Bradley's+M2-3+Music+DW+2013-14

Our first lesson in music was listening to music from a book called " Can you hear it?" With this was, what we call a silent drama, the music started to play and we had to write what we thought the music was wherever that would be a picture or a story was our decision. We only had the one lesson for out first meeting this school year. we listened to a song which i thought it was about a king would enter and there is a duel between him and someone who opposed against him they dueled for quite some time but the king dies and that causes an upset in the village and anger so many of the villagers cause a lot of damage on others property, until one wise old man would enter in the story and show everyone there is good and bad in the world and leads them to choose the good in life therefore the situation is solved and then there is peace within the village. The king and the wise old man go down in history as the ones who brought balance to the village. After what we wrote we could ell each other as a group what we wrote and so i did. Then came another song which i thought it was about... gun shots were fired and there was a signal to run but it was more of a whistle, and then everything goes quite for one point of the song and then tension was stating to rise. __** Wednesday 21st August 2013. **__ We listened to some more songs, i think there were five or six pieces of music all together. The first song that was played i first idea was that we were in a maze where there was a chase going on and on and on the tempo hardly ever changed from start to finish. the speed was around at the same pace but quite fast in my mind. The second song that as played were two women singing/screaming/strangling, to sing like a cat the song was boring and never had any music just two women being strangle like cats. the lyrics did change from time to time they would scream louder at times and quieter at times. Third song i thought was about a man wakes up to open his bedroom window to start his first day at work, so he would go and do is routine shower teeth clothes(suit) and finish with his tie and shoes. to finally get his briefcase and get his tie stuck in the door, but that didn't seem to bother him. he would get into his car beeping his horn to people but in a jolly sort of way, and bicycles would ring there bell and wave to him, you could hear the sounds of horses clip-ate clap with their hooves. Once he would get passed the giant gates of work to realize that it weren't so great as he anticipated. But it turned out to be a traffic jam in Paris with police men and women on hoses and other people on there bicycles. the forth song was was more of a fantasy not heard on earth more to of with the fantasy realm with fairy's i didn't understand what that piece of music was really about but that's what came mind first and then nothing else. the fifth song was a army marching left right and then it sped up so then from the army marching it seemed as if they were running now bu to what was the question i had in my mind. This goes on for a while and then suddenly a bang or a crash sound goes off to signal to me anyway there was two army charging towards each other then to battle with one and another. __** Thursday 22nd August 2013. **__ On Thursday we listened to two more pieces of music from"Can you hear it". The first song/ piece of music was a violin playing away with a man and a women dancing together on a stage just like the stages you see in theaters. It starts out just with them dancing together until the violin and the song itself picks up speed then many other men and women dance together afterwards it goes back to the start again just as the one an and women dancing together as the violin gets slower the too dance slower until the song finishes. the second song was a stomping sound that an elephant would make and yes it was, when Mr.Tompkins showed us the picture that came with the song it was an elephant stomping away in a forest. __** Tuesday 27th August 2013. Week 2: **__ This was our fist day back together for week 2. We were put into groups of three or four and my group was, Me, Ye jin and Amber. At first i wondered why we were put into groups but then later on Mr.Tompkins explained the reason why, He purposely mixed us randomly into groups because we were going to act out a song just like all the songs we had been listening to the previous week. First in our groups we had a a piece of paper and we had to make the song last with five different parts. i wrote at first what i thought then Mr.Tompkins kept the song on loop so we could listen to it again and again and once i wrote down the basic idea of what i thought the song meant to me, then i asked my group what they thought and amber came up with the idea of a chase was happening so i wrote that down to give us more of an idea on what to act out. This would be the day when would have to perform to the rest of the class. we had sheets for the rest of the groups the asses. my group performed first but before any of the groups would of performed they had to give there play a name or more so a title then a name. My group was the first to perform i thought we did quite well but most of the problem was the audience was not satisfied by the fact that it weren't finished but i wanted it to have an extended part for another time/ a cliff hanger. I wanted to bring something new to the plate that the other groups didn't. After we finished we let everyone else fill in a peer assessment sheet with questions about the play, afterwards the asked questions and either me, ye jin or amber answered them there were some group questions and some individual questions to some of us. The next group to perform was Ruoming, Jeeyeoun, Jake and Michael's group. there story from what i could tell at first was that Michael was sitting on a park bench when Jake was acting as an old man dies of a heart attack, but i was wrong
 * __ This is Bradley's Music Development Workbook for 2013-14. __**
 * __ Week 1 __**
 * __Wednesday 28th August 2013. __**

Michael was in a car and had run over Jake, this part was unclear to me anyway i thought that to make it more clear Michael could of acted more so that he was in a car and using his hands as a steering wheel and his feet as the pedals. That was one of the key improvements to be done. It was clever in the idea that Jake came back as a ghost to see Michael at trial and he gets sent to jail.

