FatBoy Slim Mixing Game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/fbs/intro.htm

Music and the Christian

A Great article on music in the lives of christians.

He addresses the big questions:

Why should a Christian be interested and involved in the arts, music in particular?

Recording your project into Sound Recorder

Check out the "How To" clip I have made to help you record the audio from your completed composition into the computer and send it to me :)

Country Music

Country music is a “mash up “of the Folk music and Rock or Pop music genres. It uses a variety of instruments that are commonly used in Folk music, but also has a more rock music style STRUCTURE to the songs. Many of the themes of the lyrics are either about love and loss, or about country or agricultural themes.

Some of the instruments used in country music are:

·       Banjo

·       Mandolin

·       Slide Guitar (Lap Steel)

·       Fiddle

·       Steel stringed acoustic guitar

·       Accordion

·       Double Bass

Try your hand at mixing your own songs as a DJ...

http://mix.until.am/

Have a go at being a DJ online.

Check out some scratching...

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/dj-turntable/

A cool mashup of 50 hit songs from 2011 into one piece of music.... WOW.



An early version of a mashup by "The KLF" called Doctorin' the Tardis.



From WIKI:

The release of "Doctorin' the Tardis" followed a self-imposed break from recording of Drummond and Cauty's sampling outfit, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs). The single continued The JAMs' strategy of plagiarising and juxtaposing popular musical works. However, unlike the cultish limited releases of The JAMs, in which Drummond's Clydeside rapping and social commentary were regular ingredients, "Doctorin' The Tardis" was an excursion into the musical mainstream, with the change of name to "The Timelords" and an overt reliance on several iconic symbols of 1970s and 80s British popular culture, including Glitter, theDoctor Who theme song, references to Doctor Who's Daleks and the TARDIS, Sweet's "Blockbuster!" and Harry Enfield's character 'Loadsamoney'.^[1] The song features riffs from the 1973 hit "Block Buster!" by Sweet and from Gary Glitter's 1972 debut hit "Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2". Its name is a reference to "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut.

Congratulations to both Year 7 classes for surviving your Assembly performances. I got some wonderful reviews from teachers and other students.

I hope that inspires you for the next one!

Coming up we will have a COMPOSITION assessment task to create a Dance Music piece using the Fat Boy Slim mixing Game as our composition tool.

If you like, go on to the site and start your creations at home, just make sure you save them somewhere you can access them at school :)



Hope your auditions for the Musical went well!