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World Music Drumming
Guitar Class Method
Musical Concept
Beat-Duration-Rhythm
Expressive Elements
Form
Meter
Pitch-Melody-Harmony
Timbre
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Anacrusis
Dotted Quarter Note with Eighth Note
Fast and Slow
Four Sixteenth Notes
Half Note and Rest
Long and Short
Quarter Note, Eighth Notes, Quarter Rest
Rhythmic Ostinato: Eighth Note and Sixteenth Note Patterns
Rhythmic Ostinato: Quarter Note, Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rest
Sixteenth-Eighth-Sixteenth
Sound and Silence
Steady Beat and No Beat
Syncopation (Eighth, Quarter, Eighth)
Tie
Triplets
Two Sixteenths and One Eighth (and vice versa)
Understanding Beat and Rhythm
Whole Note and Rest
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Articulation: Accents
Articulation: Smooth or Separated
Articulation: Staccato, Legato, Slur
Dynamic: Terms (pp, mp, p, mf, f, ff)
Dynamics: Changes
Dynamics: Crescendo and Decrescendo
Dynamics: Loud or Soft
Dynamics: Piano and Forte
Musical Emotion and Feelings
Tempo Marking: Fermata
Tempo Markings: Adagio, Andante, Vivace
Tempo Markings: Largo, Moderato, Allegro, Presto
Tempo Markings: Ritardando, Accelerando
Tempo: Changes
Tempo: Fast or Slow
Tension and Release
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AA, AB, ABA, AABA
Bridge and Interlude
Call and Response
Echo
Introduction and Coda
Motif
Movements
Patterns
Phrases: Long and Short
Repeats: 1st and 2nd Endings
Repeats: D.S. and D.C. (Fine and Coda)
Repeats: Signs
Repetition
Rondo (ABACADA)
Rounds and Canons
Same and Different
Suite
Theme and Variations
Verse and Chorus
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Barlines, Measures, and Double Barlines
Complex Meters (5/4, 7/8)
Compound Groupings
Compound Meters
Cut Time
Mixed Meters
Simple Duple & Quadruple Groupings (2, 4)
Simple Triple Groupings (3)
Strong or Weak Beat
Time Signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4)
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Accidentals (sharp, flat, natural)
Bass Clef (Letter names on staff)
Chords: I and V
Chords: I, IV, V
Intervals
Ledger Lines
Low - Middle - High
Low or High
Major vs Minor
Melodic Contour and Direction
Repeated Notes, Steps, Skips, Leaps
Solfege: Diatonic Scale (do - do)
Solfege: Major Pentatonic (do, re, mi, sol, la)
Solfege: Minor Pentatonic
Solfege: Octaves (sol, la, do)
Solfege: Simple Patterns (sol-mi, sol-mi-la)
Staff Lines and Spaces
Treble Clef (letter names on staff)
Triads
Two-part Harmony
Whisper, Speak, Sing, Call, Inner Voice
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Barred Percussion
Body Percussion (stomp, pat, clap, snap, etc.)
Ensembles (Concert Band, Marching Band, Small Ensembles)
Found Sounds and Homemade Instruments
Head Voice and Chest Voice
Musical Styles
Non-pitched percussion
Orchestral Instruments and Families
Pitched Percussion Instruments
SAB/SSA
Same or Different
Soprano and Alto Voice
Speaking Voice or Singing Voice
Tenor and Bass Voice
Texture: Monophonic, Polyphonic, Homophonic
Tone Color/Timbre
World Instruments
NCAS Standard
Anchor Standard 1
Anchor Standard 2
Anchor Standard 3
Anchor Standard 4
Anchor Standard 5
Anchor Standard 6
Anchor Standard 7
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Anchor Standard 9
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MU:Cr1.1.1
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MU:Cr1.1.4
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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
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Relationship Skills
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 1
1. High Tone on Drum; Rattle
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 2
2. Low Tone on Drum; Bell
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 3
3. Question and Answer with Echo
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 4
4. Double Bell (Gankogui)
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 5
5. Rhythm Complements
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 6
6. Rhythm Complements Breakout Groups
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 7
7. Performance
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 8
8. Playing Drum Solos
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 9
9. Call and Response
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 10
10. Performance
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 11
11. Shekere
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 12
12. The Parkway 4-Beat
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 13
13. Ensemble 3 - Highlife; Frame Drum
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 14
14. Highlife; Talking Drums
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 15
15. Gankogui; 'Banuwa'
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 16
16. Performance
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World Music Drumming: Lesson 18
17. Performance
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Guitar Class Method: Lesson 1
Guitar Class Method - Unit 1
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