Violin 🎻 (Counting The Beat)

Salam (Hello) Readers!

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) 🎤

 Hey Readers! 

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 in orchestras the first instrument we learnt about was the woodwind, a woodwind is like a flute it blows wind and was originally made out of wood, the next instrument we learnt about was the brass, they are sort of like a trumpet but with a different shape, music is made from your lip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: