2017 Term 2, Week 3: More New Zealand Music and Musicians

Last week some classes had a go at playing the spoons.  Here's the Topp Twins (as Camp Mother and Camp Leader) performing with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra playing the William Tell Overture. Camp Mother plays the spoons and Camp Leader plays the cymbals - sort of.  

Here's the Topp Twins teaching a young girl to play the spoons.

Add bar lines to fit the time signature. 

Dances: Follow this link to choose from our favourite dances. 

How many Sleeps - by Claudia Robin Gunn  (NZ) 

Years 1 and 2: Nursery Rhymes 

 Dance:Hickory Dickory Dock

We continue our topic of nursery rhymes with Three Blind Mice 

•  Here's a Walt Disney cartoon called the Three Blind Mousketeers, from 1936.  Listen and watch for how the animals' movements and actions become part of the music and rhythm patterns. 
• And a Muppets version of Four Blind Mice - done as a round. 
• Something really different - a jazz version of Three Blind Mice from 1962 by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. What instruments can you identify? Listen to all the different drumming sounds and patterns.  Can you identify the basic tune? 
• And a Teddy Rock version of Three Blind Mice so you can practise you air guitar and air drumming skills. 

We have learnt that piano means soft and forte means loud, pianissimo means very soft and fortissimo means very loud.  This week we are learning that crescendo means getting louder and decrescendo means getting softer. 

Here's our piano - forte song. 

Here's a song about crescendo and decrescendo 

Years 3 and 4:  Songs that tell a story: 

The Wreck of the Diddley by Fatcat and Fishface (NZ) 
Here's a link to the lyrics. 
Here's a link to the chords (guitar, ukulele and piano). It goes very fast, and you may not be able to keep up all the time, but you can maybe keep up with the chorus. Rcorder players - you can use the chord notes as the notes to play. 

Some vocabulary:
typhoon - a very big storm
port - the lefthand side (or direction) from a vessel when facing the front.
starboard - the righthand side (or direction) from a vessel facing forward.



anachronism - something which is historically incorrect because it wasn't invented or known about at the time. For example, the flush toilet in the Wreck of the Diddley video is an anachronism because those kind of toilets did not exist on ships at the time the song is written about.
dozen - twelve
abandon - leave 

core - centre

Years 5& 6, 7&8 - More Ukulele Links: 

Try these new chords for Walking on Water by Ben Tipene 

or you could just sing along with Ben Tipene here. (NZ)

Here's  the chords for Royals by Lorde 

D and G  chords will be new for many of you, but just play the D parts to start with.

Here's the link to the You Tube video Royals by Lorde (NZ),  so you can play along with it. Listen to the percussion - can you hear a regular beat 

And another one chord song - Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone (1969) which can be played entirely in the Key of G. 

And, by popular request, Locked Away by Adam Levine and R.City.