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A great start for any teacher would be to introduce music literacy to more students during this year.\u00a0 If you have handchimes at your disposal, teaching music reading with the help of colors couldn\u2019t be simpler! At ChimeWorks<\/a>, we have developed tools for teaching young children to develop eye-hand coordination using colors and symbols and then, systematically moving on to colored-coded notes on the staff and ultimately reading handchime\/handbell notation.<\/p>\n We begin by using colors that are closely correlated to those used in Boomwhacker\u00ae<\/sup> and KidsPlay\u00ae<\/sup> systems.\u00a0 Therefore, one will be able to use our lesson plans with handchimes and\/or Boomwhackers and KidsPlay bells to teach music literacy.\u00a0 Sensitivity is given to the use of colors alone due to the statistics that 1 in 12 males and 1 in 200 females suffer from color vision deficiency.\u00a0 Along with a select color for each pitch we have allocated a shape modeled closely to those used in shape-note singing.<\/p>\n Coupled, these symbols are referred to as Icons<\/em> \u2013 non-traditional symbols used to notate music.\u00a0\u00a0 They allow students to quickly \u201cread\u201d music without the worry of not knowing standard musical notation.\u00a0\u00a0 They also allow students to quickly express themselves at an early-learner stage with known symbols rather than struggling with music notation.\u00a0 The use of icons develops eye-hand coordination rapidly allowing students to quickly adapt to numbers, pitch names, solfege and then standard music notation.<\/p>\n Since icons are used with non-music readers, they can be utilized with younger children.\u00a0 These same children may not yet be literate and understand how to track from left to right.\u00a0 We suggest that great success will be met when the icon chart is presented through a computer-generated slideshow presentation or interactive whiteboard so that the teacher may point to each shape tracking for the students in tempo and rhythm.<\/p>\n Once the students master the melody using icons, they may continue with the Chroma-note\u00ae <\/sup>(colored note head) score. Older students may meet success by just having the location of the pitch on the staff on the note designation label which is standard on all brands of handchimes and may be able to move quickly to the handchime score which is in standard music notation.<\/p>\n Icon lesson plans may be found here<\/a> on the ChimeWorks website.\u00a0 By introducing these easy to teach lessons, your students will color their world with music through handchimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great start for any teacher would be to introduce music literacy to more students during this year.\u00a0 If you have handchimes at your disposal, teaching music reading with the help of colors couldn\u2019t be simpler! At ChimeWorks, we have developed tools for teaching young children to develop eye-hand coordination using colors and symbols and … Continue reading Music Literacy in a Snap with Colors and Handchimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3,8,12,27,28],"tags":[13,29,17,10,11,14,4,16,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.chimeworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2a47c8c53587f2ee1f635562215dc4ec.image_.400x266.jpg\")
ChimeWorks has developed Colored Bands which can be wrapped around the handchime tube so that each student can identify a pitch with a color.\u00a0 In the case of vision deficiency, the shape may also be drawn on to the band.\u00a0 These bands are available for Malmark, Inc. and be found by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 Colored bands can be an effective tool in the classroom when denoting pitches and chords.\u00a0 Using the ChimeWorks Icon Chart<\/a>, each pitch is assigned a color.\u00a0 By wrapping the appropriate colored band around the shaft of the handchime tube at the base, you can effectively indicate which handchimes are assigned to pitches or chords.<\/p>\n