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Smart Music One |
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Lesson designed for: Fine Arts - Music 1 Band - Development of Increased Technical Facility Unit
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In this lesson students will access a music software program named Smart Music on a school computer in a lab located in the band hall.
Students will then perform a series of musical exercises that have been pre-loaded into Smart Music program will compare the notes that are played with the actual notes that are written and will identify any note that is incorrect in pitch or played at the wrong time due to incorrect rhythm, rushing, or dragging.
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In this lesson students will access a music software program named Smart Music on a school computer in a lab located in the band hall.
Students will then perform a series of musical exercises that have been pre-loaded into Smart Music program will compare the notes that are played with the actual notes that are written and will identify any note that is incorrect in pitch or played at the wrong time due to incorrect rhythm, rushing, or dragging.
Students have the option of repeating the recording process if they wish to improve their score or submitting the score of the previously played exercise. If they wish to submit, their score will be emailed automatically to the directors email address.
Thinking skills and Technology Integration: Students will have to identify, analyze, and create (synthesize) the correct notes and rhythms shown in the pre-loaded exercises. With immediate feedback and identification of any notes that are incorrect, a student may request additional help by either seeing the correct fingering or listening to the sample being played correctly by the computer before playing it again.
This lesson used Multimedia to help teach the following essential knowledge and skills:
§117.60.(1)(A) - The student is expected to identify melodic and harmonic parts when listening to and/or performing music.
§117.60.(1)(B) - The student is expected to define concepts of intervals, music notation, chord structure, rhythm/meter, and musical performances using standard terminology.
§117.60.(1)(C) - The student is expected to compare and contrast elements of music through literature selected for performance and/or listening.
http://www.smartmusic.com/SmartMusic/Default.aspx?p=1
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Software Needed: Smart Music
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Hardware Needed: computer, microphone
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Internet Resources: |
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Web Resource 1
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