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
Brass parts
Fleet Y5 / St Mary & St Pancras Y6
Year 4
Autumn 2021
1st half term
Everything you need to practice at home is here (click)
All the Book 1 tunes, demos and accompaniments to play along with.
Recorders
A few people still haven't brought their letters back yet!
You can take your recorder home to practice when you do.
In the lessons so far, we've learnt the notes G A B C high D and low D.
We've been playing these tunes:
'Cups of Tea', 'Merrily' ,'Walking the Dog', 'Another Rainy Day' ,
'Toad in a Hat' and 'Now the Day is Over'
Some of you have started learning 'London's Burning' (click here)
When you can play it, the next tune is 'Funky Freda' (click here)
Samba & Singing
Last term we worked on the agogo/cowbell rhythm (click here)
and the '8s break' (click here)
We also sang Furrem Be Meheen/Mary Mac (click here)
Scroll down or use the menu on the left for more Samba and Songs.
Here's a new tamborim rhythm to learn:
1st part
'I don't like cabbage'
2nd part
'I don't like cabbage, I like potatoes'
2
1
1
2
The underlined syllables (don't, ca and like) are on the main beats: 1 2 1 2
All the other syllables are in between the main beats.
It's time to put all the ideas we've been working on together to make a complete Samba Piece.
We're going to have 5 parts or 'sections'. This is how it's going to work:
- Section 1: Spider Mouse Break.
- Section 2: Main rhythm - surdos start; tamborims join in; agogos join in next.
- Section 3: 8s Break.
- Section 4: Main rhythm - all start together.
- Section 5: Spider Mouse Break.
Watch the video first, then see if you can join in on one of your DIY instruments - 'surdo', 'tamborim' or 'agogo'. Then try another one.
Did you learn the Eights Break? If you didn't, have a go now! (click here)
We're going to learn an extra bit for the tamborim.
I'm going to use my measuring jug and a wooden spoon.
How about you? If you can't find anything, just clap it or tap your knee.
Watch the videos:
This is another samba break. We call it the 'Eights Break':
The idea is to count in your head while clapping or playing just on the 1 s
One two three four five six seven eight
One two three four five six seven eight
One two three four One two three four
One two One two One One One One
1. Just say it to start with, like this:
2. Say it again and clap on all the Ones like this:
3. Clap again, but don't count aloud, just count in your head:
4. Play it on a DIY instrument (eg frying pan!):
Can you play it in time without even counting in your head?
Here's another way to think about it:
mouse
sh
sh
sh
mouse
sh
sh
sh
mouse
sh
mouse
sh
mouse
mouse
spi-der
spi-der
And another song to learn...
Find a DIY agogo. Nothing breakable or too valuable! Then try this:
Here's another song we learnt last year.
Can you work out what's happening? Pick a part and sing along
The 'Spider Mouse' samba break.
Say it
Clap it
Try being the leader too!
Can you teach it to someone else in your family?
You probably haven't got any Samba kit at home!
Here's an idea from Tom for making your own.
Turn your family into a Samba Band!
I'm going to have a go myself. I'll let you know how I got on next week!
Singing
Here are two songs we started singing last year.
'Furrem be me heen' and 'Mary Mac'
Choose which singer you want to sing along with!
Lots more songs to listen to and learn here
Things we did last term
Here are some of the things we were doing in the lessons last term.
Please have a look and see how much you can remember.
We'll be coming back to them over the next few weeks
Doubling the speed
4 notes in a bar
Click
8 notes in a bar (twice as fast)
Click
Click
16 notes in a bar (4 times faster)
Try practising these - either with 2 hands on your knees or with 2 pencils on a table or book.
Samba
Band
Flag of Brazil
Map of Brazil
Surdo drums
Surdo 1
Odd numbers
Surdo 2
Even numbers 'opposing'
Complicated - can you work it out?
Surdo 3
Some proper Brazilian Samba
Tamborim
Low
High
High
Agogo Bells
High
Low
Play the tamborim and agogo parts together
'Leave a space, don't play now'
Agogo
Tamborim
'Leave a space'
'Leave a space'