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Music Rhythm Tutor

Movie Listening Guide

Below is a listening guide for the Bagpipes and the tune Amazing Grace. To make this listening guide I used pictures that I took when the Band went to Ireland this past spring as well as some public domain photos I found on the Internet.

Students would watch the movie and complete a quiz asking questions about the bagpipes, and how the tune Amazing Grace displayed a form of Theme and Variations.

Exported Notation and MIDI

Hi here is my exported Notation File. It is an arrangment for "We're Not Gonna Take It" by the band Twisted Sister. This is a tune that the AUMB will be playing in the stands this year. The band has purchased this song, however the parts were out of print so I notated it into Finale for them to play. I did this in Finale 2007 but I converted it to a PDF from a Finale Notebook file. Using this has become a very useful tool in the marching band at Auburn. Due to the large numbers and the accessability of the Internet, these parts are easy to access for all the students and very easy and efficient as far as distribution follows.

We're Not Gonna Take It


I have had difficulty viewing the archive from this past Wednesday so I hope to get my exported MIDI file up as soon as possible, but I can say for now it is a MIDI version of "Amazing Grace" which is in the public domain.

Software Evaluation Podcast

Hi all!

• Here is a link to my podcast and links to my three handouts (the third handout is two pages) on the Software program Guitar Made Easy. Enjoy!
• Here is my Podcast
• Here is Handout 1
• Here is Handout 2
• Here is Handout 3

• I reccomend downloading these handouts so you can view the text in my screen shots. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment!
  

Looping and Editing Software

Using looping and editing software can be a great tool to use as a teacher and in the class. It allows students to be creative and compose, which is also meeting a MENC National Standard and you can also edit previously recorded work. This can allow students to be creative and also allow them to have a more critical ear (evaluating and analyzing performances...another standard). Some tools that I have used is the Abelton software that was discussed in class today. I had fun with this but it can be overwhelming. The Super Dooper Music Looper is a great tool, too-especially for the younger children. However when I was playing with the software some tonight, I noticed the loops don't always line up, and there was no way to quantitize it, at least on the trial software. Overall, this could be utilized in the classroom in many ways, and I know it would appeal to a lot of students.

Digital Graphics

This is a picture I took a few years ago at a beach in Boca Raton, FL. I played around with some of the editing option in Adobe photoshop (here is the chalk and charcoal feature) and also cropped the image to get the date and some debris on the beach out of the picture. Students could be very creative when using this in the classroom and could use it to incorporate music and the other arts like making album covers or a slideshow to go along with a recording, or even for a journal coverpage for a music journal. Student could edit many different types of artwork here and editing pictures could even be a cross curricular activity involving the art teacher in your school or other subjects such as history and science (ex. learning about "The Planets" by Holst, etc.) Software programs such as Photoshop really provide endless opportunities for learning and creativity in the class!



here is a copy of a pretend band handbook I made.

Using pdf's for teaching can be very helpful. The example I used was making a handbook. This could be posted on your band's website or emailed using a listserv to you students. Audition materials, show music, concert posters and programs are a few other things that could be made into a pdf to avoid any editing done to the document and for easy posting on the web as well as through emails.





Here is an example of exporting notation using Finale or Sibelius. This could be very helpful in my teaching as I could assess the compositional projects of my students, or even use it to look at assignments students completed using a CAI program like SmartMusic.
Here is what an edited screen shot looks like. I think this could be used to allow students to be creative and personalize assignments, and also allow me to see what their desktop looks like and see if certain assignments or projects are on there.

Here is an example of a picture I created using Adobe Photoshop (Go Bucks!!). If I somehow made an error in this, please let me know! Photoshop could be a create tool in the classroom. Many lessons that were explained in an article Dr. Walls wrote provided ways of students synching artwork up with music, or finding visual art parallel to the time of certain musical time periods. Students could get very creative and made album covers, slide shows, even talk about a personal photo. I think students would have a lot of fun using this tool. I did once I got the hang of it!