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		<title>Rhythm Guessing Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I have been watching a little too much Sesame Street with my children&#8230; In this video, we play a rhythm &#8220;guessing game&#8221;, where a rhythm is spoken, and the student &#8220;guesses&#8221; where a certain rhythmic element is.&#160; It&#8217;s a listening exercise.&#160; Watch this video with your student or child&#8230; There are many applications for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The music of life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Music is everywhere.&#160; We hear it all the time, but finding it is the challenge.&#160; Music is defined by thefreedictionary.com as mu·sic ( n.) 1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. 2. Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rhythm Solfege verses Counting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is in answer to a question from Sarah from the post&#160;&#8220;rhythm blocks&#8221;.&#160; Sarah asks: &#8220;Do you think this (rhythm solfege) may be better than teaching them &#8216;semibreve has 4 counts. minim has 2 counts, etc and having them clap the counts?&#8221; My short answer, and this is only my opinion, is that it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of learning to talk before you can read</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today I read a forum post from a proponent of Simply Music.&#160; She talked about how hard and somewhat unnatural the current methods of piano teaching can be for the student.&#160; Yes, it is important to learn how to read music, but a young child who sits at the piano is less interested in learning [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Practice makes hard things easy&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can&#8217;t do it!&#8221;&#8220;It&#8217;s too hard.&#8221;&#8220;I don&#8217;t like this song.&#8221;&#8220;Are we done yet?&#8221; These words have been uttered in some form or another since the dawn of music.&#160; I have heard them!&#160; I remember uttering them.&#160; It happens, no matter how fantastic a teacher you are, or how talented and naturally motivated the child may [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The importance of ear training</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I was not introduced to aural skills through independent study until I was in college. I wanted better for my students, and have regularly included 2-5 minutes of aural training in my lessons with them. Here is an ear training manipulative that I created for my students.&#160; It is simply two large measures for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Practice time logs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamsyn Spackman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That which can be monitored can be improved. I have found in my teaching that when my students have been struggling with a song for a few weeks, we always come to the inevitable question: &#8220;How much have you been practicing?&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s what I thought.I am so grateful that my piano teacher consistently asked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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