Easy, Inexpensive DIY Piano Teaching Tool for Rhythm 🎶

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Ultimate Christmas Fake Book (Hal Leonard): https://amzn.to/4fitcMg
Tim Topham’s Easy Christmas Lead Sheets to Inspire Creativity (TopMusic): https://topmusic.co/downloads/easy-ch...
20 Favorite Christmas Songs: How to Play Lead Sheets (Susan Staples Bell): https://www.susanstaplesbellmusic.com...

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0:00 Introduction
0:53 What is Proactive Pedagogy?
1:16 Why rhythm is important
1:49 Teaching lead sheets
6:07 Introducing a new rhythmic skill
6:48 Using London Bridge is Falling Down
7:54 Christmas carols with the dotted quarter note rhythm
8:20 Process for using DIY rhythm cards
10:53 Proactive Pedagogy vs. Reactive Pedagogy
11:27 Examples of topics requiring proactive pedagogy