YEAR 6

Summer 2021

1st half term

This Week - 26th April

Music Tech

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Here's the on-line Chord Player we've been using in the lessons:

And the on-line Drum Machine

Click here to open

To use them both 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.

Bandlab help 

Logging in

Click the button to hear some of the music composed by 6Y last term

Website address: edu.bandlab.com

Username:(your first name, no capitals)@y6.com

Password:yearsix

Full log in instructions here or watch the video:

Basic Controls

Watch this video to remind yourself about the basic controls.

There's a 'Basic Controls' assignment in your BandLab 'classroom'. Have a go yourself.

- 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...

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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.

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

Use 'Automation' to automatically control the volume (loudness/softness) of each track throughout a song.

This is really useful for making smooth fade-ins, fade-outs and crossfades.

Watch this video to remind you how it works:

Lesson

It's usually most effective if you use it slowly and not too much. 

Automation which looks like a mountain range (lots of jagged spikes)

doesn't normally sound that great!

Use your ears, not your eyes, to work out what sounds best.

Go to this assignment (click here) to practice, then try using it in your own projects

Watch this first

 Band 

'Edge of Great' is here

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'The Midnight Sky' is here

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 Alicia 

  Singing & Choir 

Lots of you were in the choir last year and sang brilliantly at the Royal Albert Hall in March.

Here are some reminders:

Normally, we'd be practising for the Primary Singing Festival.
It can't happen this year, so Camden Music are organising a 'Zoomival' instead!

There are four songs to learn:  

click here
Have a listen and see whether you'd like to join in.

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More songs to learn, just for fun, here

Normally, we'd be practising for the Primary Singing Festival.
It can't happen this year, so Camden Music are organising a 'Zoomival' instead!

There are four songs to learn:  

click here
Have a listen and see whether you'd like to join in.

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More songs to learn, just for fun, here

Have you watched everyone's Christmas videos yet?

They're here

Recorders

Why not get your recorder out again?

Go on - you know you want to!

All the tunes, demos and backing tracks are here:

Samba