Y3 Music 4 Life Guitar

Ivy

1.        Hello and good morning, welcome to our guitar concert.

Theo W

2.        Over the last 10 weeks we have been learning about and how to play guitar with Robyn and Ollie from Music 4 Life.

Alistair

3.        The first thing we learnt was the parts of the guitar.

Harri

4.        This part here is the head

Sam

5.        This part is called the neck

Sophia

6.        Then we have the body,

Holly

7.        This part here is the bridge,

Max

8.        Then we have the nut,

Maisy

9.        The frets are the parts separated by the lines

Janani

10.  And finally the strings.

Halle

11.  We then learnt a sentence to help with our string names:

ALL

12.  (Everyone together) Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears

Ray

13.  We are going to play some of the songs we have been learning.

Jude

14.  Our first song is called Minor Swing, and in this song we learnt how to play open strings.

Noah

15.  "Minor Swing" is a gypsy jazz tune composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

Darcy

16.  The next song is called Flamenco Frenzy. In this song we practised holding down our first fret.

Evan

17.  Flamenco music is from Spain.

Harri

18.  The next song we are going to play is the James Bond theme. In this song we practised using different frets and strings.

Amelie

19.  This was first composed by Monty Norman and adapted by John Barry.

Kane

20.  The next song is We Will Rock You. This song uses the first chord we have learnt called E minor

Theo R

21.  We Will Rock You was composed by Brian May and performed by his band Queen

William

22.  We have loved learning about the guitar because we liked learning the tunes.

Lennie

23.  The next song we are playing is called Eddie's Blues. In this song we practised using rests to create different rhythms.

Lottie

24.  Blues is a type of music from the Deep South of the United States.

Denny

25.  Thank you for coming to our concert. We hope you enjoyed our performance.