Beginning Voice Class (7-10)

Completed by 10 learners

Ages 7-10

Live Group Class

In this 8-week online course, students will gain a solid foundation in singing technique and musicianship.

Amber M McCullough

Average rating:

4.7

Number of reviews:

(50 reviews)

Live video meetings

1x per week, 8 weeks

3-6 learners per class

45 min

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What’s included

8 live meetings

6 in-class hours

Homework

1-2 hours per week. Students will be expected to practice the material they learned in class approximately 10 minutes a day.

Class Experience

We will learn with exercises, songs, and games.
Students will be introduced to basic singing technique including correct posture, belly breathing, and supported long tones.
Students will learn how to match pitches, sing high/low and up/down tones.
Students will learn to keep a steady beat in 4/4 and 3/4 time signatures with chanting and clapping. 
Students will learn how to prepare a song for performance with others. (story, words, melody, actions)
Students will learn to sing a major scale ascending and descending.
Students will learn to read quarter notes half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, and eighth notes

Week 1: 
Practice posture and breathing.
Learn a welcome song.
Week 2:
Identify and clap out quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, and dotted half notes. Copy Cat rhythm game.
Learn the pitches and hand signs for Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So
Week 3:
Learn the names of the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff.
Learn the pitches and hand signs for La-Ti-Do'
Week 4:
Learn a second song as a group. Continue learning the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff.
Week 5:
Review songs and vocal exercises. Sing vowel sounds and connected notes.
Week 6:
Practice writing notes on the staff.
Learn a third song as a group.
Week 7:
Sing major scale ascending and descending in one breath.
Week 8:
Practice diphthongs ( joining two vowels together in a way that is pleasing to the ear)
Week 9:
Practice making crisp consonants.
Week 10:
Sing our songs for our families and each other.

Learning Goals

Students will learn singing and musicianship in the following areas: 

Ear-Training:
-Matching pitches played for them
-Introduction to Solfege: Do, Mi, Fa, So, La
Rhythm:
-Clap or step to the beat of beginning-level songs
-sing or clap rhythms played to the student
Sight-Reading
Technique:
-Belly breathing
-Tone production with humming and buzzing, progressing to singing an open vowel
-High-voice and low-voice registers
Performance of solo and group songs for the class

Other Details

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Amber M McCullough

Joined April, 2020

4.7

50reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

I teach music classes! 

How to sing it, how to play it, how to listen to it, how to read it, how to write it.

I've been making music most of my life, from my first piano lessons in grade school, to my Bachelor of Music from the Crane School of Music, to orchestra and choir performances, to a professional music teaching studio.

Music provides a creative outlet for expressing those big feelings that don't easily come out in words. Music study teaches valuable life skills such as focus, patience, and active listening.

“A kid with a music degree isn’t limited to a performance or teaching career. Musicians are everywhere. We are project managers, marketers, Finance folks, IT people and engineers."
~ Liz Ryan, “Let the kids study music, already!” Forbes, September 3, 2014.