Anti-Vietnam Song ⎢ Music Through Time

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we started a new topic about Woodstock which was similar was connected to the previous topic we did, Beatlemania. Woodstock is a musical festival held in America, the festival went on for 3 days, many people attended this event. The people that attended the event were against the war. Our blogging task for this unit was to do a blog on one of the songs that went against the Vietnam War. 

I chose to do the song 'Vietnam' by Jimmy Cliff. 

Vietnam

Hey, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam
And this is what he had to say
“Tell all my friends that I’ll be coming home soon
My time’ll be up some time in June
Don’t forget”, he said, “To tell my sweet Mary
Her golden lips are sweet as cherry”

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

It was just the next day, his mother got a telegram
It was addressed from Vietnam
Now Mistress Brown, she lives in the USA
And this is what she wrote and said
“Don’t be alarmed”, she told me the telegram said
“But Mistress Brown your son is dead.”

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, hey, Vietnam
Somebody please stