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Dates: Any date convenient to your music school
Days: Any day from Monday to Friday
Time: Any time from 9am to 3pm
Duration: Two Hours per session
Class size: 20 to maximum of 25 students per session
Age: 6 to 12 years old
Levels: Beginner levels and Intermediate levels
Part 1
In Part 1 of MPA, each student will be required to play One song from the pre-prescribed list. The song can be any of the current songs that they are learning or songs that they have previously learnt. We will have a brief discussion based on the three areas.
Presentation
Music presentation is about how students show or perform or entertain their audience with their music. A well rehearsed presentation will help develop true confidence and character in a student. Here we will discuss about different aspects and etiquettes of performance at the beginner level.
Articulation
In music, articulation refers to the performance technique which affects the music being played. Many times, we have seen that students especially the younger learner tend to forget about techniques learnt during lessons. These problems will be addressed here.
Musicianship
Musicianship to music is what sportsmanship is to any sport. In a basic sense it is obeying the rules of the subject. It can also be considered the character of music. In music class you are expected to follow the guidelines as to what is expected of every musician.
Musicianship is not about competing with other fellow students. It is about the positive attitude that students are supposed to show in their music.
Part 2
Melody Writing
Before writing a piece of music, it's critical to feed your mind with inspiration. Inspiration comes from all around us: our emotions, relationships, nature, people and experiences. A big part of finding inspiration is putting your own self in situations that rouse inspiration and then recognize it when it comes.
In Part 2 of MPA, we will get the students to move into this area of self-inspiration and to help them identify that inspiration when it comes and prepare themselves to write simple melodies.
FAQ
Why Should I Let My Students Join MPA
Quite often we get music teachers who ask this question. Well, it is a good question. To fully understand this point, it would be useful to place ourselves in a young child’s situation.
The following is a typical breakdown of a child’s daily routine. In a full day of 24 hours, the typical breakdown of time taken up by other activities is:
Sleep ............. 10 hours
School ........... 6 hours
Tuition ........... 3 hours
Homework .... 3 hours
This means there are still two hours left in a day, which makes it a total of 14 hours in one week. From 14 hours, if we take away 1 hour for the music lessons, there would still be 13 hours left.
Out of the 13 hours left, we need to ask ourselves if our students are doing anything musically creative. Understandably, a music teacher’s time is also very limited and given the expectations from parents to have their children achieve the highest grade in the shortest of time, there is practically not much musicality or creativity left in the students’ achievements. In the end, it is just a normal paper chase.
That is why Rhythm MP has created this MPA activity to help teachers to do what cannot be done in the normal music lesson class. Although we do not guarantee that students who attend MPA will be magically transformed to become more creative but more importantly, it will at the very least help stimulate the creative process. Besides, MPA will benefit students later on when they start going into their examination syllabus.
Benefits of Music Creativity
Children have the ability to respond naturally to music. Music Creativity allows the individual child to participate in a non stressful environment where each child responds NATURALLY to music.
Each of us thrives on a very high self esteem. Music Creativity allows us to use individual skills to relate, remember and respond to specific learning experiences. These experiences become lifetime lessons because Music Creativity allows us to create from within.
