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Engage and model!

Engage and model!. Alternative warm-up techniques you will make routine to establish focus and characteristic timbre with your ensemble while reaching all learning styles. Warm-up routines should…. Bring calm to your classroom Create focus/engage students Establish characteristic timbre

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Engage and model!

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  1. Engage and model! Alternative warm-up techniques you will make routine to establish focus and characteristic timbre with your ensemble while reaching all learning styles.

  2. Warm-up routines should… • Bring calm to your classroom • Create focus/engage students • Establish characteristic timbre • Set the scene for what is to come

  3. Elements of a warm-up activity • Breathing • Singing • Listening • Responding • Performing on instruments

  4. Breathing • Breathing gym • Games/contests • Exercises • Stretches • YOUR ideas?

  5. Singing • Solfege • Call-response/echo • Ideas for getting instrumentalists to sing… …Start with one sustained note: solfege “do” …Sing “to yourself” while model sings full. …Hum …Starting with beginners and making routine is ideal! …YOUR ideas?

  6. Listening • Masterful teacher performance • Recordings of exemplary models • Student models • Guest performers • Use resources like YouTube, etc.

  7. Responding • Call/response (echo game, ear training) • Dictation • Accountable talk (using content vocabulary)

  8. Performing on instruments • Using Solfege, play “Do”… …Encourage listening across ensemble …“Put your sound inside everyone’s” • Echo game/ear training… …Incorporate elements to be presented in rehearsal (key, rhythms, etc.) …Practice playing in unfamiliar keys …Try using canons/rounds • Scales… …in round …different rhythms/articulations

  9. BUST out of your comfort zone! • Don’t be afraid to try something new and different. • PRACTICE unfamiliar techniques before using them in the classroom.

  10. David “Lee” Sellers Jr. • Windy Ridge K-8 School • Orange County Public Schools • david.sellers@ocps.net

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