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 Afternoon Ti Season 9 Episode 171 Pentatonic Scales with Barred Instruments Here we are - pentatonic scales on barred instruments.  I’ll start by sharing about different types of borduns, also called drones.  Then we’ll talk about improvisation ideas and composition as well. When students play a pentatonic melody, there are options for what you can have the bass line play.  Borduns are the bass line of the piece.  This is what anchors the piece.  It can add interest to the piece and secure the steady beat for an ensemble. There are three main options:  Simple, Single moving, and double moving. Bordun/Drone options: Simple Drone Simple drone is the most common and uses the tonic and dominant (1st and 5th scale degrees).  There four variations of the simple drone: Simple on a steady beat with both 1 and 5 playing at the same time Simple broken - Alternating between 1 and 5 on the beat Simple level - playing 1/5 together on long bars and again on th...

 Season Seven Episode 150 Virtual Xylophones with Brent Geyer Vandercook FREE Zoom Music Webinar - Brent is presenting one on Virtual Xylophones using Scratch on Thursday, April 29!  Sign up here ! Brent Geyer has been teaching in the Westfield Public Schools since 2007 as both a general vocal music teacher for grades 1-5 and a strings specialist. During this time he has directed the All City Orchestra and All City Chorus and also directs the high school Men's Chorus. Brent's 5th grade choirs have sung with the NJ Festival Orchestra and were chosen twice to be aired on NJ 101.5 for their Christmas Choir contest, in which they won first place in 2015. Brent holds both a Bachelors in Music Education and Piano Performance from West Chester University, a Masters in Music Education from the University of the Arts, and completed his Orff levels at Villanova. He is also the creator of the virtual xylophones found on the coding site Scratch. On the American Orff Schulwerk Teacher Gr...

 Season Six Episode 115 No Singing. No Instruments. Then What? What we are able to do with students in our classrooms this fall keeps changing.  I feel like the more I learn, the more questions I have.  And the answer we’re likely to get is ‘I don’t know’ because truly no one knows. A major change this year is that singing and playing instruments in many schools will not be able to be done as usual.  And of course in the music classroom this is a lot of what we do!  But it’s not the only thing we do.  And there is still much that we have available to give our students so that they can have the best music learning experience possible even with the limitations. One of the things I did earlier this summer was make a list of the things I can do in the classroom.  This was extremely helpful.  If you’re feeling overwhelmed with knowing where to begin, this was the task that allowed me to start.  It places the emphasis on the positive and gives y...

Season Three Episode 85 Orff Approach with Chris Judah-Lauder Chris Judah-Lauder Bio: Chris Judah-Lauder taught elementary and middle school music for 40 years in public and private schools. She is a regular presenter at state, regional, national conferences, Canada, South Korea and China. She is a Past President of AOSA and was the National Conference Chair for the 2009 and 2017 AOSA Conferences. Chris is currently consulting for title one schools in Fort Worth, Texas working directly in the classroom with the music teacher and K-5 students. Chris teaches AOSA-approved Teacher Education Courses at various universities across the United States. She is a senior author for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, has seventeen publications including Drum with a Passion and Games, Groups, and Gems, In the Modes, Hand Drums on the Move. TRANSCRIPT OF THE SHOW   Jessica: Chris, it has been such a pleasure to have you in my life and I'm so excited for you to share with...