This Week - 2nd February
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
This Week - 18th January / 22nd January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
Brecknock & Torriano
Primary Federation
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Coleridge Primary
Orchestra
Fleet Primary
Brass
Year 1
Songs
The Brecknock verse - more to come!


Wooden agogo
Claves

Percussion
made of wood
Wood block
'Music for pieces of wood' by Steve Reich
Cowbell



Triangle
Cymbals
Percussion
made of metal
'Snell's Beach' by Max Riefer
Percussion
made of 'skin' (DRUMS!)
Some drum heads are made out of real animal skin (yuk) but most of our's are completely vegetarian!






Djembe drumming from West Africa

Darbuka drumming from Turkey

Evelyn Glennie
Shakers

Tambourine

Maraccas
INSTRUMENT QUIZ
Here are some of the percussion instruments (things you hit or shake) we've been playing this term. Watch the videos and see if you recognise them.

Claves

Woodblock


Cowbell
Triangle

Drum

Tambourine

Maracas
Watch the videos - can you recognise which instrument is playing?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Can you recognise them just from the sounds they make?
1
2
5
6
Answers here:
Percussion from Cuba
3
4
7
Tablas from India
Volume
Crescendo

Diminuendo




Clarinet
Flute
Three blowing instruments
'woodwind'
Saxophone
Some words we've been using
Percussion - instruments you hit
- wood block
- claves
- triangle
- cowbell
- cymbal
- drums
- maracas
- tambourine
- darbuka
- djembe
- tablas
Woodwind - instruments you blow
- flute
- clarinet
- saxophone
Bits of a song
- verse
- chorus
- intro
- outro
- instrumental
Volume
- loud
- soft
- crescendo - get louder
- diminuendo - get softer
More musical words
- melody - one note at a time
- chord - two or more notes at once
Reading and writing music




Shh


Body percussion rhythm

Knee

Knee

Clap

(Shh)
More rhythms to try
Body percussion rhythm on a 3 line stave

More rhythms to try

Boomwackers
High
The smaller the boomwacker,
the higher the note,
The bigger the boomwacker,
the lower the note,
Low
Boomwacker tunes
More tunes to try
Low boomwacker

High boomwacker
Volume



Crescendo

Diminuendo
Speed

fast
lots of notes

slow
a few notes