Making Music For Finding Dory ( Counting The Beat)

 Kia Ora Readers!

For the final week in counting the beat if we have been trying to create our own music. Mr Mitchell firstly  showed the class some examples of music and asked us if we would share it with a friend, the songs were Just Loose it and Hey Jude. Personally I wouldn't really share the songs  to my friends because  the first song "Just loose it" lyrics was to fast and hard to understand and  the other song "Hey Jude" was to calming for me. After we listened to the songs we watched the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory without any music or sounds.  Then Mr Mitchell asked the class how we felt about it, I said " I felt as if I needed to add music to the scene." Next we watched  the scene with a  song different to the original scene, most of us thought it didn't suit the scene. Finally we watched it with the original sound, we all agreed it  was definitely better than the other versions and suits the scene very well.  

After  we finished watching all the videos, Mr Mitchell  told us we needed to finish all our hurumanu tasks and showed him them blogged to start the task. Then Mr Mitchell begun explaining the task, the task was to find or create a song/beat to the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory. The websites we could choose from to make the music was either  Sound Nation or SoundTrap and then use Kapwing to overlap the music to the video. I choose to use Sound Nation to create the music. I created a account on the website I made a empty draft then started adding beats and sounds to create the moment of the truck falling. At first I just included random sounds and beats but then I added effects and changed the volume for each beat to the music. I also checked to see if the video and music would go together every time I changed anything about the music.

Once I completed my music I put the video on a empty template then included the audio. I fixed any mistakes that stopped the music from sounding any different then published the video and watched it to see who it would be with the music. My music for the video was the genre of percussion and woodwind. The feeling of my music is excitement and fear I tried putting it together to explain the scene in music and emotions. The hardest part about this task was making the music suit the scene because I had to change it around a lot and I didn't want to use the same beats all the time. The easiest part was overlapping the music to the scene because I just needed to do two steps to do so. 

Have you made your own music before or tried doing anything similar to what I've done? 

Here is my overlapped music to the scene:

Content made on Kapwing

Music through the Decades

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For the past few weeks in "Counting the Beat " we having being learning about famous singers and music. In this weeks lesson we focused on the change in music throughout the decades. My class watched a video about how the music has changed which included people singing. After we watched the video we had to get into no more then a group of four. My group which was Venice, Amanda and me.  Then make a presentation about the change in decades between 1900 to 2010, they all had to have a slide. In each slide it had to have the genre that was popular or new, a famous singer from that decade,  the clothing that was popular in the decade, a iconic item,  a famous song and a re released song ( if you could find one). 

I then made a google slide and sent it to Venice and Amanda. Next we begun adding the information and facts. At first we got a bit confused but then we read what we needed to include in the slide and got the hang of it. Once we finished all the slides and checked if all the videos worked. We  also made the slide show have a specific theme, for example: my group theme was pastel colours and adding shade to the images etc. 

Here is the video we watched :

 

Here is the amazing slide my group and I created:

What is your favourite song and when was it released?

Counting the Beat: Biography

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Last week in counting the beat we learnt about famous singers. We firstly learnt about names of singers and what type of music they do. The teacher put up some images of ten famous singers, then we had to try name them. Next Mr Mitchell told us our task, it was to make a biography about a famous singer or band. We had to answer the questions from the site and include it in our biography. I did my Biography on a google slide and included some images. What is a biography? A biography is a way introducing someone by writing it. The band I choose to do mine about was Bts, they are a  male k-pop group who dance and sing. My favourite part about this task was picking a video to include in this blog post. A question: Who is your favourite singer or band?

Here is a video of Bts singing:

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Less Common Instruments (Counting The Beat)

 Kia Ora Readers!

This week in Counting the Beat we have been learning about less common instruments that are very rare to find. Firstly we watched some videos of the incredibly weird instruments, the one that I found was the most interesting was this one that used marbles to make music it was very big and made out of wood here is the video: Marble Machine. 

After we watched all of the videos Mr Mitchell told the class our task, which was to make our own instrument using other instruments of even making your own. We had to draw it on a piece of paper and then name the instrument we drew. 

Since today my school had a day off I choose to draw out what I wanted my instrument to be, I firstly looked at some pictures of instruments to use and then I choose two instruments which were the piano and a part of the drums. I looked at some drawings of the piano then I started sketching out the piano then I started sketching out the drum part. I made sure that everything was how wanted it to be then I coloured the piano and drum kit. After that I thought of a name, I made sure  the words drum and piano were included into the name I thought of the name Dripano which was a very interesting name. I added it to my piece of paper and then started this blog post. 

How does my instrument work?

- It works by pressing a switch and playing any note or song on the piano which hits the drum and makes  banging noises. You can also use the piano by its self which works perfectly fine. There is also another way where you can play the drums and piano together, you  simply have to use a  separate part of the piano keys to play both instruments which is easily found when you press the switch twice. 

What family is it in?

-Percussion 

What is it made out of?

-The Dripano is made out of wood for the piano outside part which is painted black, the keys are made out of reused plastic, the drums are made out of metal and strong plastic. 

What sound does it make?

- My instrument makes sounds that can be used as a beat. Deep calming piano notes which help for relaxing or studying and crashing sounds for the drum kit. 

What type of music would it be used for?

