Musical Instruments - Nanogirl - Summer Learning Journey Wha Tekau

Today for Summer Learning Journey we had a Nanogirl task. It was to make musical instruments out of random things in your house.

Did you know that musical instruments were invented in 2800 BC or earlier? The oldest musical instrument in the world is a Neanderthal flute (I will put an image below this paragraph) Which was made from a bone of a young cave bear and has four holes.

Here is the Neanderthal Flute:

I enjoyed making my musical instruments because I could pretty much make something make noise when I hit them or make noise when I blow on them. I also liked glueing the straws together to make the harmonica.

I found it tricky to make the mugs ding when I hit them. I tried to fill the mugs with more or less water but they did not seem to change. I think that I should have used glass but because I have really young siblings we can't really have glass because if my youngest brother, who is 1, would throw them so we only have plastic glasses. I thought using the ceramic mugs we have would help make a better sound but it didn't work as well as I thought it would. 

Thank you for reading my blog, here are my musical instruments:

Music Made Of Random Things Summer Learning Journey Tekau Ma Rima

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we made music out of random things. I made my music out of a grater, whisk, pepper shaker and a cup filled with water.

I enjoyed making lots of noise because quite often babies are asleep so we need to stay a bit quiet. So I made sure I asked before making so much noise! This activity was really fun, easy and I could not find anything hard.

Next time I would try and make it longer than 11 seconds long because most songs are about 3 minutes long. To make it more like a real song I'll need to make it longer.

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Whirikoka Gamefroot

For 3 weeks we have been using a site called Gamefroot to make a game. I am not finished but I want some feedback. Sorry I haven't blogged in a while because I was helping with others on their blogs. I enjoyed making the game because I love to code and I find it interesting. I found it tricky to pick music because there were so many! I chose to mix in two pieces of music by Reuben and Francis. 

Play my game here:

Whirikoka by KylahLoftus / Full screen / Remix in Gamefroot

Summer Song Maker

 Today for summer learning journey I had to make a summer song using Chrome Music lab. Mine was inspired by the sounds of cicadas, crickets and happy birds of summer! I then decided to play with the music more and managed to work out how to play twinkle twinkle little star. Next I wrote a song about summer to the twinkle twinkle little star tune. Did you know the tune of twinkle twinkle little star is the same tune as the abc song and very similar to baa baa black sheep?

I had so much fun doing all of this I researched how to make one of my favourite songs on music lab, then learnt how to make chords in there as well! 

My favourite part of this was making my favourite song sound even better by putting chords in with the song! I found it challenging at first to work out what colour what which note.  Next time I would do more than just the part at the start of my favourite song. I want to learn how to read music faster to make this all easier to do. 

Here is my summer song maker based on cicadas, crickets and happy birds:

Here is my twinkle twinkle base song:

this is a voice recording of me singing my summer song to the twinkle twinkle little star tune:

 

Here is my favourite song. Can you guess what it is? Without chords:

Here it is with chords:

Hero song by cups and paper

Today for my summer learning journey I had to make a hero song with cups and paper. Nano Girl gave us this task too. I learnt how to play mary had a little lamb on the cups.

I liked playing the cups because it was the easiest bit.

It was hard to make the paper work because It kept on unrolling

Here is my slide deck: