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Dayspring Youth Choir
The first day of Dayspring Youth Choir was incredible. Thank you to everybody that came to the first rehearsal. Today we started to learn two pieces and set goals for our journey this year. First, we want to have fun. Music is exciting and brings people together, and we hope to capture that in our time together. Members of our ensemble come from differing musical experiences. By the end of our time together this year we hope to learn how to read music, and other basic musical skills. We want to be able to take this knowledge a
nd be able to apply this knowledge in our future. Lastly, we hope to sing advanced music. This will come with time, and we hope that as we gain more members, our musical repertoire can increase in difficulty.
For next week, try to bring two friends with you to youth choir. Also, our ensemble needs a new name. Dayspring Youth Choir is ok, but it doesn’t have a great ring to it. Come to choir next Sunday with fun names in mind. Don’t forget, if you can talk you can sing. See you next week at 11:15 in the choir room.
High and Low Sounds
Having students recognize high sounds and low sounds is one of the first steps to a quality music education. This game is a great assessment for whether or not young students can recognize high and low sounds, and they have a blast doing it!
Recruitment Video
Recruiting into your beginning music program can be a challenge. By using a recruiting video, you eliminate the hassle of pulling all of your instruments for every demonstration, and you lose some of the wow factor that can be found in a video. This video was created for the Art of Teaching Beginning Instrumentalist class at Arizona State University.
If I were to produce this video again, a few changes would be made. First, the demonstrations of instruments were fantastic, I believe that it would be beneficial if more were shown in the video itself. The picture demonstrations worked well, but it was hard to see just how large or small some instruments are. Along these same lines, another change would be to have different genders show different instruments. Unfortunately, in our video the instruments played by the people of the group were stereotypical to the gender. This was unintentional, but it is something to be aware of the next time a video is produced. The final update that would be helpful would be to edit the sound level of background music over speaking sections. At times, it is hard to hear over the background music.
Overall I thought that this video turned out very well, and it wouldn’t have been possible without every member of our group. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Jake White 