Successfully Introducing New Songs to your Middle School Beginning Choirs

Some of the most common things I see posted on social media in I Teach Middle School! Facebook page are-

1). How do you introduce new music?

2). Why can't they follow an octavo? (Because we haven't taught it!)

3). Why can't they hold their parts? (Because we didn't teach carefully...habits are hard to break).

In this new product, I share an unlisted video I made just for this in which I take you through step by step, day by day how I introduced and taught a song to my beginners. It's me sitting at the piano in my living room talking you through the process.

I also give you some rehearsal techniques to use that allow you to give them the repetition they need to get the parts ingrained and to avoid having your altos sing soprano or having the baritones sing the soprano part one octave down. I share some reasons why students struggle at certain moments in the song with pitches...things you may not have thought about.