Music Bulletin Week Beginning – 6th July 2020 Your musical update from Ms Charatan, Ms Welch and Ms Li Hello everyone! This is our penultimate Music bulletin before the Summer break. This week, we have collected songs that we hope will resonate with you the most – the same year as you were born! They are all top hits songs from your birth year and we hope they keep you motivated and energetic through your week! As always, keep emailing in your work, suggestions and responses to the bulletin – we would love to hear them. Have a good week! AJK Songs of the Week: Songs from year you were born! Y7: Umbrella – Rihanna ft. Jay-Z This song is a pop, hip pop, and R&B song with rock elements. (2007) Can you hear all the elements? This is also the number one on the 10 Best Singles of 2007! ARK JOHN KEATS Y8: Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz (2005) This song was listed in Rolling Stone’s Best Songs of the 2000s. It was also nominated for three Grammys at the 2006 Grammy Awards! Y9: Since U Been Gone – Kelly As of 2014, this song has appeared in more than 40 different Clarkson (2004) albums either remixed or in its original format! Try to search this song and find me your favourite remix/cover! Y10: This Love – Maroon 5 (2004) This song entered the top ten on most charts around the world! Topping several of Billboard magazine’s charts. Have a look its weekly chart here! Y11: Ignition (Remix) – R.Kelly A portion of Michael Jackson’s Private Home Movies, a 2003 compilation of home movies which Jackson recording through his (2002) life, showed him dancing to this song! Watch the clip here! Y12: A Thousand Miles – Vanessa This song has widespread success worldwide and is used in Carlton (2002) numerous films, adverts and TV shows. People can even recognise this song by just hearing the piano melody at the beginning! Practical music you can do at home: be curious and try some of these out! • Click here and find the #1 song on the day you were born and sing along with it! • Type a message here and make it a musical tone! • Recap a melody you have learnt in our past lessons on this virtual keyboard • Try and create your own unique sound using this online synthesiser • Visual musical minds: A youtube channel full of tutorials on a variety of songs and instruments. End of Year Concert! End of Year Concert Ideas Thanks for those who had emailed me your tracks! We need more submissions for our end of year concert! Your piece could be: Send to i.li@arkjohnkeatsacademy by 10th July • Something you already know (THIS FRIDAY!) • Something new (ideas in this music bulletin and past editions!) 1. Choose your piece (ideas in the next box→) • ‘Lean on Me’ Virtual Band – here are the links- 2. Practice it until it is perfect o Find the song tutorial here. 3. Record it or video it on your phone o Find the chords tutorial here (for keyboards, ukulele, guitar) 4. Send in to us! o Drums tutorial here (no drums actually needed!) More instructions can be found in your pillar day sessions on last Friday. o Original track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaexjc-1os Making Music at Home Music Challenge • Don’t forget about the ARK online platform CHALLENGE: Pen Tap! full of music enrichment opportunities. The Using just 2 pens and you can create music! password is Music Resources. • How to Pen tap - Pen tap tutorial • Learn how to Beatboxing here • Learn some basic beats here • Bucket Drumming - Don’t Start Now • Learn to cover ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ here! • Make some cool beat using Drumbit Challenge: learn three basic beats and use them to cover a song! • Look on this youtube channel for loads of great piano tutorials Staff Recommendation of The Week: Mr Jesnick Listening/Video Suggestions ‘Hero’ – Michael Kiwanuka Michael Kiwanuka is singer/songwriter who • Laura Downes Tiny Desk Concert – a great variety grew up in Haringey, not far from Enfield, after of artists here! his parents fled from Uganda during Idi Amin’s • A virtual performance on Zoom meeting of reign of terror. I first came across him on a Hamilton during lockdown podcast a couple of years ago and immediately • Here is a list of music that you can listen to on loved his music. He writes powerful, poetic sport day when completing the sport lyrics and has a really beautiful, soulful singing challenges voice. His latest album called ‘Kiwanuka’ is really • Here is a classical music podcast for some varied, so check it all out! I have recommended further listening the song ‘Hero’ because it is perhaps the most profound song on the album, paying tribute to Fred Hampton, one of the leaders of the Black Panthers. • Find out more famous female composers here .