This year, I’ve decided to make “Creativity at Christmas” my theme for this year’s Christmas recital. I have a whole list of creative projects that students will be encouraged to participate in and many of these will be shared at the recital. But, as I was brainstorming for this, I was reminded about how much fun it was when my kids did their Jingle Bells Variations a few years ago.
I found that this was a great way to introduce students to the theme and variations form as well as help them take what they were learning about alberti bass, seventh chords, ostinatos, etc. and apply them to their own creation (a great way to reinforce a concept!) Here’s the video along with a link to the previous post describing how we did this. You’ll notice that the students don’t play perfectly…that wasn’t the goal here. (It’s a long video, but feel free to skip around to get the idea.)
Read the Jingle Bells Variations post from a few years ago for details about how to do this project.
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