Counting the beat: Making our own instruments

 So this week for counting the beat(Music) We have been looking at weird and cool instruments merged together.So we got the task to make our own weird instrument. So I new that I wanted the piano then I thought that It would be easy and cool to add the harmonica then I added the drums then the Xylophone. 

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What instrument family does it belong to?

Percussion,wood wind

How do you play it?

With the harmonica you blow into it. For the drums you hit it with your feet.and the piano and the xylophone you hit it with your hands

What type of sound does it play?

Mellow suttle calm high pitched music.

What type of music will it be used for?

Sad music

Counting the beat(making our own music)

 So today for Hurumanu 2 Counting the beat We looked and made our own music with different random things around the class. The first thing we did was talked about what percussion music was and body percussion.

What is Percussion music?

Percussion is music involving drums and other instruments such as gongs, bells, cymbals, rattles, and tambourines. The instruments themselves are also called percussion. ... They are struck to produce loudness, while the other instruments are strummed or blown into, 

Then we looked at some people that made there own music out of things.

Armpit music

Music from his body

We will rock you with hands

Stomp

More Stomp

So then today we got to make our own music out of things. My group Decided to do A beat from Imagine dragons Believer. We used sticks And stamped them on the ground we also used our feet and stomped them on the ground. Also Jordan used A pan And chop sticks to make a sound. 

This is the beat we made I hope you like it. Thank you for looking at my blog.

Counting the beat violin

 So this week for counting the beat we Looked at the violin. We went through The types of violin like the cello, double bass,Viola And violin.

Then We looked at the parts of the violin. I learned some new things about the parts of the violin like That they use Horse tail to use the bow. And that there was a part of the violin bow called frog. Did you know that?

After that we looked at the different styles of the violin (Electric ones)

My favourite is the white one.

Then we listend to some violin and heard some different types of violin sounds that it can make.

This One was diffidently my favourite thing to look at. What about you?

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Counting the beat Orchestra

 So this week for counting the beat we looked at Orchestra Instruments. All the classes Came together and we got to see and hear some cool Orchestra instruments and Learned  some things about orchestra like what Instruments they use and what they sound like and what type of instrument they are. 

Here are some things that we learnt this week. 

So The first thing we did on the slides was we tried to guess all the Orchestra instruments, I challenge you to try and guess them by only hearing the instruments. Then we watched a Orchestra video with Mr Bean in it which was my favourite video. 

Then we looked at the different types of instruments that were the same kind.

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 Like Woodwind,which is a type of musical instrument that makes their sound when a musician blows air into or across the mouth peace. And strings that make sounds by the strings, 

Percussion, includes any instruments that makes a sound when it is hit.

Brass, A musical instruments that produces sound sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the players lips 

 Then lastly we looked at a video that a group made when they were in lock down and they made a Orchestra song over video call which I thought was really cool. 

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Counting the beat guitar

 So Yesterday In counting the beat hurumanu 2 we were looking at Guitars. Mr Mitchell brought in some of his guitars and we looked and Learnt about them. 

We learnt about all the different types of guitars and the difference and sounds they all make. Like The acoustic Guitar sounds good on its own and doesn't need any other equipment but with the electric Guitar it needs other equipment to actually here the guitar because if you dont you wont be able to hear the Electric guitar.

Then we got to have a go on the guitars and I must say that the acoustic guitar is way lighter than the Electric guitar which was quite heavy and The Acoustic guitar had more of a calm sound then the Electir guitar which had more of a metal music Eco sound . 

Then Mr Mitchell Played some songs for us on the acoustic guitar.

Counting the beat

 So at the moment for hurumanu 2 counting the beat we have been learning about music. We have Been learning about what type of music there is, the definition of music, different things that you can make music with ,what  type of music we like, where we can find music and watch some videos of different types of people making music.

So here are stuff that we have done so far.

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What is music? What types are

there? 

Definition: 

Sounds, notes and beats that are put together to express ideas or emotions.

Types: 

Rock and roll, rap, country, hip hop, jazz, blues, lyrical, metal, heavy metal, classical, calm, pop, karaoke, electric, singing, soft

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Where can we find/hear/experience

music?

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• Youtube

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

• Dance music

• Sad music

• jazz

• Hip hop

• Hype

• Rock 

• Pop

• Singing

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

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music

• Diffrent beats and music

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What kind of music do you like?