Intermediate Voice, Part 1 (Ages 4-7)
In this 7-week online course, students will advance their singing technique and musicianship skills, building upon the foundation they laid in Beginning Voice
Amber M McCullough
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4.7
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What's included
7 live meetings
3 hrs 30 mins in-class hoursClass 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. Later, students will be introduced to the concepts of head voice and chest voice and sing with correct posture, belly breathing, and supported long tones in both voices. Students will learn to keep a steady beat in 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8 time signatures and sing triplets and syncopated rhythms. Students will learn how to prepare a song for performance with others. (story, words, melody, actions) Students will learn the "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La" triad solfege steps and sing them in songs. Students will sing songs in more than one key. Week 1: Standing up straight, Belly breathing New Song: Sameer the Singer - Call and Response Review Solfege syllables Do, Mi, Fa, So, and La Keeping a steady beat, Matching pitches in low voice Perform Ring Around the Rosie Week 2: Practice belly breathing and breath control with hisses and humming Sameer the Singer in low and high voice Singing solfege syllables in high voice Perform Ring Around the Rosie Week 3: Practice belly breathing and breath control with hisses and humming Songs - Sameer the Singer, Ring Around the Rosie New Song: I've Got Rhythms - syncopation Games - Copycat game for repeating solfege melodies and rhythm patterns. Week 4: Practice belly breathing and holding longer notes Read and chant rhythms on flash cards - quarter notes and quarter rests Copy Cat game - repeat 6-note and 7-note melodies using solfege syllables Songs - Sameer the Singer (teacher calls, students respond), Ring Around the Rosie, I've Got Rhythms Week 5: Read, chant, and clap rhythms on flash cards - quarter notes and quarter rests Copy Cat game - repeat 6-note and 7-note melodies using solfege syllables Songs - Sameer the Singer, I Got Rhythms Week 6: Copy Cat game: Stepwise melodies Rhythms: quarter notes and quarter rests New song: The Grand Old Duke of York Sameer The Singer, I've Got Rhythms Week 7: Rhythms: quarter notes and eighth notes, eighth note triplets Adding the solfege syllable "Re" to "La-So-Fa-Mi-Do" melody sequence and solfege positions Perform Sameer The Singer choosing a student to lead the others, I've Got Rhythms, Grand Old Duke of York
Learning Goals
Students will learn singing and musicianship in the following areas:
Ear-Training:
-Matching pitches over one octave between middle C and high C
-Sing back melodic sequences with the solfege syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La
Sing a song in chest voice(keys of C and D) and head voice(key of F and G).
Rhythm:
-Clap or step to the beat of beginning-level songs
-repeat back rhythm sequences with triplets and syncopation.
Sight-Reading
-melodies with chromatic half-steps and larger leaps
-introduction to harmony parts
Technique:
-Erect yet relaxed posture
-Belly breathing
-Increased ability to sustain a tone
-High-voice and low-voice registers
Performance of solo and group songs for the class
Other Details
Supply List
Singing Lessons for Little Singers Level B available here: https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Lessons-Little-Singers-Beginner/dp/1514846667/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=blankenbehler&qid=1621898696&sr=8-5 (Optional, but fun!) Drum or rhythm sticks.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined April, 2020
4.7
50reviews
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.Reviews
Live Group Class
$70
for 7 classes1x per week, 7 weeks
30 min
Completed by 3 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 4-7
3-6 learners per class
