Music Resources

[Lara]

I added a couple of music resources to the site in the week - a rhythm square and a set of 'chime bars' - using chime bar shaped notes for simple notation. I've just developed the first resource using the chime bars so thought I'd share! The songwriter flipchart uses the bars to display 3 simple melodies on the first page and then on the second page chldren can select these to combine to make a four phrase melody.

Lara

[Margaret Allen]

Hi Lara,

Of the usual high standard - BUT there must be others out there whose total musical repertoire consists of Twinkle Twinkle or on a good day "colours of day" :rolleyes: .

So come on - educate us - how would you use these? You don't have to give an OFSTED accountable lesson plan, but some pointers to us lesser mortals would be good. :cool:

Actually, whilst writing.... and please don't stop loading stuff and don't let this put you off..... BUT is there any way that all flipcharts could just have some pointers on the page notes facility. It is really so that when others see flipcharts in isolation they have a starting place.... ????

Thanks

[sartley]

Hi Lara

I too was impressed and also very interested to know how you would use it. I've attached a variation on your flipchart here which has the sounds of the notes embedded, so, for example, you can click on a note and hear Bflat or middle C. I am sure that all you musicians out there will be able to give the rest of us some good ideas of how this can be used.
Thanks for the idea, Lara! [clap]

[Lara]

Thanks for including the sounds, Sharon - that was my next step but didn't have available resources. Although having just played it on my computer (which admittedly has a rather temperamental sound card) I got some very strange sounds!

I was inspired to create the original flp because one of our Y6 teachers got all excited about creating resources for her lesson and was making graphics 'like those in the book' - we use Music Express. I thought it would be really useful to have all the notes to hand so that if you did want to create a flp with them in they were already prepared - and the children would get used to the same notation.

Her lesson involved the children playing and then making up an ostinato (repeated pattern - for the uninitiated!). She used the chime bar notation to show them the ostinato first and then on a separate page gave them a bank of the same notes to create thier own one which the class then tried out.

I've also used them in a science lesson when reinforcing the link between pitch and length of notes on a glockenspiel - the children are give a set of notes and have to put them in order from lowest to highest - sounds attached would allow them to check if they were right.

I had intended that the notes be drappged into the resource bank for ease of access, but this has produced some rather unusual results - the notes split into several blocks and clicking on them actually appears to delete what is currently on the page and then put a selection of blocks there instead! :confused:

Anyway, hope some of that was clear?!

Lara

[sartley]

Yes it is clear, Lara and a good idea. I wonder if other people are having problems with the sounds? They are very small midi files. I had thought to put them all on a flipchart page, then people could drag them into the resources for future use. If others could verify they sound as they should - ie it should be a chromatic scale (they sound correct on my computer) then I'll create the flipchart, but I don't want to send something which doesn't work!

[Lara (school)]

Sharon - works absolutely fine at school - must be my PC!

Lara

[Margaret Allen]

Music anyone?