Counting on the beat, Ukulele

In Hurumanu 2 we have been learning about the Ukulele.

The Ukulele was created in Hawaii by Spanish people that couldn't

find enough wood to make a real guitar so they made a smaller version and that was when the Ukulele was created.

There are also different sizes of Ukulele and there are electric Ukuleles as well.

Most Ukuleles only have four strings on it, and the string are made of nylon so they are softer for your fingers and they wont hurt as much.

There are all sorts of varieties of Violin like,

• Tenor,
• Baritone,
• Concert,
•  and Soprano. 

You can make Ukuleles out of anything like a surf board or maybe even a random table I think, the Ukulele is reffered  to jumping flea 

in Hawaiian 

Counting on the beat

 In Hurumanu 2 we have been learning about recorders, recorders are similar  to flute. 

  We tried to play the recorder but we were not very good at it.

The Recorder is a instrument where you blow into it and by using the holes on the recorder you can make different tunes.

In the old days people used to make recorders out of wood,

you can get a bunch of different types of Recorders like,

• Soprano,
• Alto,
• Bass,
• and Tenor.

Most Recorders look the same but their just in different sizes.

You can even take the Recorder apart and make different sounds with those pieces for fun, did you know that the Recorder dates way back to the middle ages that's way before the Clarinet, Harmonica and Tuba  .

Recorders were carved out of Ivory wood, 

Counting on the beat, Violin

 In Hurumanu 2 we have been researching about the violin.

The violin is like the guitar, but except the guitar usually has six strings, and you hold the violin up in your neck and instead of play it with your fingers you play it with a bow that is mad of horse hair.

But there are certain sizes of violin for certain ages.

You an even get electric violins.

Their are heaps of different varieties of violin like,

• Baroque,
• Stroh violin,
• Electric Violin,
• five string Violin,
• Fiddle.

Violin also have to sound holes that are pretty thin,

Violin don't have frets like guitars and have different bodies and different bridges than guitars.

 

Guitars

 

In Hurumanu two we have been learning about the guitar,

there are three types of guitar the acoustic, electric, and bass

the guitar is also the most common instrument nearly every band has at least one guitar in it.

Most guitars have a sound hole in it to make the sound louder but the electric guitar does not have a sound hole because of that it is very quiet that is why you must plug it into an amp.

most guitars have six strings in it but some guitars have 12 while others only have 4 strings. Also a lot of musical artists play the guitar like Stan Walker, Billy ray Cyrus  and Jimi Hendrix.

My hero

 In Hurumanu we have been learning about our heroes and we had to choose one person who was our favourite hero and this is what we came up with.

My goals for next time is to practice on my punctuation,

my other goal for writing is to use interesting words next time,and for my last goal is to use better  ideas.

Movement

 In drama we have been learning about movement, we have been walking in circles.

We also had to perform a dance to some music on the stage we had a lot of fun doing that.

Then we played 7 up where you stand in a circle and count up to seven once you get to seven you have to put your hand above your head say seven if you point your hand left then the person on your left will have to start at one but, if you get a number wrong then you must sit down.

We also played a game where you must stand in a pose and make it look realistic. 

We also practised our breathing while we listened to some calm relaxing music. 

 

Counting on the beat

 Definition of music.

In Hurumanu we have been learning about music and this is what we learned about 

Music are notes sounds and beats that are put together to make a type of tune.

What types are there?

Rap Jazz country hip hop classic blues metal heavy metal 

calm depressing pop karaoke electric singing soft rock n rock.

Where you can you find and experience music.

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• YouTube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to? 

• Rap

• Hip hop

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music.