The Exploring Music 6 classes of OMS were busy this week! We are excited to share all of our progress with you!
The beginning of the week brought excitement as we continued to learn our final song in our guitar unit "Ode to Joy". Students did a great job learning this tricky piece! We learned the piece all together as a class and then split up into smaller groups to rehearse for our test which took place on Wednesday. This test was a two part test. There was a written section as well as a performance aspect, too! Check ParentPortal to see how your student scored!
The beginning of the week brought excitement as we continued to learn our final song in our guitar unit "Ode to Joy". Students did a great job learning this tricky piece! We learned the piece all together as a class and then split up into smaller groups to rehearse for our test which took place on Wednesday. This test was a two part test. There was a written section as well as a performance aspect, too! Check ParentPortal to see how your student scored!
After wrapping up our guitar unit, students were greeted by a cool video to introduce our final unit of music technology. To check out the video "Ipad Symphony" click HERE. Students were challenged to see if they could figure out how many instruments were comprising the song they were listening to. This was a fun way to kick off our unit working with GarageBand on the Ipads. We spend the day exploring GarageBand and what the program is capable of doing! Ask your student what a Smart Instrument or a loop is. (We learned lots of useful music technology vocabulary this week!)
Next week we will start our first Garageband Project! After a brief lesson on musical form, students will be challenged to compose a song on the Garageband App in ABA form utilizing both loops and Smart Instruments. Be sure to check back next week to see and hear some of our original compositions!
Next week we will start our first Garageband Project! After a brief lesson on musical form, students will be challenged to compose a song on the Garageband App in ABA form utilizing both loops and Smart Instruments. Be sure to check back next week to see and hear some of our original compositions!