The pupil iPads come with Garageband built-in and tutor Jenni Borthwick has made online lessons to learn how to use this great resource. She has made these two initial lessons, with a part 1 and 2, that will introduce your class how to play their first tunes.
The teaching videos can be accessed in class or at home as part of your blended learning. Further Garageband lessons can be found on our YouTube channel or YMI Team group Making Music.
Video Lessons
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 2A
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 2B
Learning Resources
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For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW all the videos, audio, pintable’s and teacher sheets can be downloaded from our YMI Making Music team Many more Garageband lessons can be found in theIpad for Musicchannel.
Use the code wjimn8lto join the team if you are not already a member.
On our Resource Page you can find the songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
The pupil iPads come with Garageband built-in and tutor Jenni Borthwick has made online lessons to learn how to use this great resource. She has made these two initial lessons, with a part 1 and 2, that will introduce your class how to play their first tunes.
The teaching videos can be accessed in class or at home as part of your blended learning. Further Garageband lessons can be found on our YouTube channel or YMI Team group Making Music.
Video Lessons
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 1A
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 1B
Learning Resources
To download files right click on the links and then select either:
For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW all the videos, audio, pintable’s and teacher sheets downloaded from our YMI Making Music team Many more Garageband lessons can be found in theIpad for Musicchannel.
Use the code wjimn8lto join the team if you are not already a member.
On our Resource Page you can find all our songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
The YMI team have produced some resources about the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who wrote some of our most well known songs and poems. He is remembered every year on the 25th January when people around the world celebrate his works on ‘Burns’ night. His most famous work ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is traditionally sung at midnight around the world when the New Year begins. Burns grew up and lived in Aryshire and was just 37 years old when he died. He wrote a lot of poems in Scots, such as the lovely To a Mouse.
“Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie”
You can listen to the tutors sing some of his songs, sing along yourself and learn to play them on your iPad . We have added a few of the songs into in this post. and for teachers who can access our GLOW site we have several others you can explore.
If you would like to learn some more about Burns here is a great worksheet for Primary pupils, called Burns for Weans (or children in Scots).
For the winter term we have created a lesson to learn Jingle Bells in GarageBand.
The song was written by James Lord Pierpont, under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. We are not entirely sure of its first use, perhaps it was sung by a Sunday school choir. It did not have an initial connection to Christmas, but has become one of our most common pieces of music played at Christmas and the holiday season. It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder and it is believed to be the first Christmas record.
It played in space in 1965 by the Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Shirra. On December 16, 1965 they sent this report to Mission Control from their spacecraft.
‘Gemini VII, this is Gemini VI. We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. He’s in a very low trajectory traveling from north to south and has a very high climbing ratio. It looks like it might even be a … Very low. Looks like he might be going to reenter soon. Stand by one … You might just let me try to pick up that thing.’
Have a listen to see if you can understand who they think they can see out of the window.
Words
Before we all had cars it was common in parts of America to add bells to horses’ harnesses to let other travels know you are coming, as the snow could dampen the noise of the horses hooves . The rhythm of the tune mimics a trotting horse’s bells. Below are the modern version of the words we use today.
Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
There are a series of 10 short videos that lead you though the project. We have added two of them here but the rest are in the our YMI YouTube Channel iPad playlist
Jingle Bells – An example of how it should sound when finished
Learning Resources
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You can access the 10 video in three ways. If you have access to the schools GLOW network then all the lesson video’s are in the Making Music Team pages, or in the Making Music Sharepoint folder.
For SBC practitioners with access to Glow, join our Making Music Team pages. Use the code wjimn8l to get immediate access
Mrs Borthwick has created a lessons to play the Addam’s Family Theme in GarageBand.
The Addams Family was a fictional household created by the American cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938. The Addams Family originally included Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, close family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama, their butler Lurch, and Pugsley’s pet octopus Aristotle.
Drawing by Charles Addams
There are a series of 10 short videos that lead you though the project. We have added two of them here but the rest are in the our YMI YouTube Channel iPad playlist
Learning Resources
To download files right click on the links and then select either:‘
You can access the 10 video in three ways. If you have access to the schools GLOW network then all the lesson video’s are in the Making Music Team pages, or in the Making Music Sharepoint folder.
For SBC practitioners with access to Glow, join our Making Music Team pages. Use the code wjimn8l to get immediate access
Mrs Borthwick has created a lessons exploring Beethoven ‘s 9th symphony to create a track in GarageBand.
This piece was the first ever Choral Symphony, written for symphony orchestra, vocal soloists and choir. Beethoven conducted it’s premiere in Vienna and 1824. The last part of the symphony uses a poem by Friedrich Schiller called Ode to Joy. The message of the poem is that mankind should live in peace and harmony with each other.
Before you go ahead with this project make sure you have looked at the Ode to Joy Project Introduction in the Learning Resources section. You will also need to watch and or listen to the clips that are linked in that file.
There are a series of 10 short videos that lead you though the project. We have added two of them here but the rest are in the our YMI YouTube Channel iPad playlist
Links and Additional Learning
Beethoven the Puppet will tell you a little about his life and work in a short fun video here.
You can hear more about how Beethoven’s music has been used in pop music and film here.
Watch an unusual and exciting performance by a flashmob orchestra. Keep watching as the music starts small and builds into something amazing.
Learning Resources
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