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www.thefullvoice.com 2018 Teacher Sample package Fun and educational music resources for the inspired Voice Teacher

INCLUDES 40 SAMPLE PAGES Hey there, Voice Teacher!

Thank you for your interest in the FULL VOICE MUSIC resources. We LOVE working with young singers and we are dedicated to creating fun, colourful and educational materials for voice teachers working with young singers. This download includes sample lessons from the FULL VOICE Workbooks, Sight Singing Superhero and Vocal Warm-ups and Technical Exercises for Kids activity boards.

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One Tonic Sol-fa: DO to MI 4 Two Tonic Sol-fa: DO to SO 6 Three Tonic Sol-fa: DO to DO’ 8 Four Tonic Sol-fa Scale / Quarter Notes and Half Notes 10 Five Breathing / Clapping and Counting / Whole Notes 12

Review One 14

Six Tonic Sol-fa Without Hand Signs /Counting and Singing /Dotted Half Notes 16 Seven Tonic Sol-fa / Listening Activity / Counting and Singing/ The Music Staff 18 Eight Tonic Sol-fa / Music Notes Review / Writing Notes with Stems 20 Nine Tonic Sol-fa / Counting and Singing / The Treble Clef 22 Ten Musical Alphabet / Note Names on the Music Staff / Note Names: Middle C and D 24

Review Two 26

Eleven Technical Exercises / Learning Line Notes 28 Twelve Singing Legato / Listening Activity / Learning Space Notes 30 Thirteen Singing Steps / Steps on the Staff / Tonic Sol-fa Moving in Steps / Performance Assessment # 1 32 Fourteen Singing Skips / Skips on the Staff / Tonic Sol-fa Moving in Skips 34 Fifteen Singing Steps and Skips / Tonic Sol-fa Moving in Steps and Skips / Identifying Steps and Skips 36

Review Three 38

Sixteen Singing Steps and Skips / Tonic Sol-fa: Triad / Bar Lines, Measures and Time Signatures 40 Seventeen Quarter Rest / Half Rest 42 Eighteen Whole Rest / Writing Rests 44 Nineteen Singing Scales / Listening Activity / Counting Rhythms with Rests 46 Twenty Singing with Dynamics / Listening Activity / Writing Music 48

Introductory Level Review 50

Additional Music Writing Activities Additional Rhythm Reading Exercises 52 Performance Assessment Form #2 and #3 54 Mini Recital 55 Repertoire List 56 TONIC SOL- FA: DO TO MI Date: ______

Tonic sol-fa is a singing method that uses words and hand signs for every note in a scale. Tonic sol-fa is very easy to learn and helps singers to sing out confidently. Tonic sol-fa is also a fun activity. Your FULL VOICE workbook has lots of tonic sol-fa games and activities for you to try with your teacher, classmates and parents.

Here are the first three hand signs of the tonic sol-fa scale.

DO RE MI Your teacher will show you how to sing and sign them.

1. � Sing and sign the first three notes of the scale with your teacher slowly.

a) Sing and sign repeating notes.

Repeating notes stay at the same pitch. DO DO DO

b) Sing and sign ascending notes.

Ascending means that the MI pitch moves higher. RE DO

c) Sing and sign descending notes.

MI Descending means that the RE pitch moves lower. DO

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Hi Voice Teacher! Thank you for your interest in the Vocal Warm-Ups and Technical Exercises for Kids! resource. This fun download includes four pages from the ebook.

The warm-up part of the voice lessons is important. Not only are we are helping our students explore and discover their voices, but we are introducing basic music concepts and developing music reading skills.

Many of our young singers are visual learners. They need to see the information as well as hearing them to comprehend and process the information. We created these activity pages to assist teachers in providing a fantastic vocal warm-up and engaging beginner voice students in a comprehensive curriculum that includes ear-training, music theory, and 1. Tonic Sol-fa sight singing. 2. Tonic Sol-fa

This resource is available in two formats, 8.50 x 11 glossy card stock 3. Vowel Sounds “activity boards” and as a digital download (pdf) for easy printing. 4. Steps & Skips This resource includes a reproducible private studio/classroom license for personal use only. This resource can be copied/printed for your private 5. Tones & Semitones students or music classroom…forever! Not for resale or distribution. To 6. Singing Major Scales purchase please visit: https://www.thefullvoice.com/warmupsforkids/ 7. Singing Major Triads

These pages include activities from the FULL 8. Awesome Arpeggios VOICE Workbook Series. The FULL VOICE Workbooks are a comprehensive curriculum 9. Tongue Twisters researched and developed for the young 10. Singing with Articulations vocal student ages 6 and up. Every workbook includes technical exercises, music theory, 11. Singing with Dynamics rhythm reading, ear training, sight singing and MORE. 12. Scales, Triads & Arpeggios 13. Ascending Chromatic Scale

The FVWS is now available in music stores across Canada and the United 14. Descending Chromatic Scale States. They are always available at thefullvoice.com. Get your Teacher 15. Chromatic Challenges Welcome Package today! 16. Major & Minor Pentascales Now available in AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 17. Singing Minor Triads

18. Natural Minor Scale Questions? Comments? Please contact us. We are always here to help. [email protected] / 905-297-0284 (Mon - Fri) 19. Harmonic Minor Scale

Inspired Vocal Music Lessons 20. Melodic Minor Scale Visit our website for more great resources for your young singers. www.thefullvoice.com *21-45 Printer Ink Friendly Pages thefullvoice.com

A triad is a chord made up of the first, third, and fifth SINGING major notes of a scale. The notes on the staff move from line to line to line or space to space to space. triads A major triad is made up of the first, third and fifth broken solid notes of a major scale. DO, MI, SO. If the notes are played triad triad one after another it is a broken triad. If the notes are played at the same time, it is called a solid triad.

1. ��Sing the following: SO SO a) DO DO MI MI b) DO MI DO MI

SO SO SO c) DO MI MI d) DO MI MI MI

2. � Sing major triads ascending and descending using tonic sol-fa after your teacher plays a starting note.

3. � Listen to the following three-note melodies, played at random by your teacher. 4. ��Identify if the melodies are tones, semitones or triads.

tones semitones triad

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Articulations specify how individual notes are to be performed within a phrase or passage of music. Articulation markings are symbols that tell us how to exactly sing (or play) a note (or notes).

legato Sing legato! Legato means smooth and connected.

1. ��Sing the following exercise using relaxed, open vowel sounds.

The curved line connecting the notes is called a slur. It tells us to sing legato.

Sing Staccato! Staccato means short and detached. Staccato staccato notes are marked with dots above or below the note head.

2. ��Sing the following exercise slowly.

Return to repertoire

Can you find articulation markings Articulation challenge in the music you are performing? Why do you think the composer 3. ��Sing the following exercises slowly. wanted to use different articulations in this song?

4. ��Draw your own articulation markings in the exercise below. 5. ��Sing your new exercise slowly. (Or make your teacher sing it!)

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A semitone is the smallest interval. A chromatic scale is a scale that moves in semitones. You use different tonic sol-fa syllables ascending when you ascend and descend. Chromatic Scale Ascending chromatic tonic sol-fa syllables are pronounced with an “EE” di ri fi si li sound. (di = “dee”) DO’

1. ��Sing the ascending chromatic scale very slowly. (Hand signs optional) TI

a) � li DO di RE ri LA � b) si

DO di RE ri MI FA fi SO SO

c) � fi FA DO di RE ri MI FA fi SO si LA li TI DO’

MI 2. �Sing the ascending chromatic scale above using: a) vowel sounds. b) different dynamics (piano and forte). ri c) different tempo (lento, moderato and allegro). RE d) different articulations (legato and staccato).

3. � What is a sharp? di 4. � Are you singing any songs that have chromatic passages? DO Start HERE 13

Teacher tips! Sight Singing Is Super Fun! FREE SAMPLE Ok, Learning to read music takes time and effort - but when you break it down into small simple activities, include visual play-based music games and cheer your students to victory - it can be a fun time! And your young singers will become sight singing superheros in no time! PAGES Start with the basic skills training 1. Tonic Sol-fa Do - MI Confident singing Tonic sol-fa is a method that allows singers to sing unaccompanied and 2. Tonic Sol-fa DO - SO quickly build their confidence. Start with simple warm ups using the 3.Tonic Sol-fa DO- DO’ tonic sol-fa scale and let them sing without piano accompianment. Encourage your singers to sing scales, triads and arpeggios without 4. Tonic Sol-fa Triads singing or playing the notes with them. 5. Rhythm Reading - Notes Rhythm Reading 6. Singing & Counting Rhythms Superhero singers can learn the note values and practice simple rhythms by clapping and counting aloud. Encourage your singers to keep a slow 7. Rhythm Reading Rests and steady tempo. 8. Time Signatures Notes on the Staff 9. Eighth Notes Just like piano students, our super singers need to be able to read notes on the music staff. This resource includes mini note flashcards to make 10. Rhythm Reading Drills learning notes fun. Writing activities help too! 11. Music Staff & Treble Clef Interval Study 12. Notes on the lines/spaces Young singers can use scales, triads and arpeggios to hear and sing simple intervals. They don’t know it yet - but they have supersonic 13. Singing Major Scales listening skills already! 14. Sight Singing Putting in all together 15. 2 bar drills (DO-MI) Once future superheros have developed strong music skills, simple two bar sight singing drills can help to put all the skills together. Encourage 16. 2 Bar drills (DO-SO) singers to keep a super slow tempo and try drills more than once! 17. 2 bar drills (DO-LA)

18. Two bar drills (DO-DO’) Printer Ink Friendly ebook download. 19. Flashcards This resource is also available as a printable download for sharing with your students. It can be printed in colour or 20. flashcards grey scale.

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The letter names of the notes on wF the staff lines make a sentence Notes on Bw wD that is easy to remember. =====& wE wG lines Every Good Boy Deserves Fun

1. ��Identify the line notes.

w w & w ======w w w __w

The letter names of the notes Notes on on the spaces spell a word that is easy to remember: E F A C E C spaces F A

1. ��Identify the SPACE notes.

w w w w w ======& w w

Super hero tip: Want to be SUPER FAST at naming the notes on the staff? Use the note naming FLASH CARDS and become a note naming hero! C Major sight singing drills -

1. � Look at each example carefully and answer the questions aloud. 2. ��Clap and count the rhythms. 3. � Sight sing the melodies slowly.

i) how many beats is this note held for?

ii) What kind of rest is this?

i) What is the starting note?_____

ii) What is the ending note? iii) How many beats is this note held for?

4. ��Sight sing the following melodies slowly.

a) � b) �

c) � d) �

e) � f) �

g) � h) �

i) � j) �