Happy summer, guys and gals! Here’s a song by the Beatles for those of you that are still checking in here!
Twist and Shout by The Beatles
4th and 5th graders, here’s the song we worked on in class. It’s a quick change, but oh-so worth it!
Intro to Tablature / Ode To Joy
Tablature is an easy way to learn new melodies on the guitar. A nice example we learned in class was ‘Ode To Joy’ by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
To get the file we used on the smartboard, click here.
For a more detailed version that has the notes included, click here.
For more on tablature, look at this link:
http://www.hotfrets.com/lesson_details.asp?LID=15
Enjoy!
Bravo!
All of you wonderful kids in chorus made me very proud tonight at the CDEC conference. You should be very proud of yourselves.
Even though there was less room for us to stand than I thought there would be, you made the best of it and you did great!
You sang ‘Man In The Mirror’ very well and it always makes me smile to hear your voices all together, thank you all for your effort, energy and voices.
Encore!!
– Mr. G.
They All Laughed
They All Laughed is a song that is considered a ‘Jazz Standard’, that means that it’s a song that everyone who likes Jazz knows about and most people like. It was written by two brothers named George and Ira Gershwin. Ira wrote the lyrics, he was a lyricist, and George wrote the music.
It’s one of those songs you have to know if you’re going to call yourself a jazz musician. Kind of like all the things you have to learn in 1st grade in order to call yourself a 2nd grader. In fact, what I just did, relating something you know about to something you might not know about to help you understand it is called using simile. That’s something that Ira Gershwin did in the lyrics of this song.
When Ira relates how the couple in the song are still together even though nobody thought they would be, he is using simile to connect it to the stories of the inventors he talks about earlier in the song.
Here’s some more info on those inventors and pioneers:
Milton Hershey and his Hershey Bar
Henry Ford and The Model T (The ‘Tin Lizzie’)
OH! I almost forgot! Here’s a recording of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘They All Laughed’ and the lyrics.