Phipps Guitar Workshops Part 6 Command Cubes for pima

At www.hopscotchguitar.com I have been exploring game formats to develop active learning in the group guitar tuition context.

This segment shows what I call a Command Cube. Like a dice they have six faces but the instructions may be varied to suit the teacher's specific learning intention or the learners educational needs. In this case the student need to learn p, i, m a.
Again control is handed over to the student as much as possible, and probability means that there is enough variety in the activity while consolidation of the new skill, concept etc occurs.
The command cube in this instance in also combined with dice. The children are also using helping hands positioned on the back of their guitars; "turn your guitar into a table" that will feature in the Kirkhill Workshop next week.
Your comments are appreciated as is serious educational debate about the validity of these games as educational tools.

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[sorfingers1965]

Hi

Your comments are appreciated and if you would like to share some of your activities, I'd be delighted. The learning intention of this activity is for the children to centre the plucking hand on the correct strings and learn the open string names. Thank you for beginning the debate and please feel free to challenge these ideas further. Regards, Aidy.

[aurynia]

This is in a different direction, but one thing I found worked with this type of group is to learn simple rounds. Initially they all play in unison, then, when they get good at it, the play 2 voices, then 3, etc. Thomas Ravenscroft has some nice little rounds. Start with "Lady come downe", then follow up, in increasing complexity, with "I am a-thirst", "Go to Ioane Glouer", and "Go no more to Brainford". Just don't tell the kids the lyrics.

I appear not to be able to post the web link.

[aurynia]

Hello Aidy,

I don't know, I have mixed feelings about this approach. I taught a group class for a couple of years, of somewhat older kids. Like you, I found it very helpful to experiment with all kinds of new ideas. Clearly you have hit some nuggets in that you have the kids excited and engaged. I would like though to see more emphasis on music, and less on the game.