Rhythms in Everyday Life

Rhythms can be sounded out using anything Rhythms can be sounded out using anything. You can use your body – mouth, hands, fingers, or feet – to capture a rhythm. You can also use found instruments – ordinary objects like your pencil, keys, backpack, or desktop. The Bottle Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771injTWvvc

STOMP -One Musical Group famous for its use of found instruments is STOMP. This modern dance troupe combines exciting choreography with rhythms created from everyday objects. -Their goal is to invite people to listen to the world in a different way and hear music where maybe they didn’t think there was music before. Activity: As you watch the video, identify the meter of the piece performed by STOMP. How many different ways do they create sounds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8jICj8juc Activity: Miss Sperotto will divide the class into 4 groups. Each group will have a different rhythm that will be taught to them with a different noise they need to make. Perform with all groups playing their parts at the same time. 1. X 2. x 3. 4.

Improvisation -Music invites us to make new combinations of sound. We may find ourselves humming or whistling our own tune or tapping a rhythm that we make up. This kind of spontaneous musical invention is called improvisation. The improviser is simultaneously a composer and a performer. -Improvisers don’t usually do whatever they want. They keep what they do in certain boundaries to keep the piece together so it makes sense. -Improvisation is an art with many techniques and is a way of making music a form of direct self-expression. -Scientists believe that music improvisation is among the highest forms of human thinking. It Don’t Mean a Thing if You Ain’t Got That Swing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FvsgGp8rSE