Now try it with Notation C
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
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
YEAR 6
Summer 2021
2nd half term
Leavers Videos
Memories & Song
The Bare Necessities
The Doomstars live!
Slideshow (slow)
Slideshow (fast)

'Kentish Town Videos'
This half term we're composing music to go with some video footage of Kentish Town.
We need to use Logic Pro X software for this. It only works on Macs and it's quite expensive!
Keep using Bandlab and the other online apps for composing music at home.
Music Tech
Here are the three online apps we used last half term:
1. Song Maker
More Chrome Music Lab experiments here
2. Chord Player
3. Drum Machine
To use Chord Player and Drum Machine together, remember to open them in different tabs.
Click 'enable drum machine' in the Chord Player toolbox.
Start the Chord Player, then switch to the Drum Machine.
Chord Player controls the tempo.

Export or download your work as either:
- wav (audio) files
or
- midi files
then import them into Bandlab
Bandlab help

Logging in
Click the button to hear some of the music composed by 6Y last term
Full log in instructions here or watch the video:
Go full size,
the writing's quite small
Basic Controls
Watch this video to remind yourself about the basic controls.
Go full size,
the writing's quite small
There's a 'Basic Controls' assignment in your BandLab 'classroom'. Have a go yourself.
Using Loops
Make sure that all your loops are properly lined up with each other and the timeline.
Watch this short video to see what I mean...
make it big
- Try not to use too many loops at the very start of your song. You don't need loads of loops to make it sound interesting. Three or four is plenty.
- Copy and paste them to make your song longer, then delete some so it doesn't sound exactly the same all the way through.
- You can add some shorter loops later, sound effects etc, to make it more interesting.
Watch this video...
Copy & Paste
make it big
Right click or <command C> to copy.
Move the song position line to where in the piece you want it to go.
Right click or <command V> to paste.
Recording your voice
Try to record something and practice cutting it up.
Just play with it to start with - don't worry about making it sound good.
You can add some loops as well, if you want to, of course.
Reverb & Delay
Watch the video, then try using reverb and delay on your own voice recordings.
Try adding some voice sounds to your pieces, combining them with loops, drum machine or keyboard playing. Single words and short sentences (with some reverb and/or delay) often work well. No need to write the lyrics for a whole song. Singing or just speaking is fine.
Automation