Category: Intermediate Blog
Good morning recorder students! Here is another recorder tutorial for you. This one is for the song “Morning” , which is your RED belt. Enjoy!
Hi students! A couple of weeks back I interviewed my Dad about his recorder collection – if you haven’t watched the interview already, you should! It’s here on my blog. While he was sampling the different recorders he played a song called the “Skye Boat Song”, and I mentioned that I would post the music for my recorder students. I also made a video of myself singing and playing the song. I had a little fun trying out a new app called “Acapella”. The link to the video is below the picture!
/https://mixcord.co/acapella/p/eGnXleWFrbxi7miLjufIvg/
I recorded this in my study at home, no microphone or editing done so it’s a bit rough, but I thought it would be fun to share with you and encourage you to try! The words to the song appear in the bottom of the screen as I sing it. I have also made a Muse Score file with the notes for recorder, the words for singing, and the chords for playing Ukulele (or guitar). The blue/green words are link to a PDF, and I’ve included a screenshot below.
HI students! Please watch this video for a tutorial on how to play Bouffons for your orange belt 🙂
Hi everyone:) Watch the video assigned to your class for instructions on how to your first assignment, the Music Happiness Project for all Intermediate classes.
I will upload your class’ individual playlist in your Team.
I’ll get us started with my Happy Song, which I’ve included in all the playlists.
https://safeYouTube.net/w/Al66
This song is called “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)”, and it is by a group called the Four Seasons. This song came out in 1975, and was considered an “oldie” when I heard it. The first time I heard this song I was at Helen’s Grill, which is a diner style restaurant, kind of a 60’s theme, with little juke boxes at the end of each table. Maybe you don’t know what a juke box is? They are music players that you would put a quarter in and they would play songs for you. There were little books you could flip through by using a toggle on top of the machine – very cool, check them out if you have a chance. Anyway, of course juke boxes are a thing of the past so to see one is very rare. I was out to breakfast with my boyfriend, and we were fairly newly met at the time. He put a quarter in and played this song for me, and I have loved it ever since! It certainly takes me back to those days, but there is also something so joyful about this song that I can’t quite put my finger on. I really love the vocalist, and always sing along with him especially the two lines ” late December 1963″, and “you know I didn’t even know her name”. Something about the melody here really gets to me. Actually, I like to sing along with the whole song! When we are having one of those Friday nights where we take turns playing each other favourite songs on youtube and dancing in the living room, this is always on my playlist, sometimes even twice! There is also a French version of this song called “Cette année-là“. I hope you enjoy it, and enjoyed sharing my memory 🙂
Hi Everyone,
Please check out this tutorial on the Purple belt song, “Ho Ho Watanay”.
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
Hey grade 5/6 students!
I hope you are doing well in these strange times! I miss you all very much. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have access to our Garage Band assignments that we have been working so hard on – I was so looking forward to our sharing of our final projects once the iMovie films were done. I am thinking of ways to continue with the project in a similar vein and will be sending out a Form asking about what type of devices students have etc., but for now check out the CHROME MUSIC LAB that I have posted above . It’s web based program and pretty intuitive.
I had to watch this short youtube video to understand the basics of how chrome music lab works. I found the video to be pretty entertaining whether or not you’re a Billie Eillish fan! For now, watch the video, and then check out the CHROME MUSIC LAB link.