Mrs. Wood, Choral Music, Maywood Middle School and Liberty Senior High School

Comforting Songs in Trying Times  a compilation of recommended listening from several renowned conductors
    and composers, taken from recordings of some of the nation's best choirs

Handwashing Song Challenge!!  See the new handwashing songs created by two of the geniuses behind some of our favorite Broadway shows.  Here is the original article in the New YorkTimes:  
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/well/we-wrote-you-a-hand-washing-song-listen-up.html 

     Here are some of the current actors starring in Broadway shows singing "20 Seconds" and "Half a Minute"
          https://twitter.com/artslandia/status/1241431926298140672 Samantha Williams "20 Seconds"
          https://twitter.com/i/status/1241431843490025473 Jake Ryan Flynn "20 Seconds"
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQa_ktB5V8  Liz Calloway "Half a Minute"

     And here are the piano tracks, lyrics, and lead sheets.  Get Creative!  Create a video of yourself singing
     and washing, and with parental permission, post it on instagram to the site:  #20secondhandwash! 
         1.  20 Seconds (Lyrics), 20 Seconds Demo Track with Marc Shaiman, Piano/Vocal Sheet Music, Lead Sheet,
              piano track Alto, piano track Soprano, piano track for Soprano 2, piano track Tenor/Bari
         2.  Half a Minute Waltz (Lyrics), Half a Minute Demo Track with Marc Shaiman, Piano/Vocal Sheet Music,
              Lead Sheet, piano track Alto, piano track Soprano/High Tenor, piano track Tenor/Bari
 King County Library System is a wonderful source for enrichment activities of all kinds.  Click here for directions.
Some good links to Youtube videos, for viewing and study:)
        Rick Beato "Everything Music" - great site!
        "You Will be Found" featuring the 2019 Jimmy Awards Nominees (great version!)
          Only Boys Aloud - Choir Program in Wales - "You Will Be Found" sung by choirs all over Wales
         Fascinating voice lesson session with Katherine McPhee and Natalie Weiss (pop/show)

 Live Streaming Performances Online: There are so many great concerts, plays, and arts events to access!
    In this time of uncertainty and distance, the arts community is coming together to offer performances that can help to
      bring us together.  Music helps us remember that we are all connected!  Want to talk about a song, an opera story, a
      favorite performance?   Mrs. Wood is ready to chat! Email her at woodr2@issaquah.wednet.edu .  
        San Francisco Conservatory of Music "Tiny Dorm" concerts -- each evening from 5 - 6:30 pm
          The New York Philharmonic Plays On!
          The Metropolitan Opera sends a Nightly Stream of Great Performances
          The Seattle Symphony Live Stream
          Lincoln Center at Home Pop up Classrooms and Concerts
          The Globe Theatre - Shakespeare Streams online
           Jazz at Lincoln Center!

Take a break, grab your siblings and parents, and have some musical fun!
    Fun with Body Percussion:  Can you follow these? 
               Get inspired!    Make your own patterns, then film your creation!
Body Percussion tutorial (using Coldplay) - rhythms written and highlighted for reference!
Avila Percussion Group, In the Hall of the Mountain King
Tutorial - Body Percussion Patterns for Form for Waltz No.2 (Shostakovich)
Glacier HS students: Original Body Percussion
Body Percussion is 6/8 time signature - African body percussion and vocalization - a tutorial!
El Saltiro -- SSM BigHand - body percussion (group, solos, call and response)

Build Your Own Beats Using this Site:
IncrediBox
...create your own mix, then record and share! (use demo, or download your own app)

Helpful links for Music Theory:  Links, videos, online tutorials.   
Don't take this journey too seriously.  There is a musical artist inside everyone!  It is important to understand and be literate in the musical language, of course, but don't forget what the great Charlie Parker had to say:  “First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that stuff, and just play.” 
The Circle of 5ths Made Clear
How to Build a Scale - Music Theory Crash Course! (Major Scale, Minor Scale, Chromatic Scale)
Shortcut to Deciphering the Key Signature 
Reading Vocal Lines:  free Sight Reading Factory.com
Tailor your own sight reading experience HERE