BY RUTH HARTENECK, EDITED BY ARTHUR LOCKETT
SECTION 1: Videos 1-7 Keyboard. Videos 8-9 Half Steps Guitar & Trombone
SECTION 2: Videos 10-20 Learn to Read and Write Music
SECTION 2 EXTRA: Videos 21-24 Artistic Fun
SECTION 3: Videos 25-37 Count the Value of Notes.
Homemade Musical Instruments
Introducing the purpose of these videos and your teacher
Musical Shorts 1: Find C
Musical Shorts 2: Find F
Musical Shorts 3: Higher and Lower, Sharps and Flats
Musical Shorts 4: Other White Keys
Musical Shorts 5: Black Keys
Musical Shorts 6: Chromatic and Enharmonic
Musical Shorts 7: Introduction to half steps on the piano keyboard
Introducing the note head, stem, flag and beam
How to write sharps, flats and naturals
Introducing the nine notes that take up the lines and spaces on the treble clef staff.
Introducing the nine notes that take up the lines and spaces on the bass clef staff.
Showing Middle C as the link between treble and bass clefs. Laying out the entire spectrum of notes on both clefs.
Make a work of art with what you have learned
Getting Fancy Here!
Practice Bass Clef, especially if you want to play the trombone, the cello, the bass, or the piano!
Use your imagination and make something cool with the Bass Clef.
Rhythm defined as revealed by counts, accents, silences, and division of the beat.
Pulse and Rhythm are demonstrated together. Watch out for a mistake!! Make sure that you can identify it when it happens. It is pointed out, but you should be sure that you understand it.
This video shows note values, but without reference to counting
This video explains rest values and how to draw rests.
How to lengthen the value of notes by adding dots after them.
For very beginners, you can use words to show division of the beat. Later, there is another video showing how to do this using counts.
This video covers only 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4. Demonstrates rhythm without notes, notes without rhythm, and the combination of the two, to show the importance of the time signature.
The right way to keep track of what you're playing is with counts. So, let's dispense with those "huckleberry ice cream pies" and do this the universally accepted way by counting.
What happens when you change the bottom number of the time signature to a 2
What happens when you change the bottom number of the time signature to an 8
Spice it up a little, students! Use dotted notes, or start on the "and" part of the count instead of the number part of the count. Use a partial measure (called upbeat) to begin a piece of music.
Make a note last longer by using a tie.
Build your own musical instrument out of glasses, bowls, even flower pots around the house! Play some tunes.
An easier version with fewer glasses and bowls including instructions for playing some tunes.
Build your own musical instrument using bottles and water, and then play a few tunes on it!