Tag: MATB Book 2

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Halloween, Book 2

Introduction

BOO!

 It’s the scariest time of year and I am excited!

This song is all about Halloween.  It’s super spooky and exciting.  Have fun scaring everyone with your performance of this song!

Hint: Are you a new student this year or need something simpler?  Check out the version of Halloween from Book 1!

Listening

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano
Piano Challenge Version
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

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Grasshopper

Introduction

This is a hopping song that we’ve played before in Book 1!  We’re adding a chord to our left hand in this version.

Are you ready to hop???

Don’t be afraid to jump up in the air!

Hop! Hop! Hop! 

Listen

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano
Piano Challenge Version
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

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Can Can

Introduction

This is from Orpheus In The Underworld a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy

The opera is a joke version of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice that makes fun of the story.  In this version, Orpheus is not the son of Apollo but a country violin teacher. He is glad to be rid of his wife, Eurydice, when she is abducted by the god of the underworld, Pluto. Orpheus has to be forced into trying to rescue Eurydice.

Video

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano
Piano Challenge Version
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

Opera Arias

This is a video in which Maciek O’Shea, who is an opera singer tells you about and sings a whole bunch of operatic arias.  Aria is what a song in an opera that is sung by one person is called.  It’s a fun video and I hope you enjoy it.  Opera is one of my favorite types of music.

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C Major Scale

Introduction

This is not a song, it’s a SCALE.  In music, a scale is a set of notes that start and end on the same letter note.  So, a ‘C’ Major Scale starts and ends on C.

Notice that in measures 1 and 4, you’ll need to do a funky little move, slipping your thumb under your 3rd finger going up and hopping over your thumb with your 3rd finger on the way down.  The same thing happens in measures 6 and 7 with the left hand.  Doing them at the same time can be a challenge, but go for it!

Video

The Lesson

At The Piano

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment

As I said earlier, this is NOT a song, but it did inspire one, written by Richard Rodgers from the movie, The Sound of Music.  In the song, the singer is teaching the children solfege, which is a way of singing notes.  In solfege, a Major Scale is sung with the sounds Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do.

Notice that the singer sings a major scale right before starting the words to the song.  Enjoy!

Did you know that there is a formula for figuring out ANY major scale on the piano?  Watch this video below and think of this pattern:  Whole – Whole – Half – Whole – Whole – Whole – Half

The pianist in the first video at the top of the page is named Lang Lang, and he is a world renown pianist.  Check out this performance of his.

Here is Lang Lang at the age of 12.  Practice up, guys!!

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Little Sally Walker

Introduction

This is a circle game song.  The challenge is in the rhythm.  You’ve got to “swing” it.  That means to give the rhythm a sort of a sway that makes it move.  The swing is the quality of the rhythm that makes you want to get up and dance.  By “swinging” the rhythm, you’re sort of adding some syncopation to it.  Syncopation is when the sounds of the notes take a long-short pattern.

Video

The Lesson

At The Piano STRAIGHT

Full Speed

Slower

At The Piano SWUNG

Full Speed

Slower

Sheet Music

Piano
Piano Challenge Version
Ukulele
Guitar
Recorder
Xylophone or On-Screen Piano

Don’t Forget!

You can look up the ukulele chords and guitar chords and get help with reading tablature,
playing the recorder or rhythm (percussion) instruments right here on my website!

Enrichment