-Heavy metal,

-Rock,

- and sad music. 

Believer STOMP project (Counting The Beat)

Greetings Readers!

This week in Counting the beat we have been learning about percussion music and what it is. Percussion music is beats used to make music and hitting objects with any object. We learnt about the different the different types of percussion music such as body percussion which is when you use your body to make sounds and beats. We also got to watch some videos of people doing body percussion to songs. The one that was mostly interesting was this guy making sounds with his armpit here is the video: Ethiopian armpit music .Today we got into groups of three and tried bringing some items from home to make music, I brought a pot, pan chop sticks and a wooden spoon to create music. 

The people in my group are Venice, Hollie, Amanda and me we firstly wanted to pick the song Havana but then we changed it to believer cause we liked the beat better.  I used a pot and chopsticks, Venice used a counting frame and a wooden spoon, Hollie and Amanda used a long stick thingy ( I don't know what it's called) and their feet to make beats. Have you ever made a beat before? 

Here is our beat:

Violin 🎻 (Counting The Beat)

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This week in counting the beat we have been learning about the violin. First we learnt about  sizes, there are lots of different sizes of violins some of them work differently then others. Next we learnt about the families which are Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass. We  got taught about parts of the violin,  some  parts are.. bow, turning pegs, finger board and end button. There are different types of violin like electric, next we watched some videos of talented people playing  violin such as Vanessa Mae .  

After that we got to feel, look and pass the violin around the class. For me the violin is ok I don't love it but I  like but the people who play are very talented. The way that Violin is played is very interesting to me because there are many ways of using Violin and playing. The reason why is because I don't really love the music that comes out of it. What is your favourite instrument and why? My favourite instrument is the piano because I love the sounds and the music you can make,I really want to learn how to play and have been for a while. 

Here is the slide we did our work off: 

Orchestra ( Counting the beat) 🎤

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This week in counting the beat in hurumanu 2 we have been learning about orchestra, a orchestra is a group of stringed instruments. The first thing we did was look at different instrument family's  in orchestras the first instrument we learnt about was the woodwind, a woodwind is like a flute it blows wind and was originally made out of wood, the next instrument we learnt about was the brass, they are sort of like a trumpet but with a different shape, music is made from your lip vibrating onto the mouth piece and some other parts. The last type of instrument we learnt about was ... the percussion family. The percussion family include instruments similar to pianos such as.. xylophone, bass drum, snare drum etc. Then we watched a  you tube video of a orchestra  the video was this group of 1000 students, they did the orchestra during lock down and the music beautiful they played the song "Jupiter." Next we got to see some instruments in real life we got to feel them as well, they were instruments  that would be in a orchestra in person we got to see the violin, flute, recorder and some other instruments but I forgot their names. My favourite instrument I got to feel was the big flute because it was something new for me. Have you learnt about instruments before?

Here is the slide we did our work off:

Counting the beat ( ukulele & recorder)

 Kia Ora Readers!

This week in counting the beat we have been learning about ukulele's and the recorder/flute we first had to answer some questions, such as " what to do you know about ukulele?" After that we watched some you tube videos of people playing the ukulele and making music with ukulele. We learnt about the different sizes and shapes with different colours and features. 3 glossary terms are sound hole, headlock and bridge. For the  recorder there is the mouth piece, block and tane hole. Some students got to play a song with ukulele they choose to play the lion sleeps tonight. Today we learnt about the recorder we got to listen to some tunes and play some tunes. The first few tunes we learnt we did pretty good on but the last ones not so much. Playing the recorder for me was a little bit easy at first but then the tunes got a bit confusing. We also got to see the different sizes  there were big, small and medium sizes, but we played the small ones. 

     Here is the slides we did our work off:     

Guitars (Counting the beat)

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Yesterday in my  hurumanu class we learn't about all the different types of guitars and how they work. First we answered some question to do with guitars such as... what do you know about guitars? Then Mr Mitchell showed us some types of guitars and how they work and look. Every guitar was very unique and had there own way of working. We learn't about the parts of guitars and what they do to work the guitar some parts are : frets, rosette, and neck. Some guitars even had more strings than others. After that we listened to some music that had guitars playing in it. Then we got to see Mr Mitchell play some of his guitars he had. Next we got to play some of the guitars I played the travel, electric, and air guitar. My favourite guitar I played was the Air guitar because it was very fun but it was out of tune. Have you ever played a guitar? 

Here is the slide we did our work off: 

Counting the beat

Hey Readers!

This term with my hurumanu class we have been learning about music and counting the beat. The first lesson we talked about types of music, where it can be found, and how music can be made. We got into groups of four  and wrote the answer to the questions on a piece of paper we got from Mr Mitchell. The next lesson we did was listening to different types of music. Something I want to learn about music is how to play an instrument because I don't know how to play any. What I learn't from these lesson is that you can make music with almost everything. 

Definition: 

Sounds, notes and beats that are put together to express ideas or emotions.

Types: 

Rock and roll, rap, country, hip hop, jazz, blues, lyrical, metal, heavy metal, classical, calm, pop, karaoke, electric, singing, soft.

Where can we find/hear/experience music?

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• Youtube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to? 

• Dance music

• Sad music

• Hip hop

• Rap

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music