Week of April 13 - 4th and 5th Grade

Hello 4th and 5th grade families! Bummed doesn't even begin to describe how it makes me feel that we can't all be in the same room together singing and playing our instruments. Hopefully a few of the activities below will help to spark your memory of what we were working on in class before COVID-19. For the 4th grade families, this will all be brand new. For the 5th grade families, this will be familiar from last year and will be a good review for what I think I have planned to send out next week.

This new recorder tune has four different parts to it. There are three accompaniment parts and one melody part. If you need one, click here to see or print a copy of your recorder fingering chart.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Click this link to hear all of the recorder parts together and then I'll go over how to break it down into manageable parts. This week we'll only work on the accompaniment or harmony parts. Next week will start to add the melody.

This is a link to the accompaniment parts. All of the letter D's are the note Do. All of the letter T's are Ti. All of the letter F's are Fa's, and so on. Click here to hear what the rhythm will sound like for each note. Echo that rhythm with your voice 2-3 times.

Next, have the accompaniment parts in front of you and listen here to what the first line would sound like if someone was singing it. Sing along with your singing voice.

Below are links to all of the individual accompaniment parts. You can click on each one to hear them individually. The last link is what they will all sound like together. In the C part, all of the So's you see are low So's. We finger those T123/123.

• A part
• B part
• C part
• All Parts Combined

Try and take few minutes to see if you can figure out each part. You don't have to play it as long as the recording is, but 2 or 3 times would be absolutely fine.

I hope that you're all staying healthy! I'll do my best to update the blog a couple times per week, so please take a look. It won't be just lesson, but I'll try to post some "feel good" music posts as well. I'd love to see an email, picture, or comment here on the blog of you being musical at home. Feel free to post!

Mr. S