Children Worship Workshop 爱神青颂敬拜事工 Introducing Colored Handbells to Young Ringers It is beautiful to see a group of young children making their own music, using Colored Handbells ring and sing to worship God. If you want to introduce music to young children, Colored Handbell is a good start. Katherine Leung Ringing without using Melody Cards: Assign one bell to each ringer while they are standing in a straight line, then the conductor stand in front of them, point to the ringer when it is their turn to ring. Not much pracce is needed for this teaching method. Ringing with the help of Melody Cards: When playing the melody of a song with the help of Melody Card, aſter explaining the basic technique of ringing the bells, you’ll be ready to try your first song. (Al- ways remind the ringers not to touch the clapper inside the bell. Kids love to touch and play with that, and they will easily break it by accident. I always tell my ring- ers at the very beginning of the class, if Ringing Melody I love the look of delight in the children’s eyes when they have successfully played through the song with their bells. Colored Handbells Sets are effecve yet inexpensive way to get children involved with music. The Handbells are great for young children who are sll in their developmental stages. The handle is easily held by smaller hands and are designed to ring easily with minimal effort. The Deskbells are great for the very young (3 and up) and people with special needs. They are played by simply pressing a buon on top of the bell. Both handbells and deskbells are color-coded. They are great tools to promote group parcipaon. They can be purchased in many music stores, high-end toy stores or online. The bells are in different color for each note, making it easy for young ringers to know what bell to play and when to play it. Start with a basic 8-Note sets, from C –C’. Chromac Add-on sets (these add the sharps/ flats to the 8 Note set- C#, D#, F#, G#, A#), and Expanded Range Add-on sets (these add the 3 notes below and the 4 notes above the previous 2 sets- Low A, A#, B and High C#, D# and E). Each bell is marked with the proper note name and number, helping to teach musical notes and scale. Sharps and flats have black handles or buons, just like the black keys on a piano. When assigning bells, it is best to assign one bell to each ringer. If necessary, you may assign each ringer two consecuve bells, such as giving Ringer one C and D, Ringer two E and F, Ringer three G and A, and so on. (This works well when you have either the expanded range sets or several of the 8-Note sets). It is beer to use the 8-Note or mul- ple 8-Note sets with younger children and moving up into the add-on sets with upper elementary school aged children. It will be easier for the ringers to learn to ring the song when they are familiar with the song, no maer when they are ringing the melody or chords of the song. We should first teach the ringers to sing the song or let them listen to it with a recorded sample. Most of the books comes with a sample CD with pracce and performance tempo. Kindergartener or even pre-schoolers will have fun playing the melody of a Hymn tune or nursery song that they knows. they play the clapper of the bell with their fingers, they will have to sit out and watch the other ringers ring.) To prepare a song using Melody Cards, find the card which matches the first note of the song, and place it face down in a flat surface. Connue to find the used notes of the song in a similar paern placing the matching cards face down on top of the previous card. Aſter you’ve prepared the last note of the song, pick up your stack of cards and place your cover card in the front as a way of preparing to begin a song. Once you prepared the song, you can now hand out the bells to the ringers. Depending on the number of Bells Set you have, the number of ringers you have and the notes used in the parcular song, you may want two or more bell ringers for each note. To direct with the Melody Card, hold the stack of cards with the front facing your ringers. As the music goes, move the pre- vious card to the back of the stack of cards Ringing Chords Ringing without using Chord Cards: For Upper Elementary Students, we can teach them Harmony while playing bells. Teach them I, IV and V chords, e.g. in the key of C Major, ringers with the notes C, E, G including the High C will have to ring for I chord, F, A, C for IV chord and G, B and D for V Chord. When conducng the ringers to ring the chords, use your fingers to in- dicate the chords, I chord with one finger, IV chord with four fingers, V chord with 5 fingers. Write on the Board the notes for each chord to help ringers remember when they have to ring. They can learn songs of different keys with the different sets of I, IV and V Chords. There are a lot of songs that you can just use I, IV and V chords to harmonise the song. Ringing with the help of Chord Cards: When playing the chords using Chord Chart, first ask your ringers to check the number and color of their bells. Ask them to shake their bells when the color of their bells is displayed. Stop shaking when their bells are no longer displayed. When playing the chord of the music, first you’ll need to find out the chords you’ll need for that song. Then make a list of all the chords used. Once you finished the list, pull out one color-coded card for each of the chords. Next, you’ll have to find out the individual bells that make up the chords of this song, you’ll also need to make a list of all the bells used for this song. Now you have to put the Chord Cards to the Chord Card Holder. You can place it into the holder based on how frequently it is heard, with the most common chord at the top, or you may place the chords in the order when they first appears. If you don’t have a card holder, put the Chord Cards on the Music Stand. 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