Monthly Archives: February 2013

Issue 78: Welcome to the Jungle

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

This week was half term for me. Usually that means a day of sleeping resting, a couple of days of frenetic house work, a day of planning, admin, paper work, and maybe half a day of teaching (exam candidates who suddenly … Continue reading →

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Issue 78: Bach; The Crab Canon and the Mobius Strip

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

I’ve always enjoyed mobius strips. We used to make them when I was young – a “wet Sunday afternoon” activity in the days before computer games and mobile phones. Well, to be totally frank, in the days before home computers … Continue reading →

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Issue 78: The Smithsonian Museum Resources

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

This amazing instrument seems to be a brilliant combination of Junk and Precision Engineering. Watch, listen (turn your sound on!) and marvel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uuA7fG58KI I apologise if you have come across this wonderful video already – but I only discovered it a … Continue reading →

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Issue 77: Welcome to the Jungle

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

I’ve chosen birds as the picture that ends each post this week; every day as I have loaded the car with instruments for the day (a ukulele, descant and treble recorders, a repinque drum and whistle for samba, and a … Continue reading →

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Issue 77: Bach and a Labyrinth

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I was teaching a nice little minuet in a piano lesson the other day, and it struck me how much it had in common with walking a labyrinth. The thing is, unlike a maze, a labyrinth doesn’t have dead ends, … Continue reading →

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Issue 77: Can you can-can?

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

I was looking for some more ideas to use with boomwhackers, and tripped across this: http://toetappingmusic.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/play-can-can-on-boomwhackershand-chimes/ I thnk that the way he has developed the notation is pretty neat – each pitch gets their own sheet, and played on the … Continue reading →

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Issue 77: A week of djembe classes

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

I spend a large proportion of the week as a primary school Wider Opportunities music teacher. The instruments I teach vary from year to year. At the moment I am teaching 6 different djembe classes, in different schools. (I also teach 4 different … Continue reading →

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Issue 76: Welcome to the Jungle

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

This week I have played a tricky pulse and rhythm game with year 5 and 6, taught three classes of ukuleles to play the chord G and learned about singing roads from the Top Gear programme! If you are after … Continue reading →

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