6th-8th Grade
Students in grades 3-8 will be working together in their general music classes to create a modern band. In order to participate in our modern band, students will learn to play a song per week on a variety of instruments including: drum kit, body percussion, tambourines, ukulele, guitar, bass, and keyboards.
Students in 6-8 will be choosing the majority of the songs they work on this year, and some of the work is much more individualized.
6th Grade: Students are learning to read notes on the treble staff in order to play melodies on the keyboard. Melodies will include some classical pieces to learn the five-finger c position, and then branch out into popular music including works by Ayo & Teo, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, and 21 Pilots.
7th and 8th Grade: Students are working alone or in small groups on individualized goals for music making. At this point the students have covered all of the basics and have the skills necessary to work more independently. I will rotate through to conference with and go over honing more specialized skills.
The following links are some resources for students who want to practice at home:
Parts of the Guitar -follow this link to review the guitar diagrams and view the differences between acoustic and electric guitars.
Ultimate Guitar is a great resource for tabs, and chords. There are some songs that have just chord symbols, and some that are tabs. The type will be listed to the right of the song title.
Drum kit resources are available here! The link will send you to the games tab on Little Kids Rock where you can build a beat, use the beat boxes, and use tracks to drum along.
Lessons for drums, keyboard, guitar, and a tuner is available for your instruments at home.