Australia Music Teaching Folio

Australian Music is mostly facilitated by diversity rising from several influences, styles, and genres. The Australian music class is when organized into various categories that are to include the various primary sources such as the literacy through singing, teaching pentatonic, through a showing of films to children, tips on leading a singing session and the exploration of grammar through music. In teaching music, one can use the Jolly Music or the EYFS learning goals. According to the Australian educator Zoltan Kodaly, literacy through singing encourages learning of a variety of subjects such as mathematics (Burnard, & Murphy, 2017). Also, a pentatonic scale. Example of a pentatonic scale is the interactive whiteboard. The interactive whiteboard not only allows one to know which song is singing but also it allows an individual to master how such songs are pronounced and hence they easily master the song.

Another primary source is to make the use of soundtracks. Soundtracks focus on the use of music mostly in children movies to convey particular messages and feelings. Singing also requires specific sitting postures for one to express their voices and not to appear as straining firmly (Martin, 2017). One should better be standing with their shoulders wide apart.

Other than the primary sources, there are also secondary sources which promote the leaning of music. They include getting students excited about the piece of literature. Excitement results from using things such as exciting songs and or even use of idols such movie idols and musicians that the audience likes. Encouraging participation during the study is also important. Students are more likely to remain active, and to grasps information more quickly (McMahon, 2017). Other than encouraging participation, the teacher should also allow the remaining individuals to study the materials covering the history of Australia. The instructor should also listen and give preference to the Australian folk and music from a variety of social-cultural and historical contexts. The students may also participate and remain active in the environment beyond the classroom.

Instrumentation

Piccolo

Flute 1

Flute 2

Oboe ½

Bassoon ½ et cetera.

Other important factors to consider is taking a deeper dive into the program related to the piece of literature under study. Playing with sounds as sounds track is also important since it reinforces understanding (Lebler, 2015). Tonal variation and style variation is also used in depicting several themes and mood within the piece of literature. It also helps indulge the audience into the piece of literature and hence promoting their understanding.

Guitar

For one to understand tab, basic guitar knowledge is a must. The guitar’s neck is a protruding extension of the body. Frets are metal stuff that is found alongside the neck of the guitar and run parallel to each other and at a perpendicular angle to those strings from the topmost end to the bottom end of the neck. In most cases guitar can have 22 to about 24 frets, this depends on the type of music played and the type of the guitar. Earlier mentioned is the strings that align or run the distance of the neck. Usually, a guitar contains six strings, but special styles like folk guitars contain twelve strings while others like metal guitars use seven strings.

Guitarists play notes by putting their fingers in the fret positions, which is the gap between across the tab -sheet page. Tab –sheet is a leaf of paper whereby a tablature is recorded. The six lines represent the six strings in a guitar. Also, those lines are labelled with numbers showing which the fret to press down (Shannona et al., 2016). Guitar tablature also has a unique notation for the chords. These are denoted as lead sheet. Lead sheet functionality depends on a short music hand, to show a song through a solo jotted melody together with symbols. Chord charts is another form of chording in tablature. Difference between lead sheets and chord charts is that the latter makes use of some standard notation in music to depict the way the long chord can be played.

Guitar tablature is available in both guitar tutorial volumes and tablature guitar websites, but the most utilized is the guitar tutorial volumes. A bigger percentage of the websites permits the users to upload tablature in their websites, the reason behind it is since the tablature utilizes the line and the numbers structure to give an overall presentation of music to be played on the guitar neck. It is written with ease on a computers word processor program which explains why it can be uploaded with ease. In most scenarios with the websites, learners (musicians) edit and create guitar tabs and other guitarists permitted to rate them based on importance and accuracy. The first step to creating a tab by users is, listening to the recorded work, followed by decreasing the musical tab by analysing the key plus the chord structure of the planning. With most current songs having a common chord structure, it becomes easy to determine the chord structures. For instance, blues and rock most of them use chord progression of I, IV, V.

References

Burnard, P., & Murphy, R. (2017). Teaching music creatively. Taylor & Francis.

Lebler, D. (2015). The BoPMAT: Bachelor of Music Popular Music Program. In Assessment in Music Education: from Policy to Practice (pp. 221-235). Springer, Cham.

Martin, C. B. (2017). master of music composition folio.

McMahon, K. R. (2017). Portfolio Careers in the Music Industry. Australian Musicians Interviewed: Career Investigation Report. GRIN Verlag.

Shannona, A. G., Galeazzi, M., & Krawczyk-Bernotas, Z. (2016). GRADUATE FOLIO PRESENTATIONS IN THE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION METHODOLOGY, 7(3), 1158-1175.