MATB Book 1 – Page 2 – Mr. G's Music Stuff

January 9, 2021January 12, 2021

I Lost A Tooth

Introduction

Today’s song is about an important “rite of passage.” That means something that happens to everyone as they grow up.

Losing a tooth!

Have you lost a tooth yet? Some kids start losing them when they are 4, and some don’t start until they are 6 or 7! Something really amazing about losing a tooth is that it is sort of like your first step toward being a grown-up! After all, your grown-up teeth replace the teeth you lose. Those are the ones you’ll have forever. Isn’t that amazing?

Video

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano

Piano Challenge Version

Ukulele

Guitar

Recorder

Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

January 9, 2021May 30, 2021

The Farmer In The Dell

Introduction

This rhyme was first recorded in Germany in 1826, as “Es fuhr ein Bau’r ins Holz”. It was game, with a farmer choosing a wife, then selecting a child, and a maid. This was probably taken to America by German immigrants, where it next surfaced in New York City in 1883, in its modern form and using a melody similar to “A-Hunting We Will Go“.

Video

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano

Piano Challenge Version

Ukulele

Guitar

Recorder

Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

January 2, 2021May 23, 2021

Frère Jacques

Introduction

This is a beautiful song in French. It is usually sung as a round, meaning that it is sung by more than 1 person starting at different times. When sung that way, it is even more beautiful.

I’ve posted some videos down below to show how this works. Make sure to check them out.

Video

Singing In A Round

Try singing Frère Jacques as a round by singing along with this video. Sing along with the singer on the left in the pink sweatshirt each time. She will start at a different time each time they sing the song.

Just watch and listen the first time.

Here are the words:

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques
Dormez vous, dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines,
Din din don! Din din don!

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano

Piano Challenge Version

Ukulele

Guitar

Recorder

Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

January 2, 2021January 5, 2021

Whistle

Introduction

This is a fun song from a movie called Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. It’s a song about how much music helps make it more fun to do something, even something that can be boring, like cleaning your room! Try it. It helps to whistle while you work! If you can’t whistle, that’s ok. Singing, humming or just listening works too!

Just like the song before it, Ode to Joy, this song uses the fifth finger, your pinky, for the first time. There is a new symbol in this song called a flat.

It looks like this and it does something to the note that it comes right after it.

When you see this symbol before a note, it means that instead of playing the key that you normally play for that note, you play the note that is halfway down to the note below it. That is the black key.