I firmly believe that people want to hear you talk or get information, not hear generic background music.
I want to find out what this educational video we watched in music class in elementary school is. All I remember (my sister has filled somr of these details) is a guy who was making a cake for "Grandma PJ" and he says "Making a cake is a lot like making music!". The end result is the male narrator saying the cake looks like a pancake to him.
Anyone able to figure this one out? Thanks.
Hello I remember this game I played after some person came to our childhood home selling educational PC games. My mom bought them and there was this game where your at a rock concert and a bunch of stuff is broken. Three characters (I think they were yellow and blobby) ask for your help to fix the light show(optics), music, and amp equipment (electronics). The goal is to teach you about these subjects. I remember the electronics guy was tall and skinny, and music guy was shorter and round and the optics one was a girl and had a pony tail. This came out certainly before windows 7.
Hi, I am Interested in making some educational YouTube videos regarding symphonies and I may use clips some performances. Any idea where I can find some copyright free recording ? Either video or audio only .
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"Here's the Beat" was an Australian educational TV program for children that was first aired around February 1991 (originally ran from 1991-1995), but continued to air reruns on ABC for some time (into approx. the early-mid 2000s) before it was apparently pulled from TV permanently and thrown in the vault to never air again. The episodes do not exist online. There's no footage at all. There aren't any images. Mentions online of the show's existence outside of archive context are minimal to none. I have never seen anyone talk about it.
I remember catching this show in the afternoon as a kid after school sometimes, would've been somewhere from 2004 to 2006. Very short episodes in between after-school cartoons. Although I've seen brief synopses of the episodes, I really can't remember much. It was a long time ago. I did learn that the characters featured were some kids (two older kids/teenagers I think, and one around 8) named Mark, Philly, and Julie. Apparently largely took place indoors, likely in a garage.
Episodes would follow a formula of a basic setup and scenario (kid trying to learn the drums, kid trying to sell his bike, etc.) that would play into the point of the show, being to teach kids basic music theory, like beat, rhythm, and other things later on. I definitely remember a fragment of the ending theme- kids singing about "the beat", jovial clapping, perky glockenspiel notes. It definitely looked "1991", had that same dated "recorded on film" look that "Round the Twist" had. The credits were a continuous bar of text running across the screen at the bottom (like Rage I think? Might be misremembering), and it was all over pretty quickly.
Wikipedia confirms its existence on its list of programs aired by the ABC (with a red link, naturally). I've hunted around on archive.org on the ABC website and its old TV schedules, and I have found evidence of it airing around the time I remember it airing.
Australian libraries (or one library it seems) ostensibly has it on VHS according to WorldCat, but after looking at the site for said library, no such tape seems to exist there. There's only a [teacher's book](https://search.lib.uts.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005716429705671&context=L&vid=61UTS_INST:61UTS&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20
... keep reading on reddit ➡I am 20 years old and a rising junior music ed major, so it's fair to say I have little to no experience teaching elementary school aged children. I was very abruptly promoted to music specialist at a general day camp and was unable to plan sufficiently. I have very few resources: my ukulele, a notebook where i provide my own paper, a keyboard, and a speaker. A general day camp is not a place where children are interested in actually learning music, so I've mostly been having them do fun activities related to music.
I've been doing okay and getting better as time goes on, but I am having a hard time figuring out what to do for the 3-5th graders for a 45 minute period in the following weeks. So far, I had them split into groups, pick two words (a thing and a place) from bags, and write a "song" (poem) that includes these words, I would then bang out chords and have them come up with a melody. They really enjoyed this songwriting activity. I also had them create skits in which they would add one pop song to; they also enjoyed this. I am not sure what project I can do with them for the following weeks.
For the 1-3rd graders, I also would love to know of any activities I can do for their age. I've made the mistake of giving them projects and games that are just a little too complicated, and honestly, I don't know many music-related games for this age group.
Preschoolers are extra hard. I don't know many children's songs as my parents pretty much played me classic rock as a child. I don't know of many games other than freeze dance that preschoolers could understand. If there are any good preschool-appropriate songs or games for a group I would love to know!
I would love to hear some suggestions if you have any! I have been struggling a little bit.
I remember a game from the late 90s/early 2000s on a CD that I played as a kid. The game housed five (maybe more?) minigames that you could select. Each minigame had different art styles and objectives, and they didn't seem to be related to each other outside of being on the same disc. I'll try to describe what I remember about each game:
- Chicken customization factory - There is a room with a large machine to create a chicken(?). You can customize its color, clothing, and pattern. I'm unsure what the objective was.
- Pet shop - Each of the pets (creatures that don't resemble any real animal) were on a shelf on the wall of the pet store. A client would come in and describe what they want, such as eye size, color, hair type, glasses, etc. Given their needs, you would have to find the most appropriate pet on the wall to give to the customer.
- Moving circles/marbles to music - The user is able to bounce marbles(?) or circles around the screen to music. The background was usually a solid color or simple pattern. The user could also cycle through several pre-made marble patterns to start with.
- Making art with moving shapes - There are several pre-made artworks made entirely of shapes that the user can manipulate, such as spinning the shapes, bouncing, moving in and out of frame, etc. One of the artworks was a basketball hoop made with a rectangle and trapezoid.
- Musical Instruments - I'm not 100% sure if this last one was from this specific game or if I'm mistaking it from another. Regardless, I remember a set of instruments that the user can cycle through and make sounds with. I specifically remember a xylophone and an instrument made of strings/rubber bands that you can pluck to create different notes.
Thank you for your time and help. It is much appreciated :)
