Hi music class!

 

I hope you've been able to practice instruments and sing songs these last few weeks while you've been at home.

 

For the last days leading up to summer, I want you to make sure all your work is turned in and that you're on your way to completing the end of year assignment.  Due Friday, May 29th

 

Let me know if you have any questions of concerns!

End of Year Assignment:

Check Class Notebook and make sure you've completed all the assignments for the quarter.

 

For your final assignment, you have the choice of recording 2 songs or doing a research paper.  Check under the "homework" tab for the details and please email me with any questions.

Sign up for a Zoom conference with the specials team.

 

 

Email me if you have any questions!

Check your "homework" tab for the new Music History assignment.  Watch the video and answer the questions.

 

Be prepared to play or sing! Starting next week and continuing to the end of the school year, I would like you to perform a "concert" of your favorite two songs. 

 

This assignment will be similar to last time when you had a choice between writing a paper or recording yourself playing or singing.  Be thinking of what songs you would want to perform if we had a concert and you wanted to showcase your best effort.

 

Those of you who wish to not perform, your option will be a research paper on the history of an instrument (your choice, but you MUST run it by me first).

 

The details will be posted next week, but get to brainstorming about your choices!

Hello Music class!

I hope everyone is doing well.  I enjoyed listening to the songs that some of you sent in for your project.  If you haven't done that, you still have time to turn something in for the "Choose Your Own Assignment" project.

 

This week, we'll be looking at some music history, specifically the Renaissance Period.  Under the "homework" tab in Class Notebook, you will find a few questions and a link to the YouTube video with the answers. 

 

As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns!  Don't forget you can always request a Zoom meeting with me.

 

Hello music class!

 

1. Pick a song you've been working on or already know and record yourself (audio or video is fine) playing or singing it. Send it to me in an email.

        a. Must be school appropriate

        b. Any instrument you have access to (including voice)

        c. Due May 1st by 5PM 

 

 

2. Choose one song from the list of songs below and write a short story (500 words minimum) describing what the song makes you think about. (Think of your favorite movies and the songs played in each scene, how they set the mood of the story).

For instance, maybe a song is fast and loud and makes you think of an action story or a song is calm and slow and makes you think of a stream flowing in a forest with characters on a journey.  Your job is to describe the scene the music makes you think of and write a short story about it.

Turn in through email (word file) or through Class Notebook.

Due May 1st by 5PM.

La Campanella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Dvg2MxQn8

Rhapsody in Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVh5cZ_ZvM

Waltz of the Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHkLdQy5f0

Arabesque no. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYH-7QGE-A

 

As always, please email me with any questions or concerns. 

 

 

Please continue to practice technique and play songs on the instruments you have access to. Use the links to the video lessons:

Ukulele: http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/lessons/ukulele-paula-fuga/

Bass:http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/lessons/bass-ics-getting-know-bass/

Keyboard/Piano:http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/lessons/intro-to-the-keyboard/

Guitar: http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/lessons/easy-g-chord/

Drums w/o drumset: http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/lessons/body-drumset/