“Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.”
AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini
"Many people think that music they don’t like is boring but….what is boring
to one might be interesting to another.”
COMPOSER
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Maestro Minnie Flight of the Bumble Bee (1999)
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Played by violinist Jascha Heifetz
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Played on flute by James Galway
A version of the "Flight of the Bumble Bee"
was heard in an old TV show called the "Green Hornet"
Played by trumpeter Al Hirt
HERE IS A VERSION OF THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE FOR CHILDREN:
http://gentlebirth.org/nutcracker/FlightoftheBumblebee.mp3
GENERAL MUSIC:
01. MUSICAL ALPHABET WORKSHEET GRAPHS (continued)
........a. DISCUSSED HOW TO START THE MUSIC ALPHABET WORD LIST (THE NEXT WORKSHEET)
02. RECORDER
........a. WARM-UP: ECHO RHYTHMS WITHOUT FINGERS DOWN FOR ARTICULATION and TONE
........b. HOW A RECORDER WORKS
.............1) ADDING FINGERS DOWN CONSECUTIVELY MAKES THE TUBE LONGER
.............2) THE LONGER THE TUBE THE LOWER THE SOUND
.............3) SOUND IS CREATED BY BLOWING AIR DOWN THE TUBE AND AS THE AIR HITS THE EDGE OF THE BLOW HOLE IT STARTS A VIBRATION
...................a) THE VIBRATION CAUSES A SOUND WAVE
........c. LEARNING HOW TO PUT FINGERS DOWN
.............1) LEFT VERSUS RIGHT HAND (THE REASON WHY THE LEFT HAND IS PLACED ON TOP)
.............2) PROPER LEFT THUMB PLACEMENT
.............3) HOW TO SEAL THE HOLES WITH THE FLESHY PART OF THE FINGER TIP (DEPRESSING THE PAD OF THE FINGER DOWN INTO THE FINGER HOLES)
.............4) SQUEAKING SOUNDS CAN BE CAUSED BY NOT SEALING THE FINGER HOLES PROPERLY
.........d. ECHO RHYTHMS WITH FINGERING T1 and T12
ADV. STRINGS
01. CABALITO
........a. WORKED ON GETTING THE BASS LINE and ACCOMPANIMENT FIT WITH THE MELODY
02. HOUDINI
........a. WORKED ON THE SHIFTING SECTION (USING GUIDE NOTES)
BEG. STRINGS
01. WARM-UP: 1ST FINGER SHIFTING THE MAJOR SCALE ON EACH STRING
02. LOS MACHETES (MELODY)
........a. WORKED ON PART 3
..............1) WORKED ON BOWING
..............2) WORKED ON ARTICULATION
........b. ADDED THE FIRST PHRASE TO THE SECOND PHRASE
03. HOUDINI (HARMONY)
04. YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME