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hear the silence – every song starts from silence. Remind your choir. Ask them to stand in silence and focus on the sounds they can hear from outside the rehearsal room (wind, cars, children playing, dogs), then ask them to re-focus on the sounds from inside the rehearsal space (breathing, creaking floor, shuffling, throat clearing, doors banging).

sing the same note and disappear – choose a note that everyone can sing comfortably in the same octave for quite some time. Get everyone to stand very close together facing different directions. Mix the usual parts up. Everyone starts to sing on an ‘aw’ as a sustained drone. Tell the singers that after they’ve taken a breath they need to gently ease back into the overall sound. Ask them to match the quality and volume of all those around them. Tell them that you want them to disappear into the sound so it’s not possible to tell who is singing what.

stop conducting – one problem with a choir can be that the singers become so used to someone standing in front of them conducting that they stop taking responsibility for themselves and start to believe they can’t do it without that person guiding them. Without telling the choir, start a song off, gradually stop conducting, then walk off and listen. There will be an initial blip probably, but then they’ll manage fine and begin to listen more to each other. Repeat the exercise, but just give the starting notes and tell them they all have to begin together but without you bringing them in.

Immediate feedback Students see which notes and rhythms they played correctly/incorrectly, receive a performance score, and hear their recording. Repertoire library Only SmartMusic includes 95+ method books, 5,400+ ensemble titles and thousands of solos from top publishers. Practice tools Vital tools – including a metronome, tuner, and the ability to loop sections – are built in and always close at hand. Communication loop Both teachers and students can see each others’ written comments on every assignment and student recording.

"Down, Down Baby" is from the Amidons. SO FUN! Apparently this is a favorite, because it's being sung on the bus!

Mamalama: I learned this in Level 3, and we take it a bit faster than in this video, but it is SO FUN! I even had a student get the last part after just a few listenings. CRAZY!

I am going into my fourth year teaching and my third year at my current school. I feel like each year I do a better job of starting the school year off the right way.

I think that will be interesting to talk with the kids about on the first day.

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TaskYou, either alone or with two to four classmates will plan 5 different trips to attend and critique 5 different pop music performaces around the country and around the world. Two of these events must be outside the US.Your final product will be an Avid binder that includes the following documents:There are 5 components (tabs) to this project for each event:Spotify playlist (email link to class website)In order of attended EventsSchool appropriateLogistics/itinerary sheetMust make sense and be able to implement in real timeMusical Element observation sheetComplete sentence for each of the  element.BeatMeterDynamicsHarmonyMelodyPitchRhythmTempoTextureTimbrFinal ReflectionA 5-sentence paragraph on why you chose this artistA 5-sentence paragraph on why you chose the city.A 5-sentence paragraph on what you learned and found most interesting.

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Introduction

Students will develop itineraries and 

his fun activity takes students on a adventure around the world in search of music, cultures and communication with students from other countries!

Music has existed in some form since the Prehistoric times, and the first likely use of music was a call used to communicate to other members of a family unit or group either for entertainment, spiritual purposes (for example, rain dance chants) or for survival in hunting or gathering situations.(6) Notably, the role of the shaman or healer has been well documented(7) and can be considered analogous to the role of the music therapist today.

Whilst bias and exaggeration is possible in music therapy trials (as with all research), overall music therapy costs less than a drug trial - which often need millions of pounds in support.(32) In addition, drug trials are more likely to be implicated in pharmacological corruption(33), with consequences for patients by virtue of skewing or altering results - as seen with the understatement of the negative effects of Agent Orange, a carcinogenic (cancer-causing) herbicide used in the Vietnam war, by Monsanto.(34)

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Highlight Highlighting lets you denote important information on a page, just like highlighting in a book, but with Diigo, the highlighted text will be conveniently saved to your library as well. There are some important things for me to denote on my recipe. My wife doesn’t like pineapple, my grandfather can’t have eggs or chocolate, and I don’t like coconut very much, so I highlight those items on the recipe to let me know I need to deal with them. Highlight by clicking “Highlight” on the Diigolet. Then select the text you want to highlight. The text will be visually highlighted and the text is now stored in your library. It’s that easy. Click the button again to exit highlighter mode. You can also change the color of a highlight by clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to “Highlight” and choosing a color. Colors are useful for differentiating different types of highlights. I will use a different color for each of the different people I need to consider.

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