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Although this website was created during the pandemic if 2020, I am happy if it is used beyond for at home or class exploration!
Mrs. Smeall/Mme Smeall
music challenges!
music challenges!
-Song Search - find a few songs that make you want to: dance ♪ sing along ♪ run faster/motivate you ♪ relax
-Making a wind instrument - something that makes a sound with the air you provide: Bottle Flute ♪ Carrot Clarinet ♪ Harmonica ♪ Kazoo ♪ Pan Flute
-How you can see sound - 3 science expiraments for kids
-Thinking about the emotions in the movie Inside Out can you find a song that matches each of the characters?
-pitched water glass experiment
-Using things that are found in the home, try to make a mini drum kit that has 4 different sounds - high, medium, low, very low.
-Try to find a collection of 10 songs that when you listen to them, you can't help but sing out loud - you could even karaoke with friends
-Find a band, artist or movie that you enjoy and listen to the whole album!
Movement to music
Movement to music
Movement to music is different than dance as the latter is often choreographed.
-Top Trending Dance Moves to try
-Baby Shark (how big or small can you make the movements?)
-Zumba Kids - Minion Dance
-Move it to the Sounds (Jack Hartmann)
-Can't Stop this The Feeling (by Justin Timberlake - Dancing with 'the Fitness Marshall')
-The Evolution of Dance! How much do you know? Recognise? Have done? Can copy??
-The Hand Wash: Using your creative genius, make a new dance move called the 'hand wash'! Try to time your dance move to the music in the link here and teach it to your family members :)
Instrument play alongs
Instrument play alongs
Using whatever you have at home, be it instruments that are purchased, borrowed or made, these videos are something you can play along to by copying or making up your own rhythms to go with :)
Backtrack playalong (your choice of instrument and rhythm to play)
Back in Black (ACDC - metal shaker, wood shaker, sticks, hands) ♪ Uptown Funk (Bucket drumming)
Fanga Alafia (drum/bucket, metal object, something low, shaker)
Pizzicatto playalong ♪ Snow Day ♪ Nutcracker
William Tell (instrument play along) ♪ Angry Birds (any instrument - hands included)
Sweet Beats with chopsticks (easier) ♪ Beet Avocado with chopsticks or hands (harder)
Into the Unknown (hardest)
Acapella Group Videos
Acapella Group Videos
An acapella group is one that uses only their voices to create music. Most often in one group there is a beatboxer, soprano, alto, tenor and bass vocalist.
Straight No Chaser - The Lion Sleeps Tonight ♪
I'm Yours/Somewhere Over the Rainbow
The Filharmonic - All of Me
Peter Hollens - Epic Hand Washing Song ♪ Epic Dreamworks Movie Medley ♪
BYU Vocal Point - Beauty and the Beast & You Raise me Up
Voice Play - Disney Heroes ♪ Road Trip ♪ Just Sing ♪True Colors ♪ Moana Medley
Pentatonix (PTX). Can You Feel the Love Tonight? ♪ Bohemian Rhapsody ♪ Jolene ♪
Online concerts
Online concerts
Many artists and groups are releasing at home concerts that are being shared with their fans and the public. In this section will be links to, or information about, online concerts.
Tiny Desk Concerts:
Sesame Street ♪ The Lumineers ♪ Taylor Swift
Together at Home Concert:
I'm Still Standing (00:58 start Elton John Live), Black and White (Niall Horan), Stand by Me (Johan Legend & Sam Smith)
Raffi (full concert)
What a Wonderful World (C. Caballeo & S. Mendez) ♪ Lean on Me (S. Wonder)
Colorado Symphony Ode to Joy
ABC did a family sing along:
Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast), Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), We're All In This Together (High School Musical) ,
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Cinderella), You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cats - Memory (start at 00:25) Phantom of the Opera - All I Ask of You (starts at 00:19)
with London Symphony Orchestra
New Victor Theatre Arts Break - An online resource with links for live feeds and recorded videos on the topics of: family activities, movement, percussion, puppetry and magic. Please note that this website requires a log on account that is free sign up (you can use Google or Facebook).
Orchestra Related
Orchestra Related
Simply Three (strings group) Wake Me Up ♪ Africa
The Typewriter - (starts at 0:30)
The Philharmonic Winds Let's Get Loud/Party Rock Anthem/Gangham Style (starts at 45 seconds)
Brooklyn Duo Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka) & Take on Me (A-ha)
Epic Orchestra Love Story (Taylor Swift), Viva La Vida (Coldplay), Pokemon Theme ♪ I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing (Aerosmith)
Perfect (Ed Sheeran), We are the Champions (Queen)
Kaleidoscope Orchestra Tribute to Avicii. Skip to 1:40 for the music to start.
GAGA Symphony Orchestra Wrecking Ball & Watch Out for This ♪ Shape of You & Gallway Girl ♪ Good Times
Puppets Play the Cello - When a musician gets stuck at home with an instrument and her puppets, things get interesting.
Toronto Symphony Appalachian Spring from home
Musicals (video highlights)
Musicals (video highlights)
Footloose
Final Scene - Footloose (Original 1984 vs. Remake 2011)
Annie
Hard Knock Life (1982 original) ♪ Hard Knock Life (1999) ♪ Hard Knock Life (2014)
Mamma Mia
Hairspray
Mary Poppins Returns
The Little Mermaid full musical
Matilda the Musical:
Aladdin:
Friend Like Me (1992) Friend Like Me (2019) Friend LIke Me (Broadway)
Prince Ali (1992) Prince Ali (2019) Prince Ali (Broadway)
Dear Evan Hansen:
Only Boys Aloud (all-boys choir) - You Will Be Found
One Voice Children's Choir - You Will Be Found
Pentatonix - Waving Through a Window
The Greatest Showman:
Original Motion Picture - The Greatest Showman (Movie) ♪ Lyric video - This Is Me
From Now On (WOS Singers - tribute to NHS Workers)
On Netflix you can find Shrek the Musical!!
TED talks & the science of music
TED talks & the science of music
- K/1/2
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) 'Sounds Interesting'
Episode 1 ♪ Episode 2 ♪ Episode 3 ♪ Episode 4 ♪ Episode 5 ♪ Episode 6
High and Low Experiments ♪ What is Sound? ♪ Sound and the Ear
- 3/4/5/6/7
How to Translate Feeling into Sound
How to Practice Effectively - for anything
Sounds of Science ♪ How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain
A Different Way to Visualize Rhythm - John Varney
Musical websites, apps & games
Musical websites, apps & games
Here you will find a new form of digital music interaction introuduced on a weekly basis to try while you are at home. My intention is to have no-cost or low-cost games that students, and adults, can try at home.
Vancouver Symphony (Interactive and videos from the VSO)
Sphynx Kids (online music games)
Incredibox Application (Free for a variety of platforms)
An application where you can modify the voices of chraracters to create different sounds and create loops of sound (ostinatos) that make music!
Drum Nuts - virtual drum sets to try at home
Classics for Kids! (a great online website with a variety of lessons and games for young musicians of all ages in a variety of musical subjects!)
PBS Kids - Music Games ♪ Staff Wars ♪ Chrome Music Lab
français
français
Maternelle à 2ième
Les poissons gigotent
Telequebec TV Website with links
3ième plus
Tout!
Papaoutai (Stromae - original) ♪ Papaoutai (Pentatonix remake)
L'arbre est dans ses feuilles (Celine et Zachary)
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