For Teachers
Fun play-along videos for classroom use!
-Use with full ensembles in online, hybrid, and in-person classroom settings
-For beginner and intermediate band students
-Starts at the beginner level and increases in difficulty
-Self-assessment rubric included in each video
-Classroom videos rotate through 9 activities to focus on different aspects of music learning:
1. Get Ready: Warmups
- Long tones, scales, arpeggios, articulation, etc.
2. Inside Info: Music theory and fundamentals
-Time signatures, key signatures, scale degrees, intervals, chords, form, harmony, etc.
3. Sync Up: Rhythm training
-Listening, reading rhythms, counting, clapping
4. Catch The Groove: Rhythm training
-Listening, echoing, reading rhythms
5. Play By Ear: Aural skills
-Pitch discrimination, listening and echoing
6. Mix It Up: Sight-reading
-Extra challenge: sing the melody after playing it on an instrument
7. Make A Beat: Rhythm improvisation
-Echo a rhythmic phrase, then play something different
8. All Together Now: Ensemble playing
-Listen and play different parts within duets, trios, and quartets
9. Bonus Level: Sight-reading
-Combines material from previous videos
10. Recap: Vocabulary review
-Multiple-choice "quiz" review
-One Recap video after every 82 Dynabuddy classroom videos
Teachers can use Dynabuddy videos to support any musical activity they have planned. Think of each cycle through these activities as a unit of study that takes about 4-6 weeks to complete. Every 82 classroom videos is about a year's worth of instruction, ending with a Recap video for review. 82 classroom videos are currently available. More will be released soon - stay tuned!
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Video 73C: Get Ready (Classroom)
Warm-up using:
-Concert C minor scale & arpeggio
-Eighth notes & rests, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes & rests
-Breath marks
-"C" time signature -
Video 74C: Inside Info (Classroom)
Music theory & fundamentals: Dotted quarter notes
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Video 75C: Sync Up (Classroom)
Count and clap rhythms using:
-Eighth notes & rests, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes
-4/4 time signature -
Video 76C: Catch The Groove (Classroom)
Echo rhythms using:
-Concert F only
-Eighth notes, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes
-3/4 time signature -
Video 77C: Play By Ear (Classroom)
Echo melodic patterns using:
-Concert E-flat, F, & G
-Eighth notes, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes
-3/4 time signature -
Video 78C: Mix It Up (Classroom)
Sight-read using:
-Concert D minor key signature
-Eighth notes, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes & rests, whole notes & rests, sixteenth notes (snare drum only)
-Crescendo & decrescendo
-Dynamics: p, mp, mf, & f
-Ritardando
-Fermata
-Repeat signs
-Slurs
-4/4 time signature... -
Video 79C: Make A Beat (Classroom)
Echo and improvise rhythms using:
-Concert G only
-Eighth notes & rests, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes & rests, half notes & rests, dotted half notes & rests
-3/4 time signature -
Video 80C: All Together Now (Classroom)
Ensemble playing using:
-Duet
-Concert F major key signature
-Eighth notes & rests, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes
-Ritardando
-Fermata
-Repeat signs
-1st & 2nd endings
-Slurs
-Breath marks
-Dynamics: p, mp, mf, & f
-Crescendo, decrescendo
-2/4 time signature -
Video 81C: Bonus Level (Classroom)
Sight-read using:
-Concert E-flat major key signature
-Eighth notes, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, sixteenth notes (snare drum only)
-D.C. al Fine
-Crescendo & decrescendo
-Dynamics: p, mp, mf, f
-Slurs
-Ties
-Buzz strokes (snare drum only)
-3/4 time... -
Video 82C: Recap (Classroom)
Vocabulary review: 37 multiple choice questions covering terms, symbols, and concepts from videos 1-99
