Recorder Karate

Recorder Karate is a fun way to learn to play the recorder using some ideas from the martial art of karate. All students in years 4, 5 and 6 will be learning to play the recorder at our school as part of the Performing Arts programme.

Click on this link to listen to the pieces that you'll be learning. You will need a username and password which you will be told about in class. http://www.musick8.com/rkdojo/rksounds.php

If you wan't to practice your fingering, here is a useful chart to show you how! Click on this link to go to the web page.

This video shows Year 4 playing their recorders after a couple of lessons:

Fantastic Music Machine

A post over at learningIT , titled "Sound Art", sent me to this video:

"This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the
Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa.
Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from
JOHN DEERE Industries and More.. Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa.
YES, farm equipment!

"It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment,calibration, and tuning before filming this video, but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort.
It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the
University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian."

The Typewriter Song

We've been using GarageBand in ICT...and there are two typewriters in the room....

The Typewriter Song