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Hi Everybody! Wow, you all worked so hard this week! Well done! This week, we started off on the carpet together with a fun rhythm circle. You are getting so good at listening to my drum, and then copying my rhythms! We had some excellent counting too this week! Then we talked about the 7 [...]
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Hi Everybody! It was lovely to see you all again on Tuesday! This week, we began by reminding ourselves all about high bird notes and low whale notes. Then we had a really close look at one of the keyboards. We noticed that there were white keys and black keys. Some of you saw that [...]
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Lesson 10: Yesterday we learnt how to play different amounts of notes going outwards from Middle C, and today, we learnt how to play notes going towards Middle C. You all did a great job at making sure to always have enough room for the notes to come! We then headed to the Practice Room [...]
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Hi Everybody! It was lovely to see you all again on Tuesday! This week, we began with a quick rhythm circle and you tapped out some great rhythms on the drum. Well done! Then we spent some time reminding ourselves all about high notes and low notes. You made some fantastic high sounds and low [...]
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Everyone Together: You all said you had a great time at the Jazz Fest today. Aren’t music festivals amazing?!? They are definitely one of my favorite summer activities! We listened to a few different pieces by a composer named John Cage. He was very well known for his ultra weird music. He even did weird [...]
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Lesson 8: Today, Mr. Bach taught us a very special thing! He taught us how to play double notes on this piano! You had to play high notes at the same time as low notes, and then sometimes you had to play Middle C with a high or low note as well! Great work everyone! [...]
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Lesson 7: We started off the class by reviewing the composers we have learnt about so far, such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. We then had a lesson with Mr. Bach where he got us to play songs with more holding notes! Great work everyone! After our lesson, we went into the Games Room, where [...]
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Lesson 4: Today, we started learning about circle notes. Circle notes are going to replace the picture notes (whale, boat and bird) that we have been using up until now. Circle notes tell us what notes to play by where they are located on the screen. A note that is down low is a whale [...]
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Lesson 3: Long-Short-Short-Long-Long-Long! Today’s class was all about rhythm. Rhythm, is a pattern of long and short beats. A beat, well, is kind a “thump”, a note being played, or anything else that makes a single sound. Your heart beat is a beat that you have always have and probably hardly ever remember! Mr. Beethoven [...]
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Hi Everybody, and welcome to MusIQ Club! Today we began by introducing ourselves, and talking a bit about music. You told me the types of music you like to listen to, and some of you said that you had even played on a musical instrument before! I showed you the keyboards, and for some of you [...]
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Lesson 2: Today, Mr. Beethoven taught us about a very special note. This note is called Middle C, and it is represented by a man in a boat. To find Middle C, you find the middle of the piano, and then the group of two black notes closest to the middle. From there, Middle C [...]
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It was great to meet all of you today! We started off by listening to part of the Moonlight Sonata, which was written by Mr. Beethoven. Mr. Beethoven was alive over 200 years ago, in a time with no cars, television, computers or even electricity! He was a fantastic composer, who kept on writing music [...]
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