The reason why children can’t help but dance to the music is because music is an art of expressive expression. Children have the characteristics of being happy and showing their emotions. It is difficult for them to express their inner emotions and experiences in words. The strong emotional contrast and vivid emotional descriptions in the music express the inner world of children. Children's natural love and yearning for music send a signal to us parents: every child needs music, and every child accepts it. Musical wishes and demands. Therefore, music enlightenment education is particularly important in children's childhood.
Young parents may wish to try the following methods to cultivate their children’s music cells:
1. Teach your children how to listen
Music cannot be separated from sound. Sound is nothing like music. In nature, let your children learn to listen to the sounds of birds, frogs, raindrops, car horns, etc., and guide them to discover the differences in pitch, length, strength and weakness of sounds, and play the "knock, knock, listen" game with your children. , for example, in the kitchen, use chopsticks to first tap an aluminum pot, and then tap a glass, to see whose pitch is higher and whose pitch is lower. Frequently ask children to close their eyes and ask them what sounds they heard. Repeatedly in life and when the children are happy, train the children's hearing and accumulate rich auditory experience to make the children's hearing sensitive from an early age.
2. Teach children to learn to remember
When children become interested in the various sounds of objects, we should further ask the children to remember these sounds and convert the child's unconsciousness into consciousness. , so that children will be more attentive, concentrated, and purposeful in listening to various sounds. For example: let the children identify the sounds of family members talking, walking, knocking on the door, etc. Use a good-quality tape recorder to record the conversation of the whole family, and let the children find out whose voice it is and identify it. When you hear the footsteps of your family, ask your children to guess who is coming home? If you train your children to listen and remember sounds for a period of time, you will definitely find that your children have a keen sense and subtlety of various sounds. The ability to distinguish is far greater than that of adults. This may be the reason why some of us adults did not receive certain musical quality training in childhood and are still tone-deaf!
The first note of the child. Children prefer to express their moods, wishes and ideals through their singing. Imitation is the biggest characteristic of children. We should seize this characteristic of children and prepare various songs, music, and world famous songs for them to enjoy or learn to sing. Parents are reminded not to use poor speakers. Out-of-tune music will only bore their children and kill their initial love for music. Parents are their children's unselectable first teachers. Therefore, parents must improve their musical accomplishments and teach their children to pronounce accurately, enunciate clearly, and have a strong sense of rhythm when singing. Parents who think they have no musical ability can use tape recorders, VCDs and other equipment to let their children start by learning to sing short children's songs, guide them to listen more, practice more, and sing more, and further consolidate their children's audio-visual, rhythm and music skills during singing. memory.
3. Teach children how to shoot
The shooting referred to here is preliminary rhythm training for children. In fact, many instinctive movements of children are also very rhythmic, from babbling to toddling, from crying to talking and laughing, which contain many rhythmic alternations of speed, strength, and weakness. Clapping is an action that children often repeat, and it is also an action for children to express their inner joy. We can start with clapping and play clapping games with children to train their sense of rhythm. Many music-loving adults still remember the game "please do it like me, I'll do it like you" played in their childhood. In fact, this is also a kind of rhythm training. Orff's children's music education system created by Orff, the famous German music educator, fully highlights the key points of rhythm first and the combination of music and movement. It emphasizes that rhythm is the life of music and the source of music vitality. It encourages children to practice reciting, Cultivate children's sensitivity to rhythm through activities such as clapping their hands, slapping their legs, and stamping their feet.
4. Teach children how to sing
When a child is born, he sings the first note of his life. Children prefer to express their moods, wishes and ideals through their singing. Imitation is the biggest characteristic of children. We should seize this characteristic of children and prepare various songs, music, and world famous songs for them to enjoy or learn to sing. Parents are reminded not to use poor speakers. Out-of-tune music will only bore their children and kill their initial love for music. Parents are their children's unselectable first teachers. Therefore, parents must improve their musical accomplishments and teach their children to pronounce accurately, enunciate clearly, and have a strong sense of rhythm when singing. Parents who think they have no musical ability can use tape recorders, VCDs and other equipment to let their children start by learning to sing short children's songs, guide them to listen more, practice more, and sing more, and further consolidate their children's audio-visual, rhythm and music skills during singing. memory.
5. Teach children to learn to move
Children like to "twist their necks and twist their butts" under the influence of music.
When I was teaching 2 or 3-year-old children to sing: "Clap your little hands, clap your little hands, fingers out, fingers out, where is the nose? Nose is here, use your fingers to come out, use your fingers to come out", I didn't I taught them half a movement, because my hands were playing the piano, but the children sang along with the music, clapped their hands, stretched out their fingers, and pointed to their noses. It was so cute that they knew how to do it without being taught. It can be seen that children naturally like to perform movements to songs and music. We adults should give more encouragement and praise to children, give children a stage to fully express themselves, let children express themselves to their heart's content, express their inner emotions, and on this basis, gradually help children Coordinate movements of limbs. In daily life, create and compose small rhythms and dances with your children. When relatives and friends come to your home as guests, give your children a chance to perform and let them enjoy the joy that music brings to themselves and everyone amidst the applause.
Children who love music have far better abilities in thinking, observation, memory, imagination and other aspects than ordinary children. Moreover, music can make children cheerful, emotional, loving and rich in life. Fantasy and consciousness are advanced, the charm of music is really too great, and there are many ways to cultivate children's musical cells. Parents can flexibly develop a set of training methods that are most suitable for your children according to their children's age characteristics and needs and local conditions. I believe When your child forms an indissoluble bond with music, it means that your child has received the most precious wealth you have left for him, allowing him to enjoy and be happy throughout his life.
Let our children grow up healthily in music!