Counting the Beats - Famous Musician

 Counting the Beats - Famous Musician

Hi today I am going to show you what I have been doing in hurumanu 2 Counting the beat.

We had to name out 10 famous people of the slide, we only got 2 wrong out of 10.

Our class is making a biography about the person you chose. I chose Ariana Grande.

I chose her because she has won so many award 158 through out her life.

Ariana Grande has had a concert before where a bomb was there.

here is a link to here top song.

Counting the Beat - Invent your own instrument

Hello today I am going to tell you what I have been been doing in Counting the beat.

We had to make a drawing about a weird interment that is like if you put a guitar and a drum together. That was an example of what we are doing for the drawing part.

We watched a video of weird instruments, here is the link to the video.

My drawing is about a violin and a it has a bell as the sound hole. It sounds like a guitar but it is louder and it sound kinda like a trumpet.

It is made out of wood and metal, it took me 5 minutes to get an idea.

it is in the string family. it would be an orchestra as a back instrument.

Here is my work:

Counting the Beats - STOMP

Counting the beat.

Hi today I am going to tell you about what I have been doing in counting the beat.

We made our own STOMP video, with random things around the class room, I chose a cone and a stick. my group chose 2 of them chose a Maths counting thing, And the over chose a little counter with beans inside.

We watched around 10 video, about body percussion and STOMP.

What is Percussion?
Percussion is striking one solid object with or against another with some degree of force.

What is Body Percussion?
Body percussion is the art of striking the body to produce various types of sounds.

What is a Percussion Instrument?
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

Here is a link to a STOMP performance.

Here is our video of our performance.

Counting the Beats - The Violin

Counting the Beats - The Violin

Hi today I am going to tell you what I have been doing in hurumanu 2.

We Learn that the violin is in different sizes and shapes. Violins can be electric, that dont have sound holes.

the violin has a few weird feature on the violin and the bow that have weird names, like the frog, the frog is where so you can change the hair. and then there is the sound holes on a violin is a shape of and F. 

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Counting the Beats - An Orchestra

Counting the Beats - An Orchestra

Hi today I am going to show you what I am doing in hurumanu 2.

We have been looking at what an orchestra is and what is in an orchestra.

we had to guess what sounds were playing and what instrument they were.

we got most of them right.

An orchestra is a group of instruments that typically play classical music.

There are four types of instruments in an orchestra: 

• Woodwind - is a types of instruments, that you can make sounds out of when you blow in or over the instrument.
• Brass - A brass is types of instruments, that make sounds when you make a vibration with you're mouth in them.
• Percussion - is an instrument, that make sound you hit or shake the instrument.
• Strings - Is different types of instruments, that make sound when you go over the strings on the instrument.

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Counting The Beats: The Guitar

Counting The Beats: The Guitar

Kia Ora today I am going to show you what I done in hurumanu 2.
We saw the teacher guitars and electric guitars, he showed us some songs that have guitars in them.

There are loads of different types you can learn.

There are different types of strings you can put on the guitar such as nylon and steel strings.

What do you know about the guitar?

Some are electric
They have strings
They make music
Made out of wood
It’s a musical instrument
Stan Walker and lots of other singers play the guitar
Mr Mitchell plays the guitar
They are tuned instruments
There are lots of different types

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On a guitar there are sound hole that make the sound so you can make music. 

Tuning keys are on all types of guitars even the electric guitars, tuning keys are keys that make your guitar sound, the correct way.

Guitars can come in different types of shapes such as travel, arch top and jumbo. 

Counting The Beats- ukulele and Recorder

Counting The Beats- ukulele and Recorder 

Hi today I am going to show you what I have been doing in hurumanu 2.

We have been looking at the ukulele and the recorder. Today we saw some recorders, yesterday we saw some ukulele, the Teacher brought in 5 ukulele in total.

There are different types of ukulele and recorders that you could get.

On the ukulele there are 4 strings but on a guitars there are 6 string.

The ukulele has a sound holes that is on a guitar too but the sound holes are different sizes.

What do you know about the ukulele?

Stringed instrument
4 strings - nylon
Instrumental art piece
Related to the guitar family
Came from Hawaii
It has a sound hole
There are lots of different types and sizes

What do you think about the ukulele?

Most people don’t know much about ukuleles

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Counting The Beats - Music

Hello today I am going to show you what I have been doing for hurumanu 2.
We learnt about different types of music. and where we can find music.

Here are the questions we had to answer:

Where can we find/hear/experience music?

• Spotify
• Public toilets
• Radio
• Social media
• Movies
  
  
  
• TV programmes
• Concerts
• CDs
• Speakers
• Youtube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to? 

• Dance music
• Sad music
• Hip hop
• Rap

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

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• How to make different types of music
• How to play an instrument
• Learning about a range of instruments
• Different types of music