Do you remember at the beginning of the year when we did the 5 minute time challenge to establish a baseline on how fast you could read notes off the staff? Want to check and see if you've increased your speed?
First, review and practice reading notes off the staff by watching this video and playing some of the music play games Notes on staff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bv-JiFnoJ4 Notes on Ledger Lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBOcp1Ild7c Games to practice https://www.classicsforkids.com/games/note_names.php https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/notation/name-that-note Now, print off this sheet, set a timer (or use the one above) for 5 minutes and see how many you can do. Let me know when you are done by emailing me [email protected] and I'll send you what your score was in September! !!!!GAMES TO PLAY OVER THE SUMMER!!! Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra https://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/ Chrome Music Lab https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ Whack a Note http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/interactives/steprightup/whackanote/ Music Escape Room https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BntUyV9KK9sD_-51yIfUKQPTfHjE12jTW4E60hjB7oI/present?slide=id.g8286e5989c_1_277 Well, I think we will try something a little different this week. It doesn’t look like there has been much interest in the Breezin’ Thru Theory Website. SO, This week let’s do some practice reading notes off the staff and learn the song that everyone at school is learning for year end. It’s a version of Dynamite! First, Print off the work sheet below to practice reading notes off the staff or look at the worksheet on line and write your answers on a separate paper. Don’t forget FACE on the space and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for the lines, always bottom to top. WORKSHEET Next, Email your answer to me at [email protected] so I can check them. Finally, learn the year end song. Click HERE for lyrics and music. Click HERE for Dance and music. Click HERE for a short tutorial on the little dance section Have fun! We are continuing to learn about theory this week. Please click HERE for the instructions. You might also have some fun learning the pattern for the Tik Tok Hand Clapping Challenge. See how fast you can get going! We're going to be using this website for the month of June so I would like everyone to follow the direction on the document to get an account set up. It is free for now and if you submit your results on the website, I'll be able to keep track of your progress.
The website takes a bit of getting used to but once you know how to use it there are lots of things to do and you can do as much as you like! As a minimum, I would like you to do the assigned lessons that are on the following document. Have fun! To learn how to get set up on the website click HERE For link to the website click HERE As you know, a composer is someone who writes music. There have been many, many brilliant composers over the past 2000 years. Some you will recognize, like Mozart and Beethoven, and some you may never have heard of, like Cage or Bernstein. This week you get to explore composers. Here's how:
1. Pick any year between 1600 and 2020. Go to the website below and type that year in along the bottom white bar, click enter and the time machine will take you there. 2. Click on the composer that was living around that time and listen to some of their music. Keep a record of what you like about their music and what you dislike. 3. Pick another year and do the same as above. 4. Compare at least 3 composers. Who do you like best? Send me the names of the composers you listened to and what you thought about their work. CREATE
Create an instrument using your own imagination and what you know about sound or make a xylophone, an egg shaker, tambourine or a guitar with a little help from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Sound Discoveries https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/education-and-community/school-programs/sound-discoveries/ LISTEN AND RESPOND Have someone in your house choose a piece of music for you or choose something from the list below. Write about what you hear, how it makes you feel, what story the music tells (if any), and connect it to an experience you have had or another piece of music you have heard. INSTRUMENTS Play “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” game linked on the music page OR write about and draw as many musical instruments as you know. Indicate whether you have seen them live before and whether you have ever played them before. MUSIC MATH Print and complete some of the these music math sheets that. Can you make up your own math questions using music notes? https://musicplayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/_pda/2020/04/Music-Math-spring-set-1-11.pdf https://musicplayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/_pda/2020/04/Music-Math-spring-2.pdf https://musicplayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/_pda/2020/04/Music-Math-spring-4.pdf DANCE Choreograph (make up) a dance to your favourite song OR learn this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sxifR0Ltqk&t=54s PLAY ALONG Listen to your favourite song or choose a piece from the listening list below. Write a different rhythmic pattern to play in each different section of the music. Grab something to tap, hit, or bang and play along with the rhythms you have created. Listening Suggestions. Feel free to choose something of your own. Don’t watch the videos until after you have listened to the music Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-TS-BitnQ Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake https://youtu.be/Xd2nTXsivHs Strauss’ Blue Danube https://youtu.be/IDaJ7rFg66A Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik https://youtu.be/nPbxIT9W1AY Bernstien’s The Great Escape https://youtu.be/eeOoh2i7VCw Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA Vivaldi’s Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAOGduIFbg
Get creative! Check out this week's off line activity and make your own water xylophone. You can practice different tempos and playing in different metres.
Or check out this guy. He takes playing music on glasses to a whole new level! Water Xylophone |