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QUARTER 1:
7th and 8th grade students learned some basic skills on Modern Band instruments including acoustic guitar, electric bass, and drums. Students worked on forming correct chord hand positions and basic strumming on the guitar and finger-picking on the electric bass. They also learned the basic back beat on the drums, which is the foundation for most pop and rock songs.
QUARTER 2:
7th and 8th grade students continued their Modern Band studies by choosing a song and preparing it for performance at Stone's first annual Battle of the Bands concert. Videos of their Battle of the Bands performances can be found HERE.
Bucket Drumming Final Project
Bucket Drumming Final Project
For the final project of our bucket drumming unit, students picked a song of their choice to learn and perform in an informal "informance" during music class. Some students utilized our subscription to BucketDrumming.net to find their song, others chose a song they enjoy and created their own bucket drumming patterns. It's exciting seeing the students transferring their skills into new material!
Quarter 3:
We are thrilled to welcome Ayodele Drum and Dance back to Stone to work with our 7th graders on Friday mornings. Ayodele is bringing a culturally enriching West African dance and live drum experience to our school with energizing workshops including live drumming designed to intrigue our students’ minds, move their bodies, and feed their soul.
PXL_20220218_144710703.mp4Quarter 4:
Quarter 4:
In this quarter, 7th graders will demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life, and explain or show how media artworks form new meanings, knowledge, situations, and cultural experiences.
Spoken Word Poetry - I Am From
Spoken Word Poetry - I Am From
Our identity is influenced by our life experiences and the people we meet. 7th graders used inspiration from the poem, "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon to create their own version of the poem highlighting their own identities. Then, they recorded themselves reading the poem and added backing tracks they made in Soundtrap to create an accompanied spoken word poem performance.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J75o-h0Kty5Unt-ZMIv5j9oJ1Or6jXXY/view?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_nla9045Muw9wYh3o8ObU-pQybjEJgf_/view?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bmWSk7sgAvJoXTiIfEoVGyi8nOe9rwYR/view?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mtOYVPK_AfELpDajb9Wea78MlV0sD8Mq/view?usp=sharing
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