Welcome to the Beginner Cello Online Portal!
AMP Virtual music enrichment is designed to provide distance learning enrichment including music literacy worksheets, music apps to improve home practice sessions, and inspiring videos of professional musicians and ensembles.
Home Practice Apps Starter Set
These two free mobile apps are all you need to support your home practice sessions
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Weekly Learning Objectives
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 6
You've now found a few sounds you can make with objects from around your house. Find a picture or a video of a place that you like or just imagine yourself there, then try to to recreate the feeling of that place with your found sounds. Record about 1 minute of your sound and send it to me!
You can use any voice memo app, Garage Band, Ableton (if you have it), Quicktime, or use this easy online voice recorder: https://online-voice-recorder.com/
Simply follow the link, click the red circle, allow the website to access your microphone, and then record your audio. When you are happy with your recording, click save to download the file.
You can use any voice memo app, Garage Band, Ableton (if you have it), Quicktime, or use this easy online voice recorder: https://online-voice-recorder.com/
Simply follow the link, click the red circle, allow the website to access your microphone, and then record your audio. When you are happy with your recording, click save to download the file.
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 5
Watch the following video by the electronic music group Matmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toET6yTWAE
Listen to "Vegetables" by The Beach Boys
Find 3 objects around your house to use to make music. Find at least 10 sounds that you can make with these objects. Be prepared to share next Monday!
Listen to "Vegetables" by The Beach Boys
Find 3 objects around your house to use to make music. Find at least 10 sounds that you can make with these objects. Be prepared to share next Monday!
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 4
Watch this 16 minute video of a piece by Benjamin Britten, then answer a few questions! The goal of this assignment is to learn how to listen in detail and practice using descriptive language to talk about music. Access the video here: https://youtu.be/4vbvhU22uAM
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 3
This week's assignment is to practice sight reading rhythms!
Visit this site: https://practicesightreading.com/create.php to create examples. In the lower left hand corner under "Create," you can set the time signature (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), how many measures, and the level of difficulty. Explore the different functions and try many different examples! Start by reading the rhythm and clapping it. You can also print examples and write the counting underneath. Then, you can listen to the example by clicking play. Happy practicing!
Visit this site: https://practicesightreading.com/create.php to create examples. In the lower left hand corner under "Create," you can set the time signature (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), how many measures, and the level of difficulty. Explore the different functions and try many different examples! Start by reading the rhythm and clapping it. You can also print examples and write the counting underneath. Then, you can listen to the example by clicking play. Happy practicing!
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 2
Your assignment for this week is to watch "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from the Disney movie Fantasia. This is a film from 1940 that uses pieces of classical music to accompany short films. Upload a short reflection, either as a 7-8 sentence written reflection or a 45-60 second video clip.
Here is a link to the clip (~10min): https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasia-4ea9ebc01a74ea59a5867853
Watch the scene twice- first, just for fun. The second time, listen to the music carefully- do the instruments represent certain characters? What is the mood? Can you tell which instrument is playing what part? If you had to make a film to this piece of music, what would it be about?
Here is a link to the clip (~10min): https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasia-4ea9ebc01a74ea59a5867853
Watch the scene twice- first, just for fun. The second time, listen to the music carefully- do the instruments represent certain characters? What is the mood? Can you tell which instrument is playing what part? If you had to make a film to this piece of music, what would it be about?
PLAYING GOALS: WEEK 1
Your task–should you choose to accept it–is to find a video and write a short report of 8-10 sentences on one of the following great cellists: Camille Thomas, Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic, Anne Gastinel, Myung-Wha Chung, Sol Gabetta, Mischa Maisky, Tina Guo, Kian Soltani, Antonio Meneses, Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Please include a link to your video.
Instructions:
1. Find a video of your cellist. Write down the title of the piece, the composer, and the names of the other performers in the video (if it's an orchestra, just say which orchestra).
2. What is something you notice about your cellist's playing?
3. What is one question you have about your cellist's playing?
4. Try to answer some of the following questions: what time period is the piece they are playing? What historical events were going on at that time? Where is the composer from? Where is the cellist from? How old is the cellist? Is it a piece for solo cello? Small group? Orchestra?
Instructions:
1. Find a video of your cellist. Write down the title of the piece, the composer, and the names of the other performers in the video (if it's an orchestra, just say which orchestra).
2. What is something you notice about your cellist's playing?
3. What is one question you have about your cellist's playing?
4. Try to answer some of the following questions: what time period is the piece they are playing? What historical events were going on at that time? Where is the composer from? Where is the cellist from? How old is the cellist? Is it a piece for solo cello? Small group? Orchestra?