YMI Tutor Mr Lowthian has been teaching the keyboard to beginners in classes at P6 and P7. He has made a series of videos and music sheets to help you learn the songs and exercises.
The song sheets can printed onto A4 sheets of paper and placed on top of the key or between the keys and keyboard controls, giving a clear visual crib as how to play. Some of the sheets use just one hand and others both. They have been used with electronic keyboards in the classes but also work on a piano if you have one at home.
There are lots of songs to choose from. You can practice your scales and as you learn some of sheets are written with full notation.
Learning Resources
Open the pages below to see some more videos and download the song sheets
Mr Lowthian has made lots of tunes for you to try but if you have a special requests he might be able to make that song for you… if you ask him nicely.
This week’s Making Music lesson by Mrs Rowan is based on the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley. Start with a warm for your voice and then we will lean the song. Afterward there is a short quiz and some fascinating facts about the song.
Warm Up
Let’s start by preparing to sing with a fun Voice Warm Up video. Once you have learnt the warm up its best to practice it two times.
The Song
Rock Around the Clock!
Learning Resources
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One, Two, Three O’clock, Four O’clock rock Five, Six, Seven O’clock, Eight O’clock rock Nine, Ten, Eleven O’clock, Twelve O’clock rock We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
Put your glad rags on and join me hon’ We’ll have some fun when the clock strikes one We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes two, three and four If the band slows down we’ll yell for more We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the chimes ring five, six and seven We’ll be right in seventh heaven
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When it’s eight, nine, ten, eleven too I’ll be goin’ strong and so will you We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes twelve we’ll cool off then Start rockin’ around the clock again We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote the music for Peter and the Wolf in 1936. It was written as a child’s introduction to the orchestra and was first performed at a children’s theatre in Moscow. Each character in the story is represented by a different instrument or group of instruments.
The story is about a boy named Peter who lives with his grandfather. His Grandfather does not want Peter going out of their garden because there are wolves around but one day Peter goes out, leaving the garden gate open, and sees a little bird. What will happen next…..
YMI Tutor Jenni Borthwick has put together two PowerPoints presentations to explore the music and how the instruments represent each of the characters. There is one resource aimed at Level 1 and another for Level 2
1st level: Primary 2-4 (P2, P3, P4)
2nd level: Primary 5-7 (P5, P6, P7)
Learning Resources
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This popular song comes for the Caribbean and was originally a Haitian Creole song that was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as Yellow Bird.
YMI Tutor Kaela Rowan has made two videos to sing along too and some learning resources looking at the song, where it came from and exploring flags of the Caribbean and surrounding countries.
Below are the song words for you.
Yellow Bird Song
Yellow Bird Up high in banana tree Yellow bird You sit all alone like me Did your lady friend Leave the nest again? That is very sad Makes me feel so bad You can fly away In the sky away You’re more lucky than me.
You’re more lucky than me.
Learning Resources
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The Youth Music Initiative team have created a project to support teachers deliver class Ukulele lessons The YMI tutors come to the school to start the lessons and deliver some CPD for the staff. After a few weeks the of co-delivery, the YMI tutors reduce their input and only come into the school every couple weeks, with the class teacher leading the class in the alternate weeks.
As the project is develops, and has now be changed by the lockdown, we are adding song sheets and videos that can be downloaded and used at home or in the school hubs If you have access GLOW you can see all of them on our YMI Making Music Teams Page.
Words
We have song and chord sheets that can be printed off for all of the songs videos.
To view the words online just click on the link. To download the files right click on the links and then select either:
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