Someone in my class - I don't remember who - challenged me to play 'Shotgun' on my guitar when I had it in school. At the time, I couldn't: I love the guitar but I've never learned anything except a few basic chords. Lockdown seemed the right time to practise... and to get my family involved with making a music video!
EC2, I miss you, I hope you enjoy this! Thanks for inspiring me!
Art / Creative Activities:
I really recommend the app I can animate. There is a free version which I use and it is so much fun making your own stop-motion animations (animations using photographs). It is how I made the animation at the top of the page.
Music Activities:
Rhythm Cat is a good music app, a fun game to play along to with a fun soundtrack, which aims at learning to read the most common musical rhythms.
I have been practising my recorder during lockdown. I started playing the recorder when I was 10, and had lessons until I was 18, but since then I have only played it every now and then. I've taught myself a new piece, and I thought I would give a little concert!
The piece is called 'Pan Overheard'. I explain a bit about that in the introduction to the video, but I forgot to mention that Pan - a Greek god - played an instrument called the panpipes. This piece is supposed to sound like Pan playing his panpipes to himself in a forest.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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