Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Musicians Among Us!

Last week we had an incredible assembly with Brent Daniels, an electronic musician.

Check out this link to learn more about the program:  Brent's Website

During the assembly, many kids from EVCS came up and had their voices recorded either singing, speaking, or beat-boxing.  All of us were also recorded clapping, stomping, and yelling, to create the percussion in the song.  It was then all put together by Brent into this great song, 100% created by the sounds of our students!



We could not stay in our seats for a second during the assembly as we danced, bounced, and moved to the awesome beats!

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Since today is Wednesday, we had music class right before lunch.  Nina, however, was not here today and instead another musician, Shane, came to work with us.  We learned how to use one drum to make lots of different noises by changing our hand-shape and by hitting different parts of the drum.  We created some beautiful beats and rhythms.  After we played, Shane played some incredible songs for us using some very exotic drums, including on that sounded like the ocean and another that sounded like a cow moo'ing when he slid his finger across it.  It was a great morning for the musicians of our class!