Listen to music you don’t normally listen to

Greetings to all,

Being at home during this extended break gives us the opportunity to explore things we don’t normally have the time for.

The Digital Concert Hall is now free for everyone! One of the world's best major symphony orchestra's The Berlin Philharmonic is now streaming their entire catalogue for FREE! www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/news Sign up for a free account and explore! I would recommend one of my favorite composers, Gustav Mahler! All 9 of his complete symphony's are available to stream (I would choose his 5th symphony, for the opening trumpet solo).

YouTube is amazing for finding all kinds of music performances!

Speaking of the Berlin Philharmonic..This is a fun one : Indiana Jones!

This is what you call EXTENDED TECHNIQUE, for the Saxophones! GHOSTBUSTERS THEME!

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 – Boston Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky (1987)

Follow the music with this one! Everything but the electric bass or the saxophone, but, great music! Gustav Holst – The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-16) {Steinberg/BSO}

Did somebody say Meme Music..? OKAY! BABY SHARK IN 10 STYLES

Explore different genres and find music that is not what you usually listen to. Open your mind and ears and try something new, even if it is longer than four minutes! Baroque or classical (yes, they are different), different types of jazz, country...

Or, look for different pieces that feature your instrument as soloist. Listen carefully and notice what you really like.

Happy listening!

Mr. Cohen

Teoria for rhythm fun!

Go to www.teoria.com/en/exercises/

Click on Rhythmic Dictation

– start with the default and press OK to start

– LOOK at the TIME SIGNATURE! The click you hear is the first beat of ONE empty measure. So, if it’s 2/4 time you only get two beats before the rhythm starts.

– try a different tempo. Could be a good opportunity to learn some Italian!

– try different time signatures. the 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 ones are compound meters in which a dotted quarter note gets the beat. So, there’s how many eighth notes in a dotted quarter?

– speaking of dots, if you hear a dotted half note, click on the half note and then the dot which is to the right of the sixteenth note

– listen to what you typed in before you check your answer! Just click on the speaker and it will play again for you

– you can also listen to your answer by pressing that button

– if you make a mistake, put your cursor on the last note and press the backspace button. Erase back to your mistake and enter again.

And there’s more!

Click on Exercises at the top of the page to get to Music Theory

– Click on Reading then Rhythmic Reading

– click OK to start

– look at your time signature, you get ONE MEASURE of clicks before you have to start tapping the rhythm!

– hit any key (not the space bar)

– make sure you hit the return button before the first beat of the next measure at the end

Let’s Go Band!

Mr. Cohen