We are learning:
We want to understand:
We will achieve this by using our:
We started our inquiry by listening to two professional musicians play for us. We reflected on what we knew about professional musicians and had a chance to ask questions to Mr Fernando and Mr Kelly about their experiences playing musical instruments.
This videos will help you to develop your fine motor skills and to warm up before playing the recorder.
Here you can find a selection of some of our best performances:
To help us develop reflective routines we have been discussing musical elements like pulse and dynamics, trying to add expressive content to our performances, inquiring into the concept of artistic intention. We used these worksheets to help us with our creative and reflective thinking:
Besides the development of our instrumental skills, we have been learning about famous instrumental performers. We watched some impressive videos and listened to inspirational advice from some top artists, including pianist Lang Lang, flutist Emmanuel Pahud and guitarist Joe Satriani. Below you can find these videos (playlist) and the listening guide we used in class.
Below you can find tutorial videos for the songs we have been learning. Watch the videos, play along, stop, rewind, re-watch and replay as you need to make sure you understand all the elements and can play the song