Boys aren't keen on singing. Apparently.
You wouldn't have guessed it from the speed with which the male half of Paul Jones' year 5 class, sprang to turn a solo rendition of their vocal piece into an ensemble performance by 18; not just singing but swaying together too.
We're preparing for a small end of term sharing at which we'll bring year 7s and year 5s to show each other what they've been working on. Today Bobbie led a session at Chivenor School in which the children combined four of the melodies that they created a couple of weeks ago. The melodies were created from the speech patterns of excerpts from interviews that the children had done with older people some weeks before. A really good session that we'll build on over the next couple of weeks before sharing it in mid December.
The late afternoon session at Astral Youth Centre built on work we'd done over the previous couple of weeks. In the last session both older and younger people collected sounds from around the building that can be used as sounds in beat construction. Today we used conversation about "Christmas" (very topical) and "Tomorrow" to produce words that can accompany those sounds as percussive elements. We also tried a random rhythm creation exercise in which everyone chose two beats on which they'd place one of the sounds we'd sampled. I'll be using a combination of these to create rhythm loops to go along with the one produced in Chris's session a couple of weeks ago.
Dave
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