For this class we didn't do that much all we did was come up to the ICT room to add more to our development workbook nothing exciting. The same from the last class we came up to the ICT room to add more to our development workbook and as well nothing exciting was going on. In this class we practiced //Dragonfly// and //Popcorn//. I was trying to get to grips with the alto's part i found that to be a bit challenging. Today we practiced //Popcorn//. We started to learn some new parts, so far we have learned the basic rhythm and the syncopated part as well. In class we have both collaborated and transferred. We have played the song as a group together therefore we have transferred math to music class by, as you would find a pattern in math we used the same technique and applied it to music. In this class we practiced //Dragonfly // and //Popcorn //. To get an idea of the song //Popcorn // we listened to the original song from the year of 1969 our music teacher Mr.Tompkins told us that it was a popular thing when it first came out. The song was roughly five minutes so we wouldn't of done our version that long we would hope for it to be two minutes i think but i'm not sure on how long it is at the moment or how long it will be when we finish. To me it seemed more of a electronic song which it was and then it was more or less as you would expect the sound of popcorn to sound like when you put it in the microwave, I'm guessing during that time beings as it was a electronic piece of music it was a totally new thing so it created a hype around the song but i'm too sure if that's the case. Afterwards of listening to //Popcorn // we all chipped in with our own ideas of what we were missing and what we needed to add and take away from what we have already. David and Mr.Tompkins both had the idea that we needed a drum and someone else thought that we needed a different synthesized drum loop. The drum was a great idea to my mind because it was what we needed to add in to the song. The drum would be a perfect match with the sound of the xylophone. YeJin came up with the idea that we could have a guitar solo which me and some others agreed that this was a good idea. so therefore David was chosen to play the guitar. Today we continued to play and practice //Popcorn//. So far we have learnt most parts, we all got to play the glockenspiel part and the alto xylophone. Together we arranged the form. In this lesson we have collaborated from playing together and arranging the form together, we have been changing and transferring the whole class to play there parts and ad the final touches to the song. __** Thursday 12th September 2013. **__ Today we have got a form and have found out that the song at the end doesn't feel like it is finished so we concluded that we needed a coda. we have played through the song a few time and we all have got better and it seems like all the pieces are all fitting together. __** Tuesday 17th September 2013. Week 5: **__ Today David brought his guitar in for music class, so David got used to playing his art from the xylophone to the guitar which at first i thought he was finding it hard to get used to but in my case i was wrong David was doing great. The ATLs we have used in this class has been collaboration and thinking. collaborating because we have played as a class so everyone had there part to play which was nice. Thinking because we were still not finished with a coda so we were still on about that. __** Wednesday 18th September 2013. **__ Today we finished with the form we finally had a coda that we all thought was the right one everything seemed to fit just right. Just once or twice David did forget what part he would have to play but the got it right in the end of it which was good. We changed the ending of the song plus we wanted the coda to get quieter and slower as we got closer to the end which is what we did..We have finally finished with the form so we have the piece of music done so all we need to do is play it for our assessments next week. __** Tuesday 24th September 2013. **__ In this class we practiced and recorded Popcorn i thought this would be the last time we would do Popcorn but the coda was to sudden and needed changing. We came up to the ICT room as well later on. Today i think the ATL's are thinking and collaboration because of us all inputting ideas to Popcorn that's collaborating and we had to think about that plus we had to think how to change the coda, to start and finish it. __** Wednesday 25th September 2013. **__ For today we practiced Popcorn but not that much because we jumped straight into our assessment we were put into groups. __** Thursday 8th May 2014. **__ Starting our new unit is focused