First, strengthen the training of "bombs"
Many students know little about chords. When playing simple children's songs, they can only use a single accompaniment sound type, or only use the first-order main chord. So, how to cultivate students' ability to accompany children's songs?
1 Chord Matching Skills
When arranging children's songs, it should be emphasized that students should learn to arrange with positive triads as the main part. For short and simple songs, teachers should pay attention to whether students can react quickly and complete the correct connection of the main, subordinate and subordinate chords, and then consider adding auxiliary triads and heavy subordinate chords and playing them accurately, which requires students to master the methods of chord matching for children's songs.
(1) Solfeggio children's song score, determine the mode and tonality: Before configuring the song, be familiar with the whole song, determine the mode and tonality, and don't determine the chord according to the first sound of the first sentence, then look at the whole song.
(2) Match the chords according to the mode and tonality: first, determine the tonality of the chords, and then look at the sounds appearing on the strong beat, so as to determine the chords of the whole song.
(3) Distinguish between chords and overtones: In major and minor forms, overtones have a second degree relationship with the front and back chords, or at least one of them has a second degree relationship. Therefore, when choosing chords for songs, we should determine the chords according to the tendency of majority, strong beat and strong position sounds in the melody. Don't correspond every sound in the melody to your own chord, try to correspond the sounds contained in a chord to a chord.
(4) Reasonable arrangement of chord connection: Chord connection should avoid long-distance jumping in situ and follow the basic principle of harmonious connection nearby.
(5) Selective termination: termination can be divided into complete termination and semi-termination. Complete termination can be divided into positive termination (V-I), abnormal termination (IV-I) and complete termination (IV-V-I). These three termination methods all end on the main chord (I), which belongs to stable termination and can be used to end phrases, paragraphs or whole songs. Semi-termination can be divided into positive semi-termination (I-VIV) and variable semi-termination (I-IV). These two termination methods are unstable and can only be used at the end of phrases or paragraphs, not at the end of the whole song.
2 the choice of accompaniment sound type
The accompaniment sound types of children's songs can be divided into three categories: column-string sound type, half-broken and string sound type, full-broken and string sound type, and the corresponding accompaniment sound type can be selected according to the song type. The column-string sound pattern has firm, grand and rhythmic effects, such as children's songs "Toy March" and "I am a soldier". Half-broken chords have the effects of lively rhythm, enthusiasm and strong sense of rhythm, such as children's songs Wahaha and Little Pine Tree. All the rhymes of broken strings show soft and lyrical, smooth and coherent, quiet and soothing effects, such as children's songs "Little White Boat" and "Little Star".
Design of prelude, interlude and ending of children's songs
A complete song accompaniment, in addition to the arrangement and performance of the singing part, also needs the guidance of prelude, interlude transition and epilogue, in order to fully and accurately express the content and emotion of the song.
Prelude (1), also known as introduction, is a piece of music before a song is sung, and children's songs should generally have a prelude. The prelude of arrangement can be the prelude of accompaniment, or the last sentence of a piece of music or the last sentence of a paragraph as the prelude of the whole piece of music.
(2) Discontinuity, also called door, is the connecting part between paragraphs or phrases in a song, which plays the role of connecting the preceding with the following and gives the singer a short rest. The common method of arranging interlude for children's songs is to repeat a part of music in front of the song, or to reduce or increase the repetition by one octave or even two octaves in the sound area.
(3) Postscript, also called epilogue, is a supplement and perfection to the song.