Incredible website to help with your love of Music!
http://www.musictechteacher.com/music_quizzes/music_quizzes.htm
Ideas for Helping Learn Your Notes!
http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/activitiesgames/games/compose_music.swf
More activities for helping with note names - print for free and practice with a loved one!
http://www.makingmusicfun.net/htm/printit_notename.htm
Treble Clef exercises in Key Signiature and other fun advanced challenges!
Bass Clef Practice - have you shown Mom and Dad your Method book? :0)
Bass Clef exercises in Key Signiature and other fun advanced challenges!
Play Bingo with the Family and practice those rhythms!!! :0)
Advanced Rhythms - can you handle this Bingo?!!!
Treble Clef - are you as fast as you think? :0)
Instrumental Music Assignment #1, (in case you lost yours...) ;0)
Rehearsals:
Day 1, ALL first break: Choir
Day 2, ALL first break: Bell Choir
Thursdays, after school to 4:30: Band
"Sous l'ocean" (Grade 1) :0)
Jazz Musician James Ursel comes to Frost!
Evolution of Jazz (notes from class “Live jazz session”)
• Blues: A great example of early blues is Robert Johnson, perhaps the first to truly establish a style of music consistently known as the blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hqGu-leFc
• Ragtime: Scott Joplin is probably the most “known” composer of this style of early jazz music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q
• Swing: So many greats – Benny Goodman really drew the crowds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM
• Be-bop: Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie – “Bird and Diz”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oozBPG0W90
• Cool Jazz: Miles Davis’ classis session, “Kind of Blue”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSUUFduCdRE
• Fusion: Weather Report featuring the virtuoso bass player Jaco Pastorius – the electric bass changed forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU
• Funk: The Brecker Brothers were the epitome of combing classic jazz styles, blended with fusion concepts but pushing the “groove” machine like no one else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePPKGxqOf8
Other Bands sprung up like “Tower of Power” – less intellectual chord structures, focusing instead on the funk groove as the main point – soooooo good!
• Rap: Miles Davis really in many ways drew the designs for this music – well before it became “Popular/ Mainstream”. Check it out from 1986...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAMJy-PHzKE
• Hip-Hop: Can you see how this music that many of you listen to has its roots in the Blues and evolved through other jazz styles? What will be next?!