Yesterday we started an assessment bunch in choir class. This will continue tomorrow. This is a class of mostly freshman. This is a challenging group of social drama. Days like this when a million things are going on can be crazy. It worked OK yesterday.
Sample Student Work
Three groups:
1. Each student gets 15 minutes to record themselves singing one of our five solo songs we are studying (On My Own, Its a Grand Night, etc...). Two iPads are in the room. One on a Griffin stand facing them (recorder) and another one with iTunes set up with the accompaniment (player). I hope to sit with each student to analyze their performance. The video does not lie...
2. The second group used garageband to record "I'm Yours". Earlier we had taken a class where students had used the Six Strings app to accompany themselves while they sing. This is not a skill normally done in choir. Today I demonstrated for ten minutes how to lay down a bass, guitar, drum, and vocal track. Some of the student work was amazing and sounds like a professional recording. However, most students DID NOT keep time with the accompaniment and got ahead. We will re-do. This assignment works really, really well for teaching theory.
3. The third group worked in groups of five at a table to learn a "Girls Garden" which is one of our songs for the Spring. I am trying to "teach" practicing. They sang along with the youTube tapes. The groups worked well together and "knew" the song by the end of the period.
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