Today, my 8th grade students received new piece called Toccatina. I wanted to play the recording of the piece before we rehearse the piece, but I didn't have the CD for Toccatina So I downloaded video through Youtube. We listened to the piece and I had my students to air bow (bowing without sound) and do the fingerings while they are listening the recording. This is one of the strategies to sigthread music when they get the a piece music that they have never seen. After we listened to the piece, I gave the class about two minutes to airbow and do the fingerings again. Then, we started to rehearse the piece. This really helped the students to be familiar with the rhythms and the notes before they actually play on their instrument.
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