Music Making: Rhythm and Harmony


 Rhythm Games ✓ "Rhythm Banquet" Percussion for kids children and adults

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Data reveal that formal music experience is neither necessary nor sufficient to enhance the brain’s neural encoding and perception of sound.

Source: Inherent Auditory Skills Rather Than Training

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TODAY

 Today in class we each used our imagination to create harmonies with our fellow students. It was interesting because there was no planning, it was all improvisation. We connected through our rhythm. We played off of each others energies. This created harmony.

Sample Lesson Plan

Team Members:

Olivia Dobrin
Sydney Kramer
Sydney Feyerick
Bryan Early
Will Shields
Shelia McAndrew
Robert Burns
Molly Halbach
Kayla Pournazarian


Objective: To create harmony between students with limited resources.
 
Concept: Harmony, rhythm and improvisation
 
Activity: have students pick instruments or create their own and have them work together to create music, rhythm, and harmonies.
 
Materials: interments that are available or the students can create their own
        -drums, flutes, etc
Math for counting
physics for pitch
 
Assessment: was noise made? were the students enthusiastic? were they creative? how many different noises were made? assignment—> play a certain number of beats they have to count them out loud
high school

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