I am sure most teachers can identify with that sentiment. However, I truly believe the biggest challenge is being away from my students physically. It has been a challenge to relearn how to deliver engaging and quality music lessons in a virtual format. If you’re interested in the beginning recorder method that accompanies these videos, please visit my TeachersPayTeachers store (linked below)! During this digital learning period of time, I will keep my store set on sale for the foreseeable future to help out teachers needing resources for virtual school!Īs with many schools across our nation and the globe right now, I am nearing the end of my third week of Digital Teaching and Learning. Without further delay and many more words, here are play-along videos for Recorders Rock. Save it to your selected file destinationĪs I am typing this, I think someday a tutorial video on how to make these might be useful! It’s harder to write out than it is to just show you!.Export as a video – under the File menu select Export then Create a Video.Click record and advance slides to highlight each note in time with the music. Record slideshow in the Slideshow menu at the top of PowerPoint.Import the audio from GarageBand on the first slide – the important part of adding audio to PowerPoint is to set the audio settings to “Play Across Slides” and “Start Automatically” and “Hide During Show” – these will all be at the top of PowerPoint in the “PLAYBACK” menu when the audio file is selected.Duplicate slides then move and recolor the box for each note in the song.Add a colored box set at 40% transparency to cover the first note.Create a slide with the notation as a image file.Here’s a simple step-by-step of how I created the videos below using PowerPoint… However, I used PowerPoint in a more creative way, using one slide per note in each song. PowerPoint – I am sure everyone is familiar with PowerPoint.I then exported the audio from GarageBand to be used in PowerPoint for the slides. I used SmartPercussion, loops, and Smart Instrument (Guitar, Strings, Piano, Keyboard, etc.) to arrange the accomapiments. I imported the melody from NoteFlight by adding the WAV file as the MIDI information for the melody line. I used GB to arrange the accompaniment to the recorder songs. ![]() GarageBand – A native MacOS and iOS app, GarageBand is a powerhouse for music creation and composition.I used NoteFlight for the notation for the videos as well as exporting the WAV file to use in GarageBand below for the melody. I’ve been a NoteFlight user for a better part of 10 years and the developers keep improving with increasing features and capabilities. The free version has more than enough capability for what I need it to do. ![]() ![]()
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