The pre-conference Immersion Day on Wednesday, February 8, will focus on the sequential teaching of musical literacy. Clinicians John Armstrong and Kristin Zaryski will emphasize the development of tone and expressivity using singers from Dallas Center-Grimes (IA) High School. Participants will be signing, singing, and moving through the day as they are introduced to the practice of fundamental hand sign skills. The day is designed to show how to obtain beautiful tone along with music literacy skills, including the complete chromatic scale. Participants will be taken through the sequential learning cycle: In the air, on the board and from the page, and will learn how to connect inspiring visual, kinesthetic and auditory rapport with the signs and symbols of music reading. Pitch charts and pulse charts will be introduced, working from the known to the new in artistic ways.
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