Sound – hum a tune, play instrument, clap rhythm

Rhythm – beat

Melody – tune

Pitch – highs and lows

Tone – brightness or darkness

Volume – loudness, softness

• Dynamics – softness, loudness
• pp p mp mf f ff

Feeling – mood

Harmony – sound of different notes that blend together

Tempo – slowness or quickness

• largo, adagio, andente, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto

Pythagoras, in 500 BC, proved through mathematics that vibrations cause the pitch and tone of sound. Shorter the string, the higher the pitch.

2 inventions changed sound

• telephone (Bell)
• phonograph (Edison)

Ear training – recognition of different sounds in musical range

Do not correct student when playing wrong.

Brain on music

Blues-minor pentatonic scale

Rhythm

Timbre

Sound painting

Voice – take care of voice

Water – few hours before singing.

Moist

Rest – full night’s sleep

Vocal rest – silence

Avoid yelling, screaming

Posture – tall, straight spine

shoulders relax, chin level with floor or slightly tucked in, arms at side

Warm up – stretch, breathing singing exercise – Ha, Paint Like Dog, Buzzz, ssss, bbbbrrrr, lip drill

Tongue Twisters – mommy made me mash my m & m’s

Belly breaths – fill with 4 seconds

5 ssh’s

Imagine voice forward, buzzing in nose and mouth, not throat

chest vibrations – low voice

Piano – beating heart of home, source of joy, sacred shrine

Music was the higher power, spiritual refuge

Melodies, harmonies, tempos, tone

Play in dark – chopin.

Poetic techniques – alliteration, anaphora, assonance, onomatopoeia, refrains, rhythm.

Reverso poem – reads one way going down and presents another idea or view point when same lines are read going up. Form invented by Marilyn Singer

Humming, singing and whistling can energy, improve mood, decrease anxiety. Singing increases oxygen, seems to affect neurotransmitters, so sing in the shower or join a choir. Notice how lighthearted singing makes you feel.

Music influences our respiratory rate, blood pressure, stomach contractions, and hormone levels, which in turn affect our immune system. Heart rates slow down or speed up to synchronize with the beat of the music and it can increase oxygenation and alter our brain waves (remember the relaxing alpha waves)

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