8th grade.
We'll start with new drum rhythms and a new cup game. Practice hearing and performing rhythms. We'll play songs on the keyboards, guitars and ukeleles. Rhythm reading and note reading. We'll learn some more vocabulary about composing music and start writing original music with nontraditional junk instruments.
7th grade.
Drumming and keyboard review. Note reading review and a new cup game.
We'll begin using a computer program called "Mixcraft" and our first assignment will be making our own cell phone ring tone.
6th grade.
Drumming and a cup rhythm. We'll begin learning to read sophisticated rhythm pattern and expanding our knowledge of note names on the treble staff. We'll make our travel passports for our study of music around the world.