Music class is a key course for cultivating students’ sentiments and a key component for developing students’ multi-faceted growth. So what are the teaching methods for music class?

Music class Teaching methods

1. Experiential music teaching methods

Focus on music experience and cultivate students by stimulating students' interest in music learning, feeling and appreciating the beauty of music, and externalizing emotional experiences. Musical aesthetic taste and aesthetic ability.

　(1) Music Appreciation Method

Focusing on appreciation activities, it means that teachers use musical works to listen, associate, imagine, imitate, analyze, compare, etc. to stimulate students during the teaching process. Consciously learn and promote a strong interest in music learning and a desire for knowledge.

　(2) Demonstration method

Teachers use practical sound, demonstration, intuition and other methods in class to allow students to acquire perceptual knowledge and deepen their learning content.

(3) Visiting method

2. Practical music teaching method

Focusing on music practice activities, students participate in various activities under the guidance of teachers. A music practice activity, a method to form and improve musical skills and develop musical performance abilities.

(1) Practice method

A method of applying knowledge to practice, transforming knowledge into skills, techniques and developing musical performance abilities.

(2)Rhythm teaching method

It is the human body making various regular and coordinated movements in accordance with the music.

(3) Creative teaching method

A teaching method aimed at cultivating students’ musical creative thinking, creative spirit and practical ability. Including improvisation, performance creation, etc.

(4) Game teaching method

3. Linguistic music teaching method

Mainly based on language transmission, through the oral language of teachers and students and independent reading by students Written language-based music teaching methods.

(1) Teaching method

Teachers use concise and vivid oral language activities and students’ independent reading of written language as the main teaching method. Including telling, reading, explaining, giving lectures, etc.

(2) Conversation method

A method in which teachers and students teach through oral language questions and answers. Includes inspirational, question-and-answer, and coaching conversations.

(3) Discussion method

Under the guidance of teachers, students study as a whole class or in small groups through discussion or debate around the central issue of the textbook.

4. Inquiry-based music teaching methods

Focus on exploration and discovery, and stimulate students' learning motivation through creating scenarios, observing, analyzing, synthesizing, comparing, collecting, communicating, etc. Guide students to learn from multiple perspectives and draw conclusions.

Discovery method (research-based learning):

Under the guidance of teachers, students conduct independent exploration through observation, experiment, thinking, discussion, information review, etc., discover and master the corresponding knowledge on their own A teaching method of knowledge and skills.

Music education aims to cultivate students' perception and performance ability of music, improve students' musical literacy, enlighten wisdom, cultivate sentiment, and enable their physical and mental development to be healthy. “Interest is the basic motivation for learning music and the prerequisite for students to maintain close contact with music and use music to beautify and enrich their lives.” Therefore, how to improve students' interest in learning music and how to make students learn happily has become the first problem that teachers need to solve.

How to cultivate students’ interest in learning music

1. Establish a harmonious teacher-student relationship, create a pleasant learning atmosphere, and make students like music

In music appreciation teaching , students have various understandings, ideas and questions about the work, and the teacher uses an encouraging and supportive attitude to mobilize all students to discuss together and solve them cooperatively. Teachers put aside their majestic appearance to talk to students, understand their needs, and give each student the opportunity to fully express their emotions so that they are willing to speak freely.

Art appreciation is also an aesthetic process, which should give students a sense of visual harmony and beauty. Teachers should be dressed appropriately and elegantly; teach in a natural manner and demonstrate aesthetics; they should carry out "smile teaching", etc. In short, make students like you as much as possible. This creates a friendly, relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere between teachers and students. Educator Dewey once said: The teaching process should be made into a "real process of simultaneous participation of teachers and students, a mutual process of truly happy cooperation."

2. Create a classroom situation, experience pleasant teaching, and let students integrate into music

Due to the influence of social environment and other comprehensive factors, most students are keen on pop music, and star chasing is not uncommon, and for Peking Opera, a traditional art with a long history, is poorly understood and even feels strange and distant. For example: In the section of Peking Opera Appreciation "Watching the King Sleeping in His Clothes in the Tent", I posted several stills in the classroom before class to create a theater atmosphere in the classroom. I also asked some students to "walk in" to the rhythm of gongs and drums. Although the movements are simple, students' interest is very high and the classroom atmosphere is active. Unknowingly, the students learned relevant knowledge while having a happy experience. Another example: When appreciating the section "African Song and Dance Music", in order to let students further understand the African drum and its rhythm, and the characteristics of African music, I asked the students to dance to the sound of "Drumming", and the students improvised "Drumming" Solitaire". Students improvise the rhythm of one phrase, and the students behind them take over to knock out the rhythm of the next phrase, and inspire students that expressive and unique African music rhythms can be moved by clapping, stamping feet, and percussion instruments. Structure is reflected and emphasized. This design allows students to enjoy the joy of expression and experience the pleasure brought by music.

In short, students’ interest in learning is not innate, it can be guided and stimulated. In a music class, if teachers can scientifically and fully use various teaching methods to achieve enjoyable teaching and easy learning, students will be able to fly freely in the vast musical sky, and our music class will definitely become the sacred place they are fascinated by. palace.