Year 1
Happy New Year everyone!
Some musical things to keep you busy while we're at home
This Week - 26th January
Here are some longer body percussion rhythms to try.
Can you do each one four times in a row?
In the videos, I've replaced the knee slap with a bass drum
and the clap with a snare drum.
Can you find two different sounds of your own?
You could try foot stamps and finger clicks.
More here:
Start learning the words for: 'Mary Mac' (00:48):
Click the triangles
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me,
And my mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Oh I've got to marry Mary, to get Mary to take care of me,
We'll all be making merry when I marry Mary Mac.
Last Week - 19th January
Words for: 'Furrem Be Me Heen':
Click the triangles to hear them
Furrem be me heen
Zanna vis ma gorchas
Furrem be me heen
Zanna vis ma gorchas
Furrem be me heen
Zanna vis ma gorchas
Furrem be me heen
Vee ma gorchas san
2. Try recording your voice in this app. click here. It's called Voice Spinner
Watch me playing with it in this video and see if you can work it out.
Have fun!
Older things....
Can you do these body percussion rhythms?
Play the videos to see if you were right!
More here:
Did you manage to do the instrument quiz? Click here if not.
Please keep practising the songs. Lots more here, if you want something new.
Two Songs
Have a great week!
1. Here's the song 'Zum Gally Gally' we learnt last term. See if you can sing along!
Click the play button!
2. We started learning 'Hey ho, nobody home'. Here are the words:
Hey Ho nobody home.
Meat, nor drink, nor money have I none.
Still I will be merry, very merry,
Hey ho nobody home.
Watch the video to learn it. Choose a singer to sing along with!
Click to go full size!
INSTRUMENT QUIZ
Last term we tried out lots of different percussion instruments (things you hit or shake). Here are some of them:
Cowbell
Woodblock
Triangle
Claves
Drum
Tambourine
Maracas
Watch the videos - can you recognise which instrument is playing?
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5
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7
Can you recognise them just from the sounds they make?
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7
Answers here:
Have you watched all the Christmas videos?
They're here
Everything from last term
Tambourine
Maraccas
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
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
Volume
Crescendo
Diminuendo
Speed
fast
lots of notes
slow
a few notes