It's back to school time! Yay! I am so happy to see all of you again! I am looking forward to a fun school year with you! Here's what's up so far! Grades 4 & 5 (Rooms 13, 17 & 19) are starting the year with the song "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye. We began by watching a cover of the song by the group Walk of the Earth, where each member plays one part on the guitar. From left to right: Player 1: Uses the guitar as a percussion instrument Player 2: Plays the ostinato (a repeating pattern) which is actually just IIV to I chords Player 3: Plays the guitar melody Player 4: Plays the off-beat chords (on beats 2 & 4) Player 5: Plays accent chords Then we watched another version of the song: Gotye saw that so many people were doing covers of his song that he made a compilation video of a whole bunch of YouTube videos from around the world! Next week we will be learning to play this song on the Orff Instruments: From: http://musescore.com/user/24296/scores/49627 Grades 1/2/3 are learning the Tritsch Tratsch Polka by Johann Strauss. We have coupled it with Deborah Ziolkoski's story and movement about the ringmaster and tightrope walker from Fun With Composers. We are learning about ABA form in music (same/different/same), and a little bit about the life of composer Johann Strauss. Here is a recording of it - ask your child to show you the story and movement! Did you know that the Tritsch Tratsch Polka is also used in the video game Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games? It can be found in the Synchronized Swimming section! Pretty cool, huh?
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Aside from an appreciation for music, I have no other knowledge of it or possess any talent myself. My son's music teacher’s “tee tee tah” lesson on music notes had my son trying to teach me, though. His curiosity became mine too. To help him learn the names of the music notes and practice some math, I designed this fun activity. Download the music measure mat, cheat sheet, and notes/rests cards here. The objective? See how many different combinations of notes can be used to create a measure of music with a 4/4 time signature. I made some “note” cards and a cheat sheet that showed all the notes and rests and the number of beats each has. After cutting the cards and taping together the music measure mat, my son sorted the cards into piles. Then I told him that the top number in the time signature (4/4) told us that each measure of music should have four beats. Each note does not have 1 beat, some have as little as a half beat, others as much as 4 beats. I told him to fill the measure with notes and rests that added to four beats. He started with the easiest combinations: 1 whole note and then four quarter notes. But they got progressively harder. I had to explain that two half beats equal one beat (I used an apple cut in half to show how two halves equal one whole). Then, the fun really began – using the eighth notes and eighth rests! More and more cards were laid down. This was a great way to boost my son’s music vocabulary and work on counting, addition, and fractions. We made LOTS of different combinations of notes and rests that added to four beats. I lost count after he created 13 measures!
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Music learning involves active engagement and discipline, resulting in far-teaching benefits to the brain that may include: Improve reading skills Better vocabulary Stronger neural activation in native language 90% of preschool children studied showed increase verbal intelligence after just 20 days of musical training! This infographic takes a look at the various positive impacts that […]
Newly-discovered acetate recordings of one of the first computers in the world playing music may cause the history of videogame music to be revised. A Ferranti Mark 1 computer in Manchester, England was recorded churning out three songs for a bemused audience in 1951 — six years before the Bell Labs recording that was previously […]
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Are you looking for a way to motivate your band students and get every student to contribute equally to a goal? Read this classic folktale to your band and then share the application at the end.
Introducing Do Re Mi to kids in a visual, fun way to help them understand the notes of the scale and piano. First musical theory lesson for babies and young kids.
Let’s face it. We all know what happens in a room filled with barred instruments: kids want to play them! And of course, note-reading is not nearly as much fun as sliding up and down the bars with mallets. In the language of music, these slides are known as “glissandos.” And all children LOVE to play them. The “Glissando Song” gives your children permission to play glissandos as part of a humorous little song-story about Gracie Gordon. As a direct result, your students will come to understand the complicated concept of “up,” and “down” on the barred instruments they play. (With just one mallet, even your first graders will be able to perform the song!) The zip file contains a word sheet (for purposes of projecting and/or reading) as well as a lead sheet. Also included is a full piano accompaniment, an instructional Orff arrangement, and an mp3 recording of the song itself (without words.) *Thanks so much for stopping by our store. Please consider giving us a rating if you find our original compositions valuable to you and to the children you teach. Marlypeg Music grants permission for those who purchase our materials to reproduce our songs and mp3s only for the children that they teach. We would also ask that they be used solely in a classroom or performance setting. As our songs are copyrighted, we trust that you will respect the time and effort we have put into creating them, by honoring our request. Thank you. *If you find that your mp3 download won’t play, just pull it onto your desktop and try opening it from there.
Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Piano Teacher’s Guide to Creative CompositionAuthor: Klose, CarolPublisher: Hal Leonard CorpPublication Date: 2011/09/01Number of Pages: 79Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:
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It seems that I have gone Boomwhackers crazy! And it also seems as if I'm arranging all my classroom tunes for instruments! I figured, why order music for the Boomwhackers when I can write it exactly the way I want it. So here's what I came up with... an arrangement of Jingle Bells! I included page two if anyone is interested in using this. (By the way, I have 5 more tunes to write out just like this.) And let me just say, this was all created using Powerpoint! Who knew!? I drew the rests with the pencil tool and grouped the circle and line shapes for the notes. The best part is when I'm ready to use this, I just start the slideshow and project it onto my board (until my smart board comes, that is). Boomwhackers have me so excited for 3rd grade!!!! Update: Here is my newest arrangement of Jolly Old St. Nick
