September 4th and 5th Grade Music Lessons

 MUSIC GOALS FOR MONTH OF AUGUST:

WELCOME BACK AND GO OVER CLASSROOM RULES

INTRODUCTION ACTIVITY ON FRONT BOARD PER GRADE LEVEL:        MUSIC MATH PROBLEMS, SYMBOLS, NOTES, AND INSTRUMENTS

REVIEW OPTIMISTIC THEME IN CLASSROOM

REVIEW MY FAVORITE THINGS AND DO RE MI'S

PATRIOTIC SONGS

INTRODUCE ELVIS LESSONS

PRACTICE PIRATE SONGS an Soldier Cadence

PRACTICE DRUMS AND STAY ON RHYTHM

GETTING READY FOR 

WEEK 1 LESSON BELOW:

OBJECTIVE: TODAY'S GOAL 

MUSIC MATH

INSTRUMENT: DRUMS

REVIEWL: 

PIRATE SONGS, DREAMS, TREBLE AND BASS

MUSIC MATH PROBLEMS ON WHITE BOARD

ENCOURAGE PLAYING THE BUCKET DRUMS AND HOME

The music instrument of the day 
for the music letter "D" is
DRUM

In American Sign Language,

the letter "D" looks like this.

Show me the letter "D" on one hand

Who can tell me what 

Instrument Family

does the DRUM belong to?

WOODWIND

BRASS

STRING

PERCUSSION

Now let's review some

DRUMS
This is a snare DRUM
like "Snary" the blue Meloditty 
snare DRUM in Taratabong land
You play the snare DRUM with drum sticks.

This is a hand DRUM that you play with your hands
We also call this kind of DRUM a bongo DRUM

Below is a BASS DRUM. 
the word BASS sounds like "BASE"
The Meloditty bass DRUM is the
big pink momma "Drumba" DRUM in Taratabong land
You play the bass (base) DRUM with padded sticks.

A padded stick in music is called MALLET.

D IS ALSO FOR DREAMS

LIKE WHEN MY DAUGHTER SARAH LOUISE SINGS

A MILLION DREAMS

REVIEW TREBLE AND BASS CLEF

QUICK REVIEW ON TREBLE AND 

FOCUS ON BASS CLEFF SONGS

Any notes after the TREBLE CLEF

are your HIGH notes.

Can you see the

 SPACE NOTES?

Space notes land on a SPACE.

To understand the letter names 

to the notes on the spaces

after the Treble Clef on the Staff:

Just remember "FACE" is on the SPACE

         F in FACE is on the bottom 1st space

A in FACE is on the 2nd space

C in FACE is on the 3rd space

E in FACE is on the 4th space

Let's learn more about how

Treble(Trouble) is really TREBLE

Can you see the

 LINE NOTES?

Line notes land on a LINE.

Just remember

Every

Good

Boy

Does

Fine

Because...

they land on a LINE

The following video is about how...

I knew you were TROUBLE

I mean "TREBLE"

Just for fun,

let us now watch the original song called

I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE

by Taylor Swift

See if you can Sing Along 

with Taylor Swift

In the next video,

the CHIPMUNKS are... 

singing this song.

However, 

If you want to watch the full video, 

you can find this in your 

School Canvas Music Lesson by me, 

or you can find it on the 

CMoorekidsongs Blog by me.

So, 

who is talking to the

TREBLE CLEF? 

What is the name of...

this guy, right here?

That's right,

it is the

BASS CLEF

Any notes after the BASS CLEF

are your LOW notes.

The SPACE and LINE notes

after the BASS CLEF

look different 

from the notes

after the TREBLE CLEF

Let us now listen to a song

that is...

ALL ABOUT THAT BASS

CLICK PLAY BELOW TO SING SONG

Just for fun,

Let us listen to a couple of videos

of the real words to...

It's all about that BASS