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Brian Crisp
Improvising and Composing with Familiar Rhythms, Drums, and Barred Instruments Lesson 3 There are four lessons in this series. Students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16-beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopation, and quarter rests. They will compose and perform melodies using Dorian mode, accompany themselves using a tonic drone bass,…
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Improvising and Composing with Familiar Rhythms, Drums, and Barred Instruments Introduction and Lesson 1 There are four lessons in this series. Students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16-beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopation, and quarter rests. They will compose and perform melodies using Dorian mode, accompany themselves using a tonic…
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Improvising and Composing with Familiar Rhythms, Drums, and Barred Instruments Introduction and Lesson 1 There are four lessons in this series. Students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16-beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopation, and quarter rests. They will compose and perform melodies using Dorian mode, accompany themselves using a tonic…
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Exploring Our Roots, Expanding Our Future: Lesson 4 Since most of the elements in this particular part of the lesson have already been introduced, most of the time will be devoted to students constructing possibilities for the final form of the piece. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 4 Video Demonstration:
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Exploring Our Roots, Expanding Our Future, Lesson 3 Speech will provide the rhythmic material for the compositions of unpitched percussion that will accompany the barred instrument piece learned in Lesson 2. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 3 Video Demonstration:
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Exploring Our Roots, Expanding Our Future: Lesson 2. Students are ready to perform the piece composed with all ostinati accompaniments. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 2 Video demonstration:
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Exploring Our Roots: Introduction and Lesson 1. Using a pentatonic scale, students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16 beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 1
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