Murdock Music

Play-alongs Here are some Easy Play-along videos for you to keep up your recorder skills. The Visual Musical Minds YouTube channel has plenty more, so ask for permission to check out their videos and get practicing. Forget your fingerings? Go  here . Just hover over the notes to see the fingering or click on them to hear the pitch. Share your music! Post a short video or picture of you practicing  here . 

Folk Song Share Grades K-5 Background Many of the songs we sing in class are Folk Songs.  Folk Songs are:  1. Songs of regular people, not the nobility, the rich and powerful, or the famous 2. Passed down through oral tradition (taught by singing together) 3. use acoustic instruments or no instruments at all. 4. No clear original composer or song writer Some examples are: Scarborough Fair, Sakura, Auld Lang Syne (the New Year's song), Arirang, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Kalinka, Yankee Doodle. Not only are folk songs  used in the music classroom, great composers often took folk songs they heard and put them in their music. If you want to explore how composers use folk songs, check out this story from Classics for Kids . Assignment Murdock has a diverse community with cultures from around the world represented. I thought it would be neat to make a collection of folk songs that represent our school. This song can be done with your siblings ...

Everyone Spirit Day! Social Distancing is difficult, but it is important. I hope you are enjoying time with your families and are learning lots of different things (math, science, organization, cooking, laundry, etc). Don't forget to take time to play outside and play music. I miss hearing your voices and making music with all of you. These assignments are going to build on the assignments from the March 17th E-Learning  post. Go through this lesson and then go back to the other post and try some things out. Melody Maker all grades This is building on 1st grades lesson from the  March 17th E-Learning  post, if you want start there.  Watch this short video. Quiz Kinder - 5th grade Create your own melody with the  Melody Maker . Can you sing your melody? Play it on an instrument (piano, recorder, ukulele, guitar)? If you are able, send a video or picture of you performing your melody to   Patrick.hydo@cobbk12.org ...

Incredibox and Recorder One of my favorite ways to practice is to improvise (make music up on the spot). Usually I like improvising with friends or family members, but right now meeting with friends is out of the question and not all of you have family members that play musical instruments. So we are going to improvise with Incredibox ! You can use the app or the web version. Because of the key (notes used), it is easiest to improvise with "The Love", so select that. Add a few ostinatos, and then start creating your own melody over them. Try not to add too many or else there won't be enough "space" to add you improvisation. I usually use these three guys: The key is A minor. You can use any notes that aren't flat or sharp, but A is the most important followed by E Want a rhythm to get you started? Try this one: Forget your fingerings? Go here . Just hover over the notes to see the fingering or cl...

If you want... I am going to make recorder posts. If you have your recorder and want to play along, join us. If you don't have your recorder, no worries. These posts will just be for fun. First... Tips:  Top rack only No heated drying (it can warp the plastic) Where do you practice? Send a picture or video of you practicing your recorder.

Each week I will be posting a short musical lesson for each grade level. Please also check out the  Murdock E-Learning  post for other activities. Feel free to email me at Patrick.Hydo@cobbk12.org with any questions or concerns. Todays activities utilize the Chrome Music Lab experiments. Although they should work with any browser, I found on my iOS devices they work best in Chrome (of course). Each activity was chosen for a specific grade level, but students should be encouraged to explore. I'd love to see what the kids come up with. Please send screenshots or recordings to my email. All Grades Vocal Warm up Explore the  vocal oscillators . By clicking on one of the characters and moving up and down, you can make siren noises. Notice as you go high and low, the character gets taller and shorter. Using the blue character (sine wave oscillator), practice making sirens and then singing them on "Oooo" (as in "boo" not "Oh"). Start with ...

Parents, While Cobb County Schools are out, this blog will be your source for musical activities, assignments, and links. All assignments will be posted on this blog . All necessary resources will be included or linked from the post. Any assessments will be done using Microsoft forms and should be able to be completed from any internet enabled device. Listed below are a variety of free resources and games. Music  -at- HOME       https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com       Chrome Music Lab   offers 13 different ways to make and/or experiment with music and sound science.       Appropriate for K-5 !        https://www.incredibox.com       The most fun way ever to make music ostinatos!! An ostinato is simply a repeating rhythm or melodic pattern. Typically, an ostinato underlies the main melody, like the pat-pat-clap part to Queen’s   We Will Rock You.       Appropriate for K-5!     The first fo...