Motivating Students to Practice Scales…
Scales… Ugh! Who loves to learn to play scales? Arguably scales are very helpful to learn skills, pass exams, play faster, etc.
Motivating students to practice – using scale sticks for random choice has helped my students want to practice their scales.
You’ll no doubt agree that it is better to motivate students to practice their scales rather than berate them for not practicing them…
My earlier blog post ‘Scales Made Easier‘ helps my students to learn scale patterns. However, I have added a fun element to provide a way of preparing students for the randomness of needing to play scales out of order, to sharpen their mind.
Introducing wooden sticks has helped students to practice scales in a more fun way (which scale am I playing next, left/right/together etc?). I also use several dice with ‘left hand’, ‘right hand’, ‘hands together’ or ‘hands together with eyes closed’, 1 finger, together contrary motion, etc., for scales or arpeggios. Students pick a stick and roll the dice (for scale, broken chord or arpeggio, depending on what stick they picked).
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