Star of Christmas - Choir

We have a special opportunity coming up for our school. Bloomfield Foodland has asked us to come to their store on November 27th at 3:00 to take part in a video with staff and community members. Sobey's and Foodland are having a competition in each Atlantic province for stores to record the Sobey's "Star of Christmas" song. The winning store in each province will receive $5000! If our Foodland wins it would mean $5000 for our school music program!

If your son or daughter is participating in the choir, a media release form will be sent home this week to allow the film to be published on facebook and used for other purposes. Forms should be returned before the end of this week. We will be meeting around 3:00 after school dismissal. Your child will be dropped off at Foodland by the buses but they will need a drive home. We encourage as many parents as possible to come for 3:00 as well so sing along with us.

More info can be found here:

https://www.sobeys.com/en/star-of-christmas/

Practice with this video at home:

Rock Band Tryouts - Here's what you do

If you are auditioning for Rock Band this week, this is what you have to do. Remember that it doesn't have to be perfect, I'm just looking for how quickly you can learn something. I might be showing you how to do it during the audition.

As a note, keep in mind that each of the two bands have 12-15 students that want to join but I only have room for 8 to 9 students in each band. Preference will be given to grade 5 and 6 students as they only have one to two years left to play with the band whereas the grade 4's have 3 more years at Bloomfield. If you don't get into the band this year then you will be in the band next year!

Vocals: Song of your choice. Must have a youtube "karaoke" version to use for singing.

Drums: Basic rock beat using the bass drum, snare drum and hihat. Music is here. x is hihat, lowest note is kick drum, middle note is snare.

Guitar: Play (strum) through these basic chords. You only have to use the three skinniest strings to play.

|C  C  C  C  |Em Em Em Em |G  G  G  G  |Em Em Em Em |

Piano: Same chords as the guitar. You'll also need to show me a C Major scale and one other scale of your choice.

|C  C  C  C  |Em Em Em Em |G  G  G  G  |Em Em Em Em |

Drum Machine Link for First Project

https://www.pluraldev.com/drumbit/

Music X-Change - What do you have to include?

Hi folks,
     Here are the things you should mention when doing your music exchange:

*Artist/Band
*Name of Song
*Lyrics- favorite line
*Info on artist/band
*Instruments
Musical information (key, tempo, rhythm)
*Why you like the song
Additional Notes/Comments

The parts with the * beside them must be included. All other parts can be added if you like. Please make sure you choose a song that is appropriate (no bad words or bad images) for school. We can use a "clean" video on Youtube if you cannot find an appropriate version of your song.

Meaghan Blanchard Visits Bloomfield - Grades 4, 5, and 6 Songwriting Workshop

Have a listen to the songs that Meaghan Blanchard helped our music classes write today:

The Big Thing Is:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByJlVqwvyymza2Z0alFoc0JVRzA

Down by the Sandhills:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByJlVqwvyymza2Z0alFoc0JVRzA

Music Exchange Rubric for Grade 6

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v0Fs2fu9hqaWGvsw_8__UV45av7wNTHRiCBAWC2pgqQ/edit?usp=sharing

Grade 6 Grad Song

Sing a long with these versions of Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi:

Karaoke: