Transcript Music Basics - Salmon River High School

Music Basics
FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE
MUSIC CLASSES
OCTOBER 2008
 Organized noise
 the part of the music you recognize
 the part you hum…..
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aQ8Y9xSss
 The high and low notes of the music
Think about a baseball pitcher
Melody - components
 Staff
five horizontal lines and four spaces
 Clef
 Treble
 Bass
 Music Alphabet – the first 7 notes of the alphabet

ABCDEFG

They repeat over and over again
 Octave = 8 notes
 Oct = 8 (think of octopus, octagon)
 Ave= notes
Melody - continued
 Lines = egbdf
 Spaces= face
 the background to the melody
 this is the part that makes the song sound good.
 Animusic-Pipe Dream
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gpJ1hVoJqU
 Scrubs –Janitor Barbershop Quartet
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnRca8tVu4
 Disneyland Barbershop Quartet
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQl0fcFP0cA
 The beat of the music
 It’s sometimes called “the heartbeat of music”
 Animusic Drum Machine
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1JX-X4uRk
 How fast or slow the music is
 The speed
 PBS 39 Tempo!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ajqWSCekrc