Hello again, students!
I hope everyone has had another good week, learning and playing all week at home. If you were able to get your buzzing homemade woodwind instrument to work, I hope you didn't annoy the whole family with it. Now, we're moving on to a different group of instruments: The Brass Instruments. The brass family in the orchestra is typically made up of a Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone and Tuba. Take a listen to them in this performance of "Flight of the Bumblebee" by The Canadian Brass: Brass instruments come in all shapes and sizes, which create many different sounds! Just as well, there are many different ways to play them. You can learn more about these instruments, and their history, by watching the following video. Be sure to finish the quiz, after watching!
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Students and parents, Thank you for the great work that you put into your videos! Everyone's great work went into this "Grace Flows Down" video, and it turned out to be very nice! I cannot wait for the day that everyone is able to be back together in the classroom, to make music together. For now, its nice to see that students are putting in good work from home. For the next few days, I figured it would be good to get back to instruments. The other week we were learning more about Woodwind Instruments. From ancient times, people have been making instruments to make music together, using whatever they had. So, I have a project that you can do to make your own woodwind instruments at home! For this project, you'll need the following supplies: - Two popsicle sticks - Rubber bands - Paper - Tape - (If you don't have tape or paper, you can also use straws) There is an instructional video at the end of this blog post. 1. Wrap one rubber band around the length of one popsicle stick. It needs to go long ways! 2. Cut two 1" or 2" squares of paper, depending on how big your popsicle stick is. 3. Wrap tape around the paper, so the sicky part is on the OUTSIDE 4. Stick the tape to the ends of other empty popsicle stick 5a. Place the popsicle stick with the rubber band on top of the tape 5b. (If you don't have paper or tape, you can cut plastic straws to place between the popsicle sticks) 6. Hold the sticks together,place your mouth on it and blow hard enough for the rubber band to vibrate. Congrats! You have a rubber band harmonica! The popsicle sticks act like the woodwind's mouthpiece, while the rubber band acts like a reed. The reed vibrates, causing the air around the reed to vibrate with it. The vibrating air is the music that you hear! Here's a video with instructions. Have a great rest of your week! Hellooooo Students! I hope everyone is having a lovely Holy Week at home, learning, praying and spending time with family. As it is Holy Week, I figured we should take some time for some musical reflection. Some of you may know the song "Grace Flows Down" from last year. I often like to use this song for school masses during Lent. Since we can't be together during this time of year, I figured that we need a virtual way to sing and perform together. So, our assignment for this week is to create a music video! I want you to practice singing the song in this video, and learning the motions. When you're ready, take a video of yourself singing and performing the motions. Then, just email it to me! I'll put everyone's work into one big video. I'm hoping to get as many students in the video as possible! I expect some good stuff! Here's the Song: |
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