/minor scale on the board.  Once a month to master the concept within a year, k-5/6th.

  • Starting with Do , write all of the solfeggio syllables* as the class calls them out.
Solfege Scale
  • "If we used numbers instead of the syllables,  what would Do be called?"
  • Put the correct number UNDER each syllable as the class calls them out.

Solfege Scale
Number Scale*

  • "If  used letters instead of the numbers, what would One (1) be called?"
  • Put the correct letter UNDER each number as the class calls them out.

Solfege Scale
Number Scale*

Letter Scale*
 

*As you write the name of each pitch, different colors can be used for Syllables, Numbers, and Letters. 

** PAUSE before writing the repeated 'Do' at the octave; wait for the right answer, "remember, if we repeated Do in the original, we have to repeat it again using the numbers or letters, so this would be...?" 

     
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