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Tempo: Landscaping

Goal: To develop nuance with getting faster and getting slower.

Out of Tempo

Using the name game.

Beginning

  1. Teacher spells out the letters of their name slowly.
  2. Students repeat.
  3. Teacher spells out the letters of their name starting slowly and then slowly speeds up.
  4. Students repeat.

Intermediate

  1. Teacher spells out the letters of their name quickly.
  2. Students repeat.
  3. Teacher spells out the letters of their name quickly and slowly slows down.
  4. Students Repeat.

Advanced

  1. Teacher spells out the letters of their name slowly, then faster, then slowly.
  2. Students repeat.
  3. Teacher spells out the letters of their name at different speeds.
  4. Students repeat as spoken by the teacher.

In Tempo

Same as Out of Tempo exercises.

Speaking, singing, playing.

Numbers, letters, solfege.

Teacher sets up a tempo, time signature, tonality, one note/syllable per measure at first.