Learning Sequence Activities should be the core of every curriculum that teaches music fundamentals, instrumental or choral, elementary school or college.

Simply put, these activities are a research-based, carefully sequenced way to teach the basics and to teach toward the individual differences of your students. They take up no more than five or ten minutes at the beginning of a class period.

Designed by Edwin E. Gordon, the activities broaden the tonal and rhythm vocabularies of students...