A fun review game of hangman to start off Day 4 of our Carnival of the Animals music camp! Learning all about the Science of Sound and how the ear works. For the math whizzes of the bunch – compute these 32nd notes! Practicing technique concepts on each other! Interval Intuition – Can they feel […]
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Highlights from Day 3 of Carnival of the Animals Music Camp
Students get comfy as we start Day 3 of our Carnival of the Animals music camp. Having fun with our string art projects! Loving using my new iPad mini and iHome bluetooth speaker for listening to each work while we color the corresponding pages. The students work on one of today’s technique challenges – wrist […]
Highlights from Day 2 of the Carnival of the Animals Music Camp
We began Day 2 of our Carnival of the Animals Music Camp by discussing our theme verse (Revelation 4:11) and reading a psalm of praise (Psalm 100). Next up was a challenging activity to review yesterday’s vocabulary words. Students had to select the right definitions from a list of 15 possibilities! Coloring while listening to […]
Highlights from Day 1 of Carnival of the Animals Music Camp
Today was the first day of our much-anticipated Carnival of the Animals Music Camp, and we had a blast! Snacks are ready! One bottle of water and a cup of Whales for each student. Student Workbooks ready for the unleashing of each student’s creative juices! String art supplies collected! Laptop, Bible, and Bluetooth speaker ready […]
Free Music Fonts!
In working on curriculum for the Carnival of the Animals music camp in our studio next week, I realized that the Bach musicological font I used to use all the time on my PC was not rendering correctly on my Mac. With a little digging, I discovered a great new Rhythms font that works even […]
Overview of Soundbrenner Pulse
It is no secret that sound frequencies/vibrations are woven into the very fabric of our world-in nature and in us. It is also no secret that practicing with a metronome can be very unenjoyable and it often causes you to play less musically and more technically. So, “Why,” a group of German musicians seem to […]
