8th grade.
We are reviewing piano skills and learning to play the song Happy Birthday, learning a triple meter cup rhythm and making music with bucket drums. Quiz next week on the eight vocabulary words we're learning as part of our
Funky Junky Music Project.
7th Grade
We're beginning to play ukelele. The chords, C, F and A minor. We are also learning to play the C major scale. We are learning a cup rhythm that accompanies Santana's "Oye Como Va" and next week we will begin learning how to use the computer music mixing program called MixCraft.
6th grade
We're learning the cup rhythm that everyone wants to know, but we're playing along with Todd Rundgren's "I Wanna Bang on my Drum all Day."
Starting to learn piano and basic rhythm reading. We are also learning a few basic rhythms on the conga drums. Chorus and band have started and kids with new band instruments should schedule six private lessons in the next three weeks.