2017, Term 2, Week 9: Musical Fidget Spinners

What music symbols can you recognise? 

Fidget spinners are all the rage at the moment - so why not have a fidget-spinning song?



This one, called Fidget Spinner Song for Kids is likely to be very catchy - but probably more annoying than the fidget spinners themselves. 

And one more Fidget Spinner song. 

 Add bar lines to have four beats in each bar.  Scroll down to end of post for completed version. 

Notation Song  - Remember that notes in the space spell FACE, and notes on the line (EGBEF) do the rhyme. 

Another notation song: Time to learn more about notes on the line - EGBDF - Every Good Boy Does Fine. 

Here's a flashcard quiz to test your knowledge of FACE and EGBDF. 

And here's a note name game to play by yourself on your own device. Just press the note name on your keyboard. 

Scroll down to last week's post to check out the notes on the staff and then find them on the keyboard. 

                                     


Dances - Rock around the clock (juniors) 

Juniors: 
This week's nursery rhyme is about the old woman who lived in a shoe.

This is a rock'n'roll version of the old lady who lived in the shoe - with quite a different story to it. 

Here's Kermit the frog trying to find the old woman to interview her for Sesame Street News. 

How do they do this? Can you see that they have to keep in time with the music and count to keep together.



Ukulele and Glockenspiels: 
A new song: Rock around the Clock.  This is in the key of A and uses A, A7, E7 and D7. 

Here's the original from the movie Rock around the Clock. 

Homework: Watch this video about rhythm, and learn the difference between beat and rhythm.  It carries on from last week's video about beat.  Skip to the  explanation at 1:25 and the practise exercise at 3:07.  Note that USA names are used here: semibreves are called whole notes,  minims are called half notes, crotchets are called quarter notes, and quavers are called eighth notes  in this video.