Cups are not just for beverages...

Cups are not just for beverages, they are valuable teaching tools here at music camp.

In Andy's music theory class they are being used to teach rhythm, beat, accents, and other concepts. Coordination of both the person and the timing to have everyone stay together on the beat is a difficult task at times.

We started out with a well known pattern that the majority of the class already knew. It was tougher than they expected because they knew how to do it quickly, but could not do it slowly. We would practice the pattern, then write it on a musical score, later we determined where the accents were and marked those as well.

Andy even came up with a new pattern so everyone could start learning from scratch.

Clap - Clap - Tap - Tap - Tap - Tap -Tap - Clap - pause - grab cup - cup to other hand - to table - to hand - to table -to hand and switch - over and down...