This Amazon Adventure Bundle includes three pieces depicting animals from South America. These pieces are excellent Rote and Reading® selections for mid elementary students. Each piece in the Amazon Adventure Bundle can be taught by rote, reading or a combination of both. Each piece has patterns that help the student move easily all over the piano.
All of these pieces are PDF instant downloads, all come with their beautiful covers plus the bonus Amazon Adventure cover, and all come with bonus mp3 tracks to help your student learn the pieces more quickly.
Amazon Adventure Bundle Includes:
Monkeying Around – mid elementary
River Dolphins– mid elementary
Jaguar Jungle – mid elementary
Your purchase also includes the Amazon Adventure Bundle Cover!
What Skills are Required to Play Amazon Adventure Bundle?
These pieces are mid-elementary level and River Dolphins will also be enjoyed by students that are late elementary. None of the pieces require the student to be able to read and can easily be taught by rote. However, we always recommend showing the student a score so that they have a sense of the direction of the pitch, when motives change, etc. Teaching these pieces in this way helps students learn to read the visual cues of the music score and can help them pay more attention to these things as they are learning to read. These pieces are also excellent pieces for reading students as well.
In Monkeying Around and Jaguar Jungle, the smallest note value is the quarter note. River Dolphins contains eighth notes (though students do not need to know anything about eighth notes prior to the piece) and does include pedal (which can be held down through the entire piece).
There are sharps, flats and naturals notated (no key signatures), but these can be easily taught by rote.
Bonus Mp3s Included
Your purchase of the Amazon Adventure Bundle includes bonus mp3 performance tracks for each piece. You can send this mp3 to students to introduce or help them learn the piece.
The Power of Rote and Reading® Teaching
When you combine rote teaching with teaching to read music, students are much more excited about their progress and usually stay motivated longer. This is because kids know that they can play music that is much more difficult than they can read.
Think of the way kids learn to read. They first learn to “do” the language (i.e. speak it) before they ever learn to read it. In the same way, students best learn when we show them how to “do” the piano before they learn to read the notes. For more thoughts on the value of rote teaching and how long it really takes a child to learn to read music, read: How Long Does It Take to Learn to Read Music?
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