Welcome to Music!

We are excited to help you explore your musicality and practice the skills that are the building blocks for all good musicians! Enjoy, explore and most importantly have fun!

Send us videos or pictures of your creations, we would love to feature some of them here!

Week 2 : The History of Hip Hop

1. Watch the Welcome to Distance Learning Music with Ms. Watson

2. Watch the three videos posted, History of Hip Hop, Baby Shark and This is Hip Hop

3. Listen to the two stories, When the Beat was Born and The Story of Rap

4. Make Video of a favorite dance (or make up one), to your favorite Hip Hop song (SCHOOL APPROPRIATE) and submit it!

If you do not have access to a device, tell me what your favorite part of this lesson was, what you like or dislike about hip hop, and if you have a favorite hip hop song! Do you know any instruments that are in hip hop? Let me know!!!

Week 3: Make your own instrument

I want you to look all around your house to make your OWN instrument!!

Play it to your favorite song and submit the video/pictures to me at watsonk@chapelhillisd.org

Watch these videos for inspiration!

1. How to make DIY Musical Instruments for Kids!!

2. 4 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Crafts you can do anytime | Fast-n-Easy | DIY Labs

3. Make Your Own Pre School Kids Musical Instruments - DIY Egg Shakers!

4. Making a Carrot Clarinet!

5. How to make your own pan flute out of straws

Week 4: Instrument Families

Explore the various instruments through the videos.

1. Tell me your favorite instrument family and instrument. (String, Brass, Woodwind, or Percussion)

2. What instrument would you play if you could?

3. Check out the BrainPop game

4. Another fun music game can be found at https://www.incredibox.com/demo/

Week 5: Master the Music Staff

1. Watch this video refresher on the music staff

2. Watch this fun video of a parody of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” but its TREBLE!

3. The music staff is made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces. We make up sentences or words to help us remember the names of the lines and spaces in order.

4. Draw out a music staff by making 5 horizontal (sideways) lines on a piece of paper. Using the video as a guide, start on the bottom of the staff and write your own sentence to remember the names of the lines. Can you come up with a new sentence using the letters E - G - B - D - F?

Here is mine,

Every Good Boy Deserves Fortnite

5. Can you make your own? Draw a music staff on a piece of paper, and draw dots on lines and spaces to create your own words. If you’d like to share your work, take a picture and email it to your teacher.

6. Something else you could do is put some masking tape on the floor to make 5 straight lines, like a staff! Have a parent/grandparent/sibling call out note names and you try to jump to the space! They could even name more than one and you can use both feet. You could also cut out “notes” with paper and place them on the lines.

Week 6: TEKS: 4.1B The student is expected to: use standard terminology in explaining music, music notation, musical instruments and voices, and musical performances.

I can recognize important musical vocabulary in context

Introduction: This week we are going to play bingo! Here is how to play

1. Go to the video of Beethoven Symphony

2. As you watch the video you can see this bingo card. When you see something on the card pop up on the video (ex: strings is on the card and in the video someone playing the violin appears) then you can cross it off! If you don't know a word feel free to look it up! Here is a link to the card, feel free to copy it onto a piece of paper or print it out.

Week 7: TEKS: 4.5C Perform music from various cultures.

I can enjoy music from other cultures.

1. Listen to the video about Gamelan Music. This is a form of music that comes from the island of Java in Indonesia. Notice that many of the instruments that they use are unlike any that we use in America.

2. Complete the Gamelan worksheet (at the top match the words with their definitions and at the bottom fill in the blanks). You can use the Gamelan insturments image below it to help you.

I hope you enjoy this unique music!

Week 8: TEKS: 4.3 B Incorporate basic rhythmic patterns

I can correctly label and count ties and dotted rhythms.

1. Introduction: Attached is a worksheet to help you freshen up your ties and dotted rhythm skills! Remember:

2. Ties- a line underneath a note to another note that “ties” those notes together making the notes values get added together. Ex Quarter note (1 beat) tied to a half note (2 beats) means that you hold both notes together for 3 beats!

3. Dots: A dot added to a note adds half the value of the note to the note. Quarter = 1 beat dotted quarter=1.5 beats.

4. In the answer sheet you will see either 1 te (Jackson folks) or 1 and (Kissam and Wise folks) use. If you do not have a printer feel free to write out your own rhythms.