G'DAE Complete Lesson Set
includes music book, games and accessories to make learning to play the
violin FUN!
"I AM IN LOVE WITH THESE
MATERIALS! I'm recommending them to all my
fellow violin teachers. I've been trying to
teach my own 3 yr. old daughter, and it was
turning into a power struggle until I introduced
the
G'DAE stuff. You guys have really created a
fabulous tool here for teaching little ones. "The
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how effective they are." ~ L. Park, Utah
"I bought the
starter packet and my daughter loves it. The
best thing was the animal colors and the associations to
the strings that really clicked for her. She has blazed
through the exercises on her own and even wrote her own
song! Is there any chance you have or you're working on
a book for the next level?"
~L. Pressly, Colorado
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Introducing... A New Resource for Teaching the Violin to
Preschool-Age Students --
G'DAE
Primary Book for Violin™
with
G'DAE
Teaching Tools™:
An innovative approach that provides
A
Colorful
Beginning!
To Read or Not To Read (Music, that is)? The preschool and early school years are an ideal time
to begin musical training. But for pre-readers, learning an instrument
also requires developing a new cognitive skill: reading music. Some early
childhood instrumental programs overcome this hurdle by teaching
students to play by ear. Eventually music reading skills become
necessary, and many students taught this way become so good at playing
by ear that they find it difficult to learn to read music later.
Begin with Color... Over the past 25 years, a color-coding
approach to early-childhood
music-reading readiness has become popular in Europe. Colors relate the
notes of familiar songs to their location on the stringed instrument and
to symbols on the printed page. This method is not available or widely
known in the U.S., possibly because the lesson materials are culturally
geared to Europeans, have additional solfège pedagogy demands, and do not start
with the music most familiar to American preschoolers.
A Bridge to Music Reading... To adapt this proven teaching method for
American preschool and early-elementary violin students, G’DAE!™
beginners’ lesson materials for the violin create
a bridge to music reading for pre-readers. G’DAE!™
materials associate colors, names and characters with each string on the
violin. Simple and familiar tunes are printed with colored notes and finger numbers
taking the place of the musical staff. The rhythmic meaning of note shapes
is learned from the start via colorful flashcards, games and exercises.
Gradually, the notes are moved onto the staff, which is also
color-coded at
first, and finger numbers are removed. As the student starts to understand
how to identify notes by their position on the staff, they are ready to
“graduate” to an elementary-level violin method book. G’DAE!™materials thus serve as a launching pad for pre-readers into
standard method books,
not a self-contained continuous method
with its own unique teaching philosophy on an exclusive learning track.
