2017, Term 1, Week 4 Dances and Dynamics

Dances:

Juniors: 

Hokey Tokey, 

Follow the Leader 

Yakkety Yack 

Skip to My Lou 

Seniors: 

Best Day of My Life 

Kidzbop Shuffle 

Kung Fu Fighting 

Intermediates:

Beat it 

Brooklyn Hustle Line Dance (Saturday Night Fever) 

Songs: 

(Juniors) 

Shark Song

Loud and Soft  Forte, piano, fortissimo, pianissimo, decrescendo, forte, forte, piano, forte, forte, piano, forte!

Buenos Dias 

Uno, Dos, Tres

Listening (Lesson warm down - Juniors): Listen to Lullaby Time by Claudia Robin Gunn. What pictures do you see in your mind when you listen to this?  

Theory Practice: 

Put bar lines in to make 5 bars with four beats in each bar. 

Here's a fun rhythm pattern with hands clapping and snapping.  See if you can keep in time counting the beat. 

Here's some patterns we can clap in groups. Can we all keep in time?  Note the two dots at the beginning and end of each line. What do they mean? 

Revision - Dynamics: Dynamics means how loud or soft (quiet) music is played.   This helps make music sound more interesting. When a piece of music - or lyrics (words in a song) are repeated, changing the dynamics each time helps create a different feeling.  We have learned the words pianissimo, piano, forte and fortissimo. But other words for dynamics are mezzoforte and mezzopiano. What do you think they mean?  We remember that crescendo means getting louder and decrescendo or diminuendo means getting softer or quieter. 

Dynamic Terms - Write the missing letters in the boxes to complete the words which describe dynamics in music, then say the words aloud. 

Here's a short video of Kermit the Frog and Elmo discussing loud and quiet.  When are they talking forte and fortissimo, and when and they talking piano and pianissimo? (Talking normal volume is mezzo forte or mezzo piano). 

Intermediates/Extension: Ukulele - play along with the song

La Bamba 
Surfin' USA

A Bit of Fun 
Anyone (any thing?) can learn to play music! Check out this video to see what I mean.