Mobile Music at Clonea Power NS

Hello to all the students in Ms O Brien's class. I hope you are well. I hope too that you put a recorder or whistle in the bag going home. Over the next few weeks, I will post some videos to help you to learn to play your wind instruments and ways of writing down and following the notes we play. Here are the first two videos. Tune in next Monday for the next two installments

Every moment in the music classroom is previous but it seemed even more so this week. The news came through that schools would be closed for a while.  Juniors learned a new action song, My Hat it Has Three Corners. Intermediates learned a new note in their wind instruments and Seniors learned three new one finger Ukulele chords and we had a mini St Patrick's Day celebration and there was time for a few fiddle tunes. Here is what we got up to this week. Intermediates: Everyone in Ms O' Brien's Class has been issued with a recorder or tin whistle. Here are some of the exercises we have done in the last two classes. Try them at home. First get comfortable with the three upper notes BA and G. Then try our new note E  The fingering is the same for these notes on both instruments but if you have a recorder you must cover the hole at the back with your thumb.    Bill Was a Bandit Big Bad and Bold Burst in the Bank and Stole All the Gold  Ta titi Ta Ta Ta

Ms O Brien's Whistlers  Lots of fun today at Learn and Explore Music Programme at Clonea Power NS Senior Group Percussion Special We added shakers, djembe, bongo drums and triangles to the hymns for the forthcoming Ceremony of Light Spirit Anthem  Metre: 3 Beats in a Bar Tempo: Allegro Quite fast 120 bpm beats per minute ie 2 per sec Tonality: Minor Timbre: Drums  1 2 3  First Beat Palm centre 2/3 fingertips at edge Shakers Shake on Beat 1 Dynamics: piano Christ Be Our Light  Rhythm Section Metre: 3 Beats Temp o:  Moderato  slower Tonality: Verse Minor Chorus Major Verse tacet ( Silent) except triangle on word 'Light' Chorus Timbre Triangle, Drums Watch for the rallentando on the backing track (slowing down) keep Shakers  more vigorous shake on beat 1  lighter shake on beats 2 and 3 Clonea Power Rappers Rallentando / Ritardando  Italian words for slowing down I heard some of the cool raps composed by 6th class TO DO : Make your own s