Sunday, April 26, 2020

April 27-30

Dear Students,

This week, we are changing it up a little bit and giving you all an assignment that will hopefully allow share some of your favorite music with us while also learning tempo vocabulary! Tempo, by definition, means the speed of the beat/pulse used in a piece of music. There are a myriad of tempi used in music. The video link examples in the form link below will help you complete the assignment.

Assignment: Give examples of songs or piece of music (Popular or Classical style) that fits into each tempo category. *No explicit song lyrics, please. Share your songs/pieces in the answer spaces in the form and have this completed by Thursday, April 30. We suggest keeping links in a Microsoft Word/Notes document so you can pace your work and find two per day and only submit the form ONCE. (Thank you, Mr. Crosby, for creating the awesome video content!!)

Tempo Form -Complete April 30

As always, you can also practice your instrument or practice note reading on musicracer.com if you would like additional practice! :)


We will also do the Zoom lessons I emailed your parents about at the end of last week.

6th Grade - Tuesday at 2pm
Please have your instrument, Sound Innovations book, and binder (Jamboree Music)
We will introduce dotted quarter notes in the book

7th Grade - Wednesday at 2pm
Please have your instrument, Essential Elements book, and binder (Jamboree Music, Storm, etc)
We will introduce/review shifting

8th Grade - Thursday at 2pm
Please have your instrument and binder (Night Shift, Jamboree and other older music)
We will introduce 5th position and review vibrato

I will be introducing a new concept with each grade level and will play through some "throwback" pieces for fun! I will also give some time at the end with either a topic of conversation or a game (music related) so that they can be social and end on a fun note. I will email out the Zoom links tomorrow. 

We hope to see you all soon!

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