It was a wet day at Wonderland this morning but we managed to put that pet up rainy day energy to good use. First the remaining second grade classes of Ms. Weiss, Ms. McLeod and Ms. Hoffman developed their understand of 8 beat musical phrases by doing some dance improvs to "Hungarian Dance #5" by Brahms.
In third grade recorder we discussed improvisation and focused on pentatonic scales as they occur in American Indian music. We began to learn a Northern California Indian piece taken from a wonderful book I use constantly -- "They Came Singing; Songs from California's History." The goal is to use the song as a platform for improvising in the G pentatonic that is so well suited to the Soprano Recorder.
I'll be posting a video lesson to more fully explain how to do this, so be sure and check back over the weekend, Third Graders.
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