Monday, 3 November 2008

ASSESSMENT FOR YEAR 10

Hello Year 10.

I will be completing your school certificate assessment marks by tuesday, if you have not handed in any assessments that are outstanding you will recieve no marks for those assessments. This will also be reflected in your comments. Don't forget, your report will follow you for the rest of your life so get something to me to mark.

ONLY 5 DAYS to go!!!!

Enjoy! Mr B.

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Christmas Carols

Hi Elective Music (Yr 10)

I have found a site with pdf's of christmas carol music for you to download and use.

Please work on your own arrangements and practice for a recording in week 3 & 4 (6 &7 if you want to as well).

I may be on msn (stagnesmusic@hotmail.com) over the next few weeks if you are working from home.



Enjoy! Mr B.

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Elective music WHITE - COMPOSITIONS DUE TODAY

Hi Music WHITE.

Your work is due in TODAY. If it is not in my email or hand first thing tomorrow morning (15th Oct08) then you will loose 10% for 1 day late.
30% for Friday
60% for Monday
100% Tuesday.

You still must hand me something or you may become eligable for an N award for your school certificate next year. Just get the thing done. You should have seen me today if you needed an extension granted so there should be no one who needs one.

Enjoy! Mr B.

Friday, 19 September 2008

Year 8 Music - 19/9/08

Year 8 ONLINE TASK.

YEAR 3 STORY BOOK or SLIDESHOW.

Using the links about guitar, and your own research, you need to complete the following task.

  1. Open a slideshow in Neooffice.
  2. Goto FILE - NEW - Slideshow.
  3. Use images and simple language that a kid in year 3 could understand to show how the guitar has developed over the years.
  4. Start with the earliest versions of a guitar you can find and work forward to the guitars of today.
  5. Include details of what changed from each different guitar to the next in simple language or pictures.
  6. YOU SHOULD HAVE BETWEEN 5 and 8 SLIDES.
Save your work with each person in your groups names as the title to my USB that will be provided.

Have Fun, Mr B.

Year 7 Keyboard - 19/9/08

Use the links on the right of screen to create a history of the piano.

You have the following options:

Create a slideshow using NEOOFFICE (look for the ship in the application bar at the bottom of the screen like this one)

TASK: Create a powerpoint or word doc showing a brief history of the keyboard for a YEAR 1 class to watch and learn from. You need to use simple words that a 6 yr old can read and understand. Use pictures more than words. Include one famous player of the keyboard from any time in history.

Good Luck, Mr B.

Thursday, 4 September 2008

HEARING - Safety Lesson

Hearing loss in western society is tipped to be a major issue in the next 10 to 20 years and you people are the likely victims of this injury.
Complete the questions using the links in the blog to help you.


1. What happens to the “Hair Cells” if they are exposed to loud noises for a long time?
2. Describe or drawer the safest/most effective type of headphones for using in noisy areas.
3. How often should you take a break from listening to your mp3 player?
4. List some ways you can ensure you maintain safe listening practices.
5. What are some areas at school that you can identify that may cause hearing damage?
6. What measures can you take to make sure you do not suffer hearing loss when learning in those areas?
7. What is Tinnitus?
8. What things that you do now would be hard to do if you had tinnitus? Why?
9. Go to the link HEARING LOSS AND MP3 PLAYERS. Can you identify with any of the experiences in this article? If so describe your experience.
10. What are some practical things you can change in the way you listen to music to help you avoid hearing loss?


Enjoy! Mr B.

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Work for year 8 3 Sep 2008

Watch this....


Enjoy! Mr B.

Monday, 1 September 2008

Recording compositions

Hi Elective students,

This week you need to start thinking about recording our pieces for the assessment task. Even if you have only chords etc you can record them and put the vocals in later. If you are doing a solo piano piece see me and I will get you to play it into the computer and create a score. Make sure you can play with a beat for the recording.

If you need help recording using the computer see me or another stuident who has done it. I CANNOT SUPERVISE EVERY STUDENTS RECORDING AS THERE ARE 50 ELECTIVE MUSIC STUDENTS THIS YEAR. you need to take on the task of learning how to do a basic recording.

There is a link list on this blog for Garage Band recording instructions and I will put some up for Acid Pro 6/Express.


Enjoy! Mr B.