on the summer show and what M2-3 can do for it. Mr.Tompkins has gave us a piece of music, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and has asked us to jazz it up in certain ways changing it form a "baby song" to a awesome one. We started to have a class discussion on it and some suggestions were that we could and a Dub-step and Rock N' Roll part to the song and also perhaps an acting segment to it, something like singing dancing and acting but hasn't been confirmed this is all in the planning stages. So far this week we have been playing on the xylophones and glockenspiels with all difference parts to the song with the melody, accompaniment and David has been trying out the song on his electric guitar. During today's lesson we have continued with all the parts all of us having a chance to play every one of them. Also by adding an introduction to the start of it and then everyone comes together to play the song. Later on with and a mini class discussion on what instruments we could add to it and by scanning the room we came up with some ideas like, the piano, egg-shakers, drums, the base and the gong. With only the summer show a few weeks away we haven't got as much times as we would hope therefore we will have to work fairly quickly to get to some achievement with this piece. We were also to go away and think of what songs we would like to sing or dance to and so far nothing much has happened with this task. __**Wednesday 28th May 2014.**__ I haven't wrote for the diary in a while and it's sort of hard to remember what we have done in the mean times anyways. We have added a Star Wars theme to the song well that's what the audience will think when the read the list of acts for the summer show. There is a rock part with Ryan and David on the drums and electric guitar playing the rock version while everyone else is dancing along to it around the stage. The plan is that Jake is going to be Darth Vader when the Star Wars theme song plays at the beginning then it changes to Empire Strikes Back at that part is when Jake walks on the stage and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the glockenspiel the plan is before he gets to finish it David walks over to Jake which he plays the role of Yoda kills Jake with a light-saber then David plays a more interesting variation to the song then YeJin walks over who we haven't decided who she will be yet but then she banishes David to the guitar which then she gathers up the rest of the class which i think we will either be the same characters perhaps storm troopers or all different people form the Star Wars universe. We march with her to our respected stations at each xylophones then we play one part when we finish we take a bow but really we haven't finished then Jake starts to play again but YeJin strikes him down and walks over to a xylophone and plays really fast in anger and uses her body language to get everyone to play along to she gives us an introduction of several beats then we play along with her but very quietly and before the end the rock version with Ryan and David start to play so the two pieces over lap together then we play a dub-step part we have a piece of music to play with but that is just for the sake of having it for now at least but the music probably won't be the actual one we use for the show i think we will make one in the meantime or a group of us students shall do that i'm not entirely sure on what the plan is with that. Then for a ending we all take a bow and walk of but Jake is at the back of the line then sneaks back to play one more time but before he gets to hit a note YeJin comes back to strike him down with the light-saber once more. __** Thursday 29th May 2014. **__ Today for music class we are down a few students due to the workshops at SSIS therefore we can't do much with the music piece with so many people not being able to be here. Therefore we have come upstairs to work on our DW and Mr.Tompkins asked us if we could also look at tabao for some light sabers and mask for the song so far i have found some light-sabers but they seem to be a bit much for what they seem to be, i will show them to Mr.Tompkins to get his feedback on wherever or not they are suitable for what we need. We also were shown a song that will be at the start of the summer show by Alice cooper, schools out and it was just an idea that we could have a slideshow of photos from our school to do with the lyrics of the song. It seems that David really doesn't want to be Yoda which i can't see why it would be funny, in a good way for the show at least. Maybe he could be someone else from the Star Wars franchise as a Jedi perhaps.
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