Early OctoberLEARNING TO READ MUSIC ESSENTIALS FOR GRADE 2-5
Check out the following MUSIC websites : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXF-AcYbv0&t=3s reading music cartoon style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzSnns14suE reading music with visual/game To make music it is helpful to learn how to read music! Music is lines and Spaces There are five lines on the staff. The staff is where you put the notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk16ECakn-M review this to get the basics! Lines on the Treble Clef --- Line ONE Line TWO Line THREE Line FOUR Line FIVE E G B D F to help you remember this many folks make up a mnenomic device -- taking each letter and putting a word to it: EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE there are many songs and videos that folks have made to help you remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgeW_Uk13dk gotta watch and memorize this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9LA60BtTw Between the lines there are spaces. How many spaces are there? It's just like your hand. You have finger fingers and in between your fingers you have spaces. How many? Space ONE Space TWO Space THREE Space FOUR F A C E when you combine the notes on the lines and the spaces you get the alphabet: E F G A B C D and then it goes again notice after G I went to A the letters continue to repeat over and over. How many different letters are there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1v74oWfK8s song about the spaces did you notice the spaces spell a word? That is the name of the song! LATE October
GREAT MUSIC TO LISTEN TO: DANSE MACABRE by Saint Saens there are orchestras performing the music, cartoons set to this, listening maps. Specific instruments represent certain themes in the music. The very beginning you hear a chime representing the clock and a rooster. What do you think the rooster represents? How many chimes? What do you think that represents? What other instruments do you hear? It's being offered at Halloween so use your imagination! Check out at least two of these and tell me some observations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpqcJ1IfoA orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMzBnuBC6Y another version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIh4t9S_O60 score, actual music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0glOYQBlSA cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLRTS28bhMg another version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnocQrfzXJ0 listening map |