Rhythm Remembrance
My teacher has taught me some words that will help me with basic rhythm, for example:
Bell= Quarter note
Ta-co= eighth notes
pea-nut-but-ter=sixteenth notes.
What about hard rhythms such as triplet sixteenths and triplets in general, or mixed rhythms such a a dotted note with another note and especially rest? What have your teachers advised you on using when playing these harder rhythms? Think of phrases that are cute and fun.
Thank You
Jazzy
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Mississippi- 16th note
Hot Dog- Eighth note
Neat post!!:)
Ham-bur-ger, for triplets
I think these are really useful, though every kid will be hungry as heck by the time they're done practicing or having a lesson.
I've always used:
eighth note: 1 & 2 &
sixteenth note: 1e&a 2e&a
32nd note: 1e&a 1e&a 2e&a 2e&a
triplet: trip-o-let
sixtuplet: trip-o-let trip-o-let (say trip-o-let twice per beat)
Greetings,
5= I`m in love with you
7= Nina Lolabrigida
Am I showing my age?
Cheers,
Buri
thematic--fruit
pear, apple, pineapple, watermelon
Sixteenth notes start saying all kinds of things to me while I play: missionary, woolybooger, dirty money, silly rabbit...
"Ape" for quarter notes...
"Monkey" for two eighth notes...
"Chimpanzee" for triplets...
And "orangutan" for sixteenth notes.
Musically (& monkey-ley),
Emily
My mother's words for a long bow followed by four short bows followed by a long bow (and so on) were "BIG pur-ple ele-phant"
tea
coffee
cocacola
blackcurrant
lemonade
pineapple
rest=sniff!
swing rhythm=banana, banana (but this works for Brit dialect, not US)
Beethoven's 7th:
Amsterdam, Amsterdam
I can already see where this is going to make teaching more fun:
"No no, it's Hot Dog, Hot Dog! You're doing Hamburger Hamburger!"
or," does that look like an orangatang to you? does it? for christs sake thats a monkey, where'd you study biology?"
We have a laugh on two levels in my lessons: I include beeer and wi-ine for longer notes, and my students slur their way through their pieces... hic...
Sue, how do you say "banana" over there? In Alaska we pronounce it "eye-sickle."
you pronounce banana eyesickle?
Greetings,
I thought that was a rather repetitive song by Queen...
Cheers,
Buri
"Icicle." It was a joke. Pertaining to what the cold does to fruit in Alaska. Apparently, this was not a good joke.
I found it amusing!
Yes, so did I... You may think that it's impossible to pronounce banana in more than one way - think Brit! Ba-nah-na, extra stress on the nah:)
triplets - tri-pe-let
pentlets (5 groups) - hip-po-pot-a-mus
7's (ie in Brahms' Academic FO) - Philharmonic is so cool (was thought up by the conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra i'm in)
Ben
"I want to ride my icicle, I want to ride my ice."
Greetings,
Emily, itwas a good joke. Whether or not it becomes a -great-joke is dependent on its ability to stand the test of time,
Cheers,
Buri
In Emily World, anything that makes Emily laugh is a good joke. I keep many just between me and myself. We laugh long and hard, ha ha!
Here's one for septuplets - Gi-na-Lol-lo-brig-i-da.
So, is it Gina or Nina??
It's GINA.
oops I didn't see that Buri had put in ms lollobrigida already. Anyway - it doesn't matter about the first name nina or gina both have the same rhythm..........
My favorite for triplets is
Cho-co-late :-)
What is Beethovin's favorite fruit?
Ba-na-na-na-naaa -sorry, but icicle just doesn't fit the rhythm. So as I look out the window at the snow falling and think that yesterday afternoon the kids were out in their little swimming pool I think that the Minuet in G would be more appropriate. - See the falling, falling, falling snowwww, falling snowwww, falling snow.
If you know the tune "The Old Woman and the Peddler" then this will make more sense.
I was so hungry during my last lesson that I incorporated food from this thread and wrote the entire song like this: Peanutbutter Ham-burger Hot-Dog-Bun, Ree--ses--Peanutbuttercup.(repeat) Ham-burger ham-burger hot-dog-bun Ree--ses--peanutbuttercup (DC al Fine) Well, at least my student thought it was funny. I think it helped.
Swing eighths:
Humpty Dumpty
triplets:
Sat on a
whole note:
wall.
Name this tune:
And coffee coffee blackcurrant blackcurrant blackcurrant blackcurrant blackcurrant coffee coffee coff/ee coffee coffee cocacola coffee coffee coffee cocacola coffee coffee coffee cocacola coffee coffee coffee cocacola coffee...
Any takers? I'll give you a clue - it's in Am;)
Greetings,
prune, prune, prune, puke!
Hint- its in c minor,
Cheers,
Buri
i got buri's, but it should be prune prune prune puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke.
as for sue's i'm stumped, but i didnt try all that hard, my brain hurts a bit right now.
Vivaldi, yes? The Suzuki-ites have composed an epic for that one, a word for every note. It's scary!
Yours has lots of caffeine in it, though, which I like. A peppy Vivaldi A minor.
Nice one Laurie! A rather more hyper concerto than the current Grade 3 Autumn: coffee coffee tea coffee blackcurrant coffee tea... Can you clue me in on the Suzuki version of the Am?
It is so obscenely long. I'll post it as another thread, okay? :)
Okay, it's up on my blog, the words to the first movement of the Vivaldi A minor Concerto. It's epic!
Bravo! Took out my copy and sang-along-a-Suzuki while laughing heartily!
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May 6, 2004 at 06:35 PM · huckleberry is a good one for 16ths.....
for triplets my student really likes straw-ber-ry.
A really fun one is 3 over 4: Pass the golden butter