Wider Opportunities in Year 4

Year 4 have been learning the flute but as part of their music lessons Matt, the teacher, has been using chair drumming to introduce rhythm and tempo.

Check out the video!

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11 Comments

  1. Zainab 4pw says:

    We did it again yesterday (Monday, 4th February 2013), and it was actually a really good experience!

  2. zoe4jw says:

    sooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Mustafa4JW says:

    I can see faiz and yusuf are really breaking thier chairs they must have had fun

  4. Mustafa 4JW says:

    I ❤ banging my chair
    It was extraordernery (soory if i got a spelling mistake)

  5. Zainab 4pw says:

    Yes yes, music is very complicated!
    First you have tempo, then you have dynamics, then pitch, then rhythm that goes on top of a beat – Wait! I think it’s the other way round! Or is it?

    Oh I GIVE UP!!

  6. zoe4jw says:

    I liked banging our chairs.It looked like we were breaking them.

  7. rebecca 4pw says:

    it was realy fun

  8. Charlotte Seal says:

    Matt did it in our classrom as well and it was ……… ASWOME!!!!!!! Matt said if we hit to hard we would break our fingers but i actully WANTED TO break it

  9. Josef says:

    BANG! BANG! BANG!! That’s all I did!!

  10. caitlin 4JW says:

    it was cool

  11. Zainab 4pw says:

    It was sooooooo fun!

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