2017, Term 2, Week 8: FACE the Music

How many music symbols can you find and name?

Introducing  a new music symbol this week: the minim rest. H It looks a bit like a small rectangle,  and when it sits on top of the line, it means a rest for two beats. Add bar lines below to make bars of 4 beats each. (Scroll down to end of post for the completed version.) 

Can you locate these notes on the keyboards above and below? 

Clapping and reading practice. Can you keep up? 

By the way, in New Zealand English, this would read "I don't want to practise!" We spell practise with an s when it is a verb . . . . couldn't help take the opportunity to point this out. 

Everyone: 
Practise Tutira Mai  - Scroll down two weeks ago for our original lyrics and ukulele chords if you need them, and for more information if you  need it.  

Our Theory Songs: 
I Knew You Were Treble
Ode to Treble Clef

Seniors  - A new dance to try. Choose which version you prefer. 
I Gotta Feeling (partner version) 
I Gotta Feeling (individual version - Panda dancing) 

Juniors: 
Warm up - Everywhere Stars
Matariki Macarena (Scroll down to last week's blog for more information). 
Fight Song Dance 

Our Theory Songs: 
Piano and Forte - Loud and Soft song
Crescendo and Decrescendo song

This week's nursery rhyme is Jack and Jill went up the hill 

Here's Kermit the Frog interviewing Jack  



And here's  how to play Jack and Jill on the piano, glockenspiel or recorder (except you'd have to change  the note that goes below C). 


Homework: Watch this video to learn about the beat in music "The Beat is the Heart of Music"

2017 Term 2, Week 7: Matariki

Add bar lines to match the time signature. Scroll down to find the completed version.

                                       
This week's clapping rhythm uses quavers and crotchets - and no rests. 

Our Theory Songs

 I Knew You Were Treble
Ode to Treble Clef
Piano and Forte - Loud and Soft song  
Crescendo and Decrescendo  song 

                                      Can you recognise  and name these FACE notes? 

Junior Warm-up music: Everywhere Stars by Claudia Robin Gunn   (Listen for the reference to Matariki) 

Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars which are also known as the Pleiades. It rises in late May or early June, which is mid-winter in New Zealand. For many Māori, it marks the start of a new year. Find out more about Matariki here. 

Here's a story of Matariki.

This is a short song about Matariki.

Here's the Matariki Macarena with actions and turns to each corner. 

Lyrics of Matariki Macarena 
Waiti Waita Waipunarangi 
Tupuanuku Tupuarangi 
Ko Ururangi te potiki  (the youngest of the Matariki whanau / family)
o te whanau Matariki.

This is one version of the Matariki Macarena which includes separate parts for boys and girls. 

You will recognise this tune. Copy the actions for this Matariki version of  Twinkle Twinkle 

Tirama, Tirama, Matariki
Me ona tamariki
Tupu-a-nuku
Tupu-a-rangi
Wai-ti
Wai-ta
Waipuna-rangi-e
Ko te potiki, ko Ururangi

Twinkle, twinkle, Matariki
And all your children:
Tupu-a-nuku
Tupu-a-rangi
Wai-ti
Wai-ta
Waipuna-rangi-e
And the youngest, Ururangi

Here's a useful short video to help you learn about the history of writing music, and what some of the symbols mean. This is Part 1 of a series of videos. 

Scroll down to last week's blog to practise "Tutira Mai". 

Juniors - This week's nursery rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle and cat and the fiddle.

Here's Kermit the Frog reporting for Sesame Street News about the cow jumping over the moon. 

Here's the Teddy Rock version of Hey Diddle Diddle - time for air guitar!

And a jazz version 

And a Moana version? 

Do check out this very old (1935) Terry Toons cartoon based on nursery rhymes.  It shows nursery rhyme characters heading off to school for a quite different kind of education. See what happens when the parents turn up.  Can you imagine your teachers doing what this teacher does? 

Here's the time signature exercise with the bar lines added. 

2017 Term 2 Week 6: Tutira Mai Team All Blacks

                               

Add bar lines to match the time signature.

Follow this link to read and clap a rhythm using crotchets and quavers.  Get ready - it's quite fast. 

Tutira Mai - We are being encouraged to learn and sing Tutira Mai as a sports fan anthem to support New Zealand sports teams - especially starting with our teams playing agains the visiting United Kingdom Lions rugby team.   Other countries have songs that the spectators often sing  to encourage their teams, and ex-All Black (and current police officer) Glen Osborne is leading the promotion. Here's some background information on the the song and its composer, Canon Wiremu Te Tau Huata, MC, QSO, CBE (1917 - 1991), also known as Wi Huata. 

                   

From the official Tutira Mai Stand Together site 

Here's Tutira Mai in G for the recorder  and glockenspiel players.   Can you see anything unusual in the timing? 

Basi c ukulele / guitar chords in C major

Here's Titira Mai on Chordify - in G major. There's a few options you can explore, and it includes a few more chord options.  

Here's a Spanish site with backing track and sheet music (treble clef) for Tutira Mai. It goes quite fast. 

Get it? 

                                 

Can you recognise the notes F, A,C, E on these flash cards? 

Here's a song to help you remember the note in the spaces spell FACE. 
And our favourite song to help us remember the notes FACE and the treble clef: I Knew You Were Treble. 


Juniors: 
Warm up music: Everywhere Stars by Claudia Robin Gunn. 

Craig Smith (writer and singer of Wonky Donkey) has also done an arrangement of My Daddy Ate an Apple - with an accompanying picture book.  Here's the song.  It's easy enough to pick up even without the lyrics in front of you. 

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Here's an action song to Humpty Dumpty  - with a second verse. 
Humpty Dumpty with a bit of a safety message.  
And here, Kermit the Frog gives a news report on Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. 
And another Sesame Street clip about Humpty - and his safety helmet. 

Previous Nursery Rhymes: 
Hickory Dickory Dock Dance 
Three Blind Mice 
Baa Baa Black Sheep 
Mary Had a Little Lamb 

2017 Term 2, Week 5: Funny songs by Fatcat and Fishface

Add bar lines. Then practise keeping the beat with one hand while you play the rhythm with the other. This can be tricky to start with, especially when there is no obvious pattern. 

Can you clap /play this rhythm in time with the beat? 

We are learning to recognise, find and write the notes F, A,C, E on the treble clef. You can use this virtual keyboard to help you find the notes on a keyboard and to hear what they sound like. 

Juniors: 
Warm up and focus song: How Many Sleeps by Claudia Robin Gunn 
                                            
This Week's nursery rhyme is Mary had a Little Lamb, which is based on a real person and a real event in America.   Here's Paul McCartney (ex Beatles) and Wings sing his version of Mary had a Little Lamb. 

Here's a Muppets story with Kermit helping Don Music find a rhyme for "snow" so he can finish his Mary Had a Little Lamb song. 

And the Sesame Street Honkers do an instrumental version of Mary had a Little Lamb 
Join Dora the Explorer and friends and follow their moves for a Mary had a Little Lamb dance. (Fast Forward to 33 on the video to skip the gaming introduction.) 

Seniors: 
Here's some of our favourite New Zealand kids' songs singers - Fatcat and Fishface: 

Fatcat and Fishface 

When You've Got Your Favourite Undies On      

Noodle   and here's the lyrics .

Here's a claymation version of Noodle. 

Dog's Breath is an interesting song with just animal sounds.The video is just someone else's interpretation of it. You can find out more about it here. 

And some of our other Fatcat and Fishface favourites:
Selfish Shellfish           Lyrics
Wreck of the Diddley   Lyrics 
Tip of My Tongue         Lyrics 
Bird Brain                    Lyrics 

                                                  

2017 Term 2, Week 4: Dynamics

Work in progress 

New Zealand Music Month video clips: 

Gumboot Song by John Clarke (Fredd Dagg)

Add bar lines to each measure of music above. 

Diminuendo is also known as Decrescendo. 

Songs: 

I knew You Were Treble 

Wreck of the Diddley  (NZ)

Cat Scratch Fever by FleaBITE (NZ)  This is a song about a pet cat that tends to scratch.
Here are the lyrics.

Juniors:
This week's nursery rhyme is Baa Baa Black Sheep