Murdock Music

Music Supplies   To reduce confusion and ensure every student has the correct materials, supplies for music class have been ordered through the school. The kits will come with a variety of grade level specific paper manipulatives, as well as rhythm sticks, a shaker, and a scraping instrument. I will send out emails and notify students when they are available to pick up at Murdock Elementary. The cost is $4 plus a small transaction fee charged by the processing company.    To pay for the music kit:   1.       Go to:  https://www2.mypaymentsplus.com/welcome a.       This is the same system used to pay for ASP and school lunches. b.       Alternately, go through  www.Cobbk12.org  select “Make Online Payments”                                                 i.       Then select “After School Program” (it will direct you to the My Payments Plus website). 2.       Login or Create account 3.       Select the “Events & Activities” tab from the blue banner 4.       Your child’s name should

George Cohan (1878-1942) was a celebrated American song writer. He is especially known for his patriotic music like "Over There", "Yankee Doodle Boy", and "You're a Grand Old Flag. Here is the sheet music for piano and voice. Challenge We need video recordings of "You're a Grand Old Flag" to put on the MBC news. Only the best videos will be played. By sending me your video of "You're a Grand Old Flag", you and your parents are giving me permission to use it on MBC, the school news broadcast. Just follow the rules, practice, record, and send me your video. To participate, you must submit a video with: -You and/or someone who gives permission to be recorded for this project performing the song. -The words must be clear (it is for a sing along). -You must be using your best singing voice. You may: -Change the accompaniment (music that goes with the singing) to make it easier or to play on another instru

Not an Assignment....but you should do it anyway. This is on ongoing project, so check back every now and then to see what is added. Make music using patterns: https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2017/fischinger/fischinger17.9.html?hl=en Be a DJ and mix your own fresh beats: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop Play an instrument: Theremin: https://www.google.com/doodles/clara-rockmores-105th-birthday Reading and Writing: Beethoven: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year

K-1 Tell a story using high voice (head voice) and low voice (chest voice) Gather some stuffed animals, toys, or puppets and make you own story. At least 1  character must have a high voice, like porky here: At least 1  character must have a low voice, like Slothy here: You can add as many characters as you want and even include siblings. Have fun with your story. Maybe some of your characters will even sing to each other in their different voices. 2-5 Composing Music Work on creating your own music on a staff with the Compose Your Own Music tool at Classics for kids. If you want, you can email me a link for feedback or just send it to friends and family.

Teach me a song you love. K-5 You are going to cover a song. "Covering" is when you play a song that someone else wrote. As much as I love to hear the songs you wrote yourself, save those for another day. Here is my cover of "Bastille Day" by the band Rush Choose a song, practice, perform, and record it. It doesn't have to be fancy (I like doing multitrack videos, you don't have to). There is a 3 minute maximum limit on the flip grid recordings. Post it on my Flipgrid  Here . or  You can always email it to me if you don't want to share with other students. You must: Perform the music by either singing or playing an instrument. You may: Sing it without accompaniment. Use Karaoke tracks (there are a lot of these on YouTube) Sing it along with a recording Play it on an instrument. Dress up as a character or performer. Get help and work with family members (back up band?) Have fun with it! You may not: Lip sy

Found Sounds! K-5 For this assignment, you are going to find or make your own instruments. Thank you goes to Mrs. Marmoll and Mrs. Smith for inspiring this with their science lesson. K-1 I recommend finding a drum type instrument. 2-3 Try to make your own shaking or scraping instrument. 4-5 Try to make an instrument that has 2 or more pitches. In my video, I used items found in my kitchen. You are welcome to use anything found in or around your home. I love finding and creating new sounds with all kinds of things. Please post a photo or video of your instrument(s) here  (also see a bonus video of one of my other musical instrument creations). If you don't want to share your video/photo on flip grid you can  email  it instead.