I created this website to help a year 8 class learn how to play ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay. They all spent class time using the resources in the website to independently learn how to play the song on their chosen instrument. It was super easy to create the website on Weebly for free and IContinue reading “‘The Scientist’ – Coldplay”
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Beatboxing Workshop for Newbies
February 27th, LC Beats ran a free beatboxing workshop at City Recital Hall. It was an awesome night learning how to make some basic vocal sounds and rhythmic sequences. We even had a chance to get up on stage and perform with the microphone. It was great seeing a lot of young kids get upContinue reading “Beatboxing Workshop for Newbies”
Music Education Camp
In February, I had an amazing weekend at a music education camp run by some of last years Sydney Conservatorium grdauates and some current students. We had a packed two and a half days of workshops which included musical theatre, dance and movement, arranging, conducting, “what universities don’t tell you”, meditation, beat boxing and composition.Continue reading “Music Education Camp”
Hallelujah Chorus Reimagined…
In class the other day, we had the opportunity to compose our own arrangement of a selection of famous Baroque pieces. My group went with Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. Check out our funky arrangement:
Musical Twister
This is my new favourite thing! I definitely want to try it with a class. https://teachingmusicoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/music-twister/
Creating a Piano Tutorial Style Scratch Project
Using the original template we already had, I edited the pre-existing sprite costumes to look like the following: Using the original template we already had, I edited the pre-existing sprite costumes to look like the following: I later renamed each costume according to one of the notes in the song “Here Comes the Sun” (B,Continue reading “Creating a Piano Tutorial Style Scratch Project”
Large Scale Floor Piano: Freestyle
I finished designing the Scratch project which allows us to play freestyle on the piano. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/342680940/ You can practice playing along at home. Sadly, since you can’t connect up our awesome piano, you will have to stick to using your computer’s keyboard. Here are the assigned keys:
Digital Project – Using Scratch
In order to play audio when the keys on our piano are touched, we needed to code a game using Scratch which, when certain keys were pressed, would play assigned pitches. We were able to find a pre-existing Scratch project which gave us a starting point for our coding: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/342680848/editor Our MVP (Minimum Viable Product)Continue reading “Digital Project – Using Scratch”
Final Composition
UPDATE: I had embedded the wrong video… The full recording is now available. I’ve finally finished my composition! Yay! I hope you enjoy! Check out the full score here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11N5Hbf0JSuvkUyKiql5HCdhIUDDA5WVC
Music Teaching 101 