PIANO APPS   FOR CLASS




                   



 Click here for link to a free Android Piano app

 Click for a link to a free Itunes Piano app

 Click for a link to a free Windows Piano app

Homework November 5-15th

NOVEMBER HOMEWORK

• The song below "Ode to Joy" is a project for multiple grades at Harambee.

Instructions:  as your parents for help

• If you do not have a keyboard at home don't worry. In class everyone will receive a plastic paper piano. If your piano has been lost on the way out of class don't worry !   

• You can copy and paste the one below and print in Microsoft word     

•  You may expand the size their for your comfort.



Paper Piano

 You can practice the song on your paper piano. Below is an exact online demo of "Ode to Joy".

"Ode to Joy" Demo- Right Hand Only

Copy and paste into Microsoft Word or print the song below

 CHECK OUT WHAT WE WATCHED

IN CLASS THIS WEEK

"Fur Elise" by Beethoven as played by Dreww

Musicians of the Week of Oct. 19th

	Pianists of the Week

          
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943, Philadelphia) is an American jazz pianist. Known for his lyrical style of playing, Barron has appeared on hundreds of recordings as both leader and sideman and is consequently considered one of the most important and influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.^[1][2][3]

Interview with the Scene.

Do you remember the first time you played the piano? When did it hit you that this could be your life's work?

I was very young, four or five years old. We had an old upright, and I had two brothers and two sisters -- all older -- and everybody played piano, so there was always a piano in the house. I was blessed with a fairly good ear, so I would hear something on the radio, or hear something my brothers and sisters were playing and I could go to the piano and figure it out. When I was in my early teens, it dawned on me. I really liked playing jazz, and it actually never occurred to me to do anything else.

                     

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.

Born: December 1770, Bonn, Germany

Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria

Influenced by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, George Frideric Handel, Friedrich Schiller

Parents: Maria Magdalena Keverich, Johann van Beethoven

  * Below is the    Listen to Fur Elise online.   intro to one of Beethoven's most famous songs. 
Can you recognize these notes ?   Listen to the whole song online

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Remember this for next class !

Latest      HOMEWORK  Oct.8th 2015


Study with you parents

Treble Clef and Bass Clef Lines and Spaces

Begin by memorizing each column. Lets memorize this for next class.
Then you are more than half way to reading music and playing basic piano.

Any music related questions post them on the blog !

















Do you remember this





The mbira or thumb piano is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs

Basic Types of  Music Notes

What is a beat ?

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time.

the beat is what you normally clap or snap you fingers to in a song.

Beats are important because they make up rhythm.

Beats have been described as the atoms of music.