Y Pant Music

Have you been good? 8X1 say you’d better have behaved yourself if you want any presents!
To get you in the Christmas spirit, here’s a recording of them singing a Christmas favourite. Enjoy!

Rudolph

Great singing today from 8Y1 and 8Ys, who combined to give us this nice two-part version of ‘Only You’. Enjoy!

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PS: sorry it’s late, I’ve been off sick – hope you enjoy it!

Just before lunch today, a huge combined Year 8 class sang two-part harmony very nicely. The recording is quite rough but hopefully you can enjoy it!

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It was great to hear 8X1 singing so well first thing on a Monday morning. We didn’t have time to make a proper recording – we’ll try and do that next lesson – but here’s a taste of what’s to come!

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If you were in the year 8 lesson before lunch today, you will remember that we were singing Rule the World by Take That. I promised you the recording, and here it is – enjoy!

The volume level goes up and down a bit throughout the recording, but hopefully you get the idea. You were good for a first try! We’ll improve on that sound in our lessons throughout this half term. Well done!

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Some more nice examples of adverts for YPF ’09 – this one was submitted by Trystan and James in Year 7.

This one came from Naween and John in Year 9

Finally, this one is by Lowis in Year 8.

Well done everyone!

We’ve had some nice adverts for the festival submitted by pupils, so if time allows I’ll be showcasing some of them here on the site. Here’s the first one, by Natasha Vincent in Year 7.

Click the picture to see the full-sized image.

Our Year 8 pupils worked on a project called Space Invaders earlier this year. They had to imagine what kind of music would accompany a film or TV show with that title, and use Reason to create it. The piece only needed to be short, but we were looking for a very futuristic sound, with ostinatos and drones.

Here are four of the most successful results – well done to these pupils, your work was excellent!

Download Connor Parry & Sam Pryor

Download Pippa Loam and Charlotte Prichard

Download Paul Karamura & Arran Watt

Download Louise Morgan & Alex Rogers

Enjoy!

Space Invaders image from scalleja on Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons, some rights reserved.

Here’s a nice piece of work by two of our year 8 pupils, Jane and Hannah. They’ve been using Michael Nyman’s Time Lapse as the basis for a little project based on sequencing. Have a listen to the piece they’ve made using Nyman’s piece as a starting point. Well done both!

Download Jane and Hannah – Time Lapse

With this amazingly hot weather we’ve been having, the music rooms have been rather overheated. Sixteen computers in room 62 mean that we don’t even turn the radiators on in the middle of winter because we don’t need them. You can imagine what that means when it’s as hot as it has been this week.

Add to that the fact that there have been exams upstairs in room 68, meaning that we can’t make noise, and there’s only been one solution. We’ve been grabbing every percussion instrument we can lay our hands on and heading off down the field to learn about samba playing!

Although it looks like a whole lot of fun (and probably sounds like a terrible racket to the rest of the staff!), those of you who have tried it will have worked out that playing the layered samba rhythms, and following the call-and-response patterns, is not as easy as it looks, especially outside. One small lapse in concentration mean that you can get totally lost!

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