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Partition jingle bells guitare1/1/2024 ![]() I wish you could be there to see these kids get excited about “hand motions” (see previous lesson). Every week, I take this 45-minute opportunity to tap into the part of myself that is the teacher, the drill sergeant, the musician, the comedian, the uncle, the brother, the spiritual advisor and the kid. I’ve been doing this kind of work for almost 20 years, so I feel very confident standing in front of 120 third graders with harmonicas in their hands, but I enjoy learning something new every time. My favorite class is at 1:00 pm when I am teaching the entire 3rd grade to play the harmonica. ![]() Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council’s TeachArtsOhio program, I am spending every Friday as an “artist-in-residence” at Bucyrus Elementary School in Bucyrus, Ohio. Would you be willing to give it a try? I’d love your feedback. But to be honest, most kids are not willing to follow through completely with the five steps of learning a song. I’ve had thousands of short-term students in elementary schools around Ohio. Is it just a cool theory or is it a highly effective system for learning to play? That’s what I want to know. Unfortunately, I have not had a large enough quantity of “method testers” to confirm whether or not it actually works. In this blog, we release the first 3 steps.įor the last 20 years, I’ve been developing a unique system of harmonica instruction. Being the guy that I am, I turned that short video into a 5-part instructional series called “The Five Steps to Jingle Bells.” This free (Youtube) series very simply lays out the Hal Walker method of learning a song. The new version of Breizh Partitions is online! More sheet music, more instruments, and a more intuitive categorization.JP Allen at invited me to create a short video to teach the holiday favorite, Jingle Bells. ![]() 新年快樂!Ī new section of sheet music for the Irish harp (clàrsach) is open. If you want to upload your own sheet music (composed or arranged by you) on this website, this is now possible! Just contact me, and mention the title and instrument of the sheet music.įor Chinese New Year, a new sheet music of the Dance of the Golden Snake is available. Today is Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant! (St David’s Day, patron saint of Wales) It’s time to download some Welsh sheet music. Happy Saint Patrick’s day on Breizh Partitions! Check the latest free sheet music from Ireland. We hope that this Web site will be useful by all musicians, so as to spear traditional music from all over the world.įor Christmas, don’t forget to downlaod some Whenever possible, we also try to offer either midi files, or mp3 associated with the scores, played by musicians when such records exist. Some more modern scores (such as film original soundtrack or classical music) are also available on the Web site.įollowing a spirit close to that of the free software community, Breizh Partitions tries whenever possible to also give the source of the sheet music (that is the file used to engrave the score, using a dedicated music software such as LilyPond), and to give it under a license allowing modification and diffusion of the sheet music… all free of charge.
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