What’s a Metronome?

What’s a Metronome?

I love a metronome! It acts like a little drum when we’re making music and it helps us keep time. But, what is it and how does it work? I don’t know why this person has put wings on a metronome, but it’s pretty and 

There’s a lion eating the violins!!!!!!

There’s a lion eating the violins!!!!!!

Do you pretend to be an animal sometimes? Perhaps roar like a lion or sing in the trees like a bird? Here are some very famous pieces of animal music written by people who probably wanted to put roaring lions or chirping birds on stage 

Your favorite music!

Your favorite music!

Around the world, people like all sorts of different music. For some, music is vital. For others, it’s just noise. But for many, music tells the stories we don’t know how to tell ourselves, helps us understand or cope with our feelings, distracts us from 

Tuning and Beats

Tuning and Beats

There are two really important things you need to get right when learning music: how to tune your instrument how to stay in time (on the beat)   Here are some links to help with that. If you’re not keen on these, go search for 

Playing the Cajon

Playing the Cajon

So…let’s get some rhythm going! Here are different teachers, in Dutch and English, giving lots of information about the Cajon and how to play it. If you don’t like their lessons, search and see who else you can find. It’s your music!!!!!!!       

How to play the ukulele

How to play the ukulele

So…Here’s how you’re going to learn to play the ukulele: a little bit of help from me each week, but mostly from You Tube at home. Below are two sets of teachers, one in Dutch and one in English. You can learn a lot from 

And Again…

And Again…

Sometimes leaning new things is boring. Or…it has boring moments. Here we can see how long it takes a man named Mike Boyd to learn how to…  

What is music anyway Miss?

What is music anyway Miss?

On this page we’ll slowly build up some information with the kids over the year.   Music notes on a piano and on paper.         Beats       Different Time Signatures/how many beats in a bar.       An exercise: