A fun American folk song...
Try adding each of the three rhythms!
This is a song about a vagabond who stumbles upon a deserted house only to find it not deserted at all!
See is you can find some thing around the house to add the ostinato (repeating pattern) E - D - C - B.
Learn the solfege hand signals while singing the classic "Do Re Mi" from "The Sound of Music".
Performed by Bruno Herrera
This is one of my favorite songs by Stevie Wonder.
This version focuses on holidays and the poetic meaning of the song.
We'll look at the time signature and key signature by singing the same song in 4 different ways: in major and minor, as well as 4/4 and 6/8 time.
Along the way, we'll try to visualize the music in a way that you can really see and hear how the key signature and time signature affect the song.
The Water is Wide is a traditional Scottish folk song that tells of the progression of love from something that is yearned for and fought for, into something that grows deep and lasting, until finally fading into memories past.
If you have a piano or keyboard at home, see if you can play along with the notes on the screen!
Learn to read rhythms with this song!
Take a look at how the half note relates to the quarter and eighth notes.
The steady beat is represented by the boxes, and the rhythms are represented as the notes inside the boxes.
Counting the number of boxes each note uses is a great way to remember how many beats the note is worth.
This Land is Your Land is a Patriotic song by Woody Guthrie.
What makes this song so great is that it affirms that this great country belongs to all of us... and that we should take care of it.
It has repetitive lines that you can play a cup-rhythm line and a xylophone line to.
See if you can play and sing at the same time!
This is a fun three note song that goes with the Sol Mi La Challenge video, so try the two together!