Different Trains: Day 3

At our third class we reviewed how to use the recorders and we also reviewed the work we did with them in our last class. Then Laura put “Come Out” back on and showed everyone how to create a repeating phrase that matched a section of “Come Out.” We talked about improv and about being composers and about “musical form.” Laura played “Twinkle” and asked us to figure out the pattern the composer used.

Laura: “Can anyone figure it out?”
Justin: “I just know how to play it.”
Laura: “But how do you memorize something like that?”
Anthony: “At the end, it does the first one!”
Laura: “Yes! The end is the same as the beginning. It’s a very common musical form called A-B-A.”

Then we split up into pairs to interview each other, asking questions we came up with last week: Where are you from? Where do you want to be from? Where are you going? Where do you want to be going?”

After we were done interviewing, we moved to the computers and worked on editing our audio files.

At the end of class, everyone got a CD to take home with their audio file so they could practice creating phrases with their instruments based on parts of their audio files.