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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Issue 25: Welcome to The Music Jungle
Sorry – I’m a bit late this week! The last week before the half term break suddenly filled up with extra events, culminating in helping with cooking a supper for forty people on Friday night. Here we go; Here is a simple … Continue reading
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Issue 25: Drumkit Samba
This is a simple rhythm to teach, and surprisingly effective. If you don’t have a set of samba instruments, try it anyway; just substitute other percussion. The rhythm patterns repeat over 8 counts; Surdo (bass drums) plays on beats 1, 5 … Continue reading
Issue 25: Mardi Gras – 21st February
In many countries “Pancake Day” is known as Mardi Gras; literally “Fat Tuesday”. It is the day before the period of fasting before Easter, called Lent. The idea is to use up all your meat, fat and eggs, which are … Continue reading
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Tagged carnival, home-made instruments, keystage1, keystage2, percussion
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Issue 25: Pancake Day – 21st February
The supermarket shelves have been filling up with Easter Eggs since the beginning of the year; so far I have managed to avoid eating any yet. I’m in no hurry to get started on Easter as the Christmas season has only … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, keystage, keystage1, Pancake Day
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Issue 24: Welcome to The Music Jungle
For a person who spends their working lives teaching people to maintain steady a pulse and play accurate rhythms, bashing away at a computer keyboard is a highly unsatisfactory aural experience. The words get hammered out with little attention to phrasing, … Continue reading
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Issue 24: Quotations in Praise of Silence
There have been a number of quotations come my way recently concerning silence, or being silent; “The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.” ~ pianist Aflred Brendel, KBE (I never realised that before…. I don’t do … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, endings, quotations, silence, twitter
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Issue 24: Recording and Playback and Piano Lessons
Having a quick and easy method of instantly recording and replaying music is a valuable teaching tool which I sometimes use during piano lessons, to illuminate specific points. Sometimes, hearing particular issues, rather than discussing them, is a much more effective … Continue reading