Last week we finished doing our Body Percussion. For those of you that don’t know what Body Percussion is, it is a form of music that’s only instrument is your own body. There are a lot of ways to make sound with your body (excluding our voice) including patting legs and/or torso, clapping, stomping, clicking your fingers and more. But last week, since we were finishing that subject that week, we did a quiz on it. The quiz was all about learning the musical notes like minims, crotchets, quavers, semiquavers, and rests.
There wasn’t all that much about body percussion in general, but we already knew a lot about that and not too much about the music notes. This was also important due to the fact that we were doing a task on it. This task was that we had to choose from a collection of music notes in a template on Google Drawings, and put them into a place. We didn’t get to choose which notes individually, though. The music notes were each in bars that we could choose from.
We had to put twelve of them into place and then write under them what type of body percussion that note would be. Each note had its own body percussion. For example, if there was a 1-beat note, I could write under it click, stomp, clap, or any other sound you could make with your body excluding your voice. This quiz was only for the people that had finished that task though, so for the people that did (including me) it was sort of a reward for finishing our task. Here is a picture of the completed task that I had to do to be able to do the quiz.
Have you ever played or done a task on any of the types of music?