Year 5 have been learning to play ukuleles!
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Claves
This week we have been using our brand new sets of claves to tap to a beat. We have explored lots of different ways that we can play the claves.
Folk Music Workshop
On Wednesday, Year 4 were incredibly lucky to host a live music concert from a local group of folk musicians. They learnt about lots of different instruments from a cello to an accordion.
The experience allowed them to listen to a different type of music and they even had the opportunity to join in the performance. Year 4 all really enjoyed this opportunity – which was shown by their beaming smiles throughout.
Singing in Reception
Watch the videos to see all that Reception have been up to in their music learning so far this year.
Nursery
ACE Musicians start their journey in Nursery where they engage in nursery rhyme and songs. Through being imaginative and exploring media and materials children begin to experiment and build confidence in music. Creating their own music performances and engaging in collaborative singing.
Lean on me
Year 4 have been loving their music lessons. They stared their music topic by learning to sing the song ‘Lean on me’ by Bill Withers. Then they learnt a small segment of the song on the chime bars.
-watch them performing here ^
Body Percussion
Year 2 have been enjoying exploring body percussion this half term. They began by observing a choir making the sounds of a storm using body percussion. Then they worked together to compose a short pattern using body percussion.
- Watch their body percussion here ^
Music in 3 year old nursery
Rain has been our focus in Nursery this week. The children were fascinated by the falling torrential rain earlier this week. As we watched the rainfall, we talked about the sound and feel of the rain on our skin and sang rainy day songs. Some of us even made up our own songs using words modelled by Mrs Garden such as pitter, patter, plop!
Allerton CE Primary School performing with Space 2 at the Leeds Playhouse Theatre
Wow! Allerton CE choir and dance were fantastic. They had such fun performing at the Playhouse and being a core part of such a big performance. Well done!
July Musician of the Month
July’s MOTM is CHIC. A dance band from the 70’s. CHIC stripped disco’s sound down to its basic elements; their funky, stylish grooves had an organic sense of interplay that was missing from many of their overproduced competitors. CHIC’s sound was anchored by the scratchy, James Brown-style rhythm guitar of Nile Rodgers and the indelible, widely imitated (sometimes outright stolen) bass lines of Bernard Edwards; as producers, they used keyboard and string embellishments economically, which kept the emphasis on rhythm.
CHIC’s distinctive approach not only resulted in some of the finest dance singles of their time, but also helped create a template for urban funk, dance-pop, and even hip-hop in the post-disco era. They were influential in the world of music and not coincidentally, Rodgers and Edwards wound up as two of the most successful producers of the ’80s. “Good Times” was the band’s most imitated track: Queen’s number one hit “Another One Bites the Dust” was a clear rewrite, and the Sugarhill Gang lifted the instrumental backing track wholesale for the first commercial rap single, “Rapper’s Delight,” marking the first of many times that CHIC grooves would be recycled into hip-hop records. Also in 1979, Rodgers and Edwards took on their first major outside production assignment, producing and writing the Sister Sledge smashes “We Are Family” This success, in turn, landed them the chance to work with Diana Ross where they wrote and produced “Upside Down,” her first number one hit in years, as well as “I’m Coming Out.”
