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.
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.
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 ...
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” ...
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