Month: April 2020

Activity for April 29th-30th, 2020

Activity for April 29th-20th, 2020: 

Create your own beats using Chrome Music Lab! Follow the link to the rhythm creator in Chrome Music Lab. You can change up the beats by clicking on the on the dots. To take away beats, simply click on the dots again! When you think you have a good beat, press play and hear what you made!

There are 4 different preset beats you can change around. Try your hand at all of them or whichever ones you want! Feel free to send me an email letting me know how you did!

Chrome Music Lab Rhythm Creator

 

***If you have made your ukulele stick, check out the new ukulele videos and activities page!!***

Create a Practice Ukulele Stick

Create your own practice ukulele stick at home following this simple tutorial! What can the ukulele stick do? Well, it can help you practice where to place your fingers to create chords so that when you get a real ukulele you’re one step ahead of the game!

ukulele craft

Basics of Ukulele Videos 1+2

Basics of Ukulele Video #1: 

Hello! Here is a link to my first video on the basics of playing the ukulele. I wish we could be learning this in person, but I’ve done my best to recreate our lessons digitally. Please note: Due to the nature of cameras, what you see me doing will be the opposite from what you are doing! Follow the directions I say when holding the ukulele and you will be good to go! 

Ukulele Video #1

 

Basics of Ukulele Video #2: 

Here is the link to the second ukulele video, where we learn how to finger our first chord, C! Please note: Due to the nature of cameras, what you see me doing will be the opposite from what you are doing! Follow the directions I say when holding the ukulele and you will be good to go! I have also included a picture showing where to put your sticker on your ukulele stick or ukulele in more detail.

Ukulele Video #2

 

Activity for April 29th-30th, 2020

Activity for April 29th-30th, 2020: 

More Chrome Music Lab Exploration! This week, explore the Song Maker feature of Chrome Music Lab. You can create a song with a melody and a beat. To add a drum beat, click on the first two rows of dots. You can get rid of something by just clicking it again! To add a melody, click on the squares to find different notes. You can even have multiple notes playing at a time! You can change instruments around on the bottom as well as change the speed.

Here is a song that I created!

Feel free to send me songs that you make by hitting the “Save” check mark and then copy and pasting a link into an email! I hope you have fun 🙂

Activity for April 29th-30th, 2020

Activities for April 29th-20th: 

This week, pick at least one activity from the choice board to complete at home! You may do more activities if you want to 🙂 Let me know how your activity goes this week!

choiceboard1

 

For Recorder:

Pick one activity from the Recorder Enrichment Activities  to do this week. If you would like to earn virtual recorder belts, take a video of you playing one of the belt songs from the Recorder Karate Textbook . The orange belt song is on page 15. Remember, you can submit your best video. I will watch them and then give you some feedback and a certificate for each belt you pass!

Activity for April 22nd-23rd, 2020

Activity for April 22nd-23rd, 2020:

Create your own beats using Chrome Music Lab! Follow the link to the rhythm creator in Chrome Music Lab. You can change up the beats by clicking on the on the dots. To take away beats, simply click on the dots again! When you think you have a good beat, press play and hear what you made!

There are 4 different preset beats you can change around. Try your hand at all of them or whichever ones you want! Feel free to send me an email letting me know how you did!

Chrome Music Lab Rhythm Creator

Activity for April 8th-9th, 2020

Activity for April 8-9th, 2020: 

This week, use the song creator from Classics for Kids to create a song! If you want to play around with it before you make your final song, I will always encourage that! After you’ve made your final song, give it a listen and then answer the questions below. You can also share your song with me via email!

Reflection Questions:

Write these on a scrap piece of paper!

  1. How would you describe your song? Happy, sad, long, short, fast, slow…pick 3 descriptive words for your song.
  2. If you could give your song a title, what would it be?
  3. What instrument would you want to play your song?
  4. If you could change anything about your song, what would it be?

 

Main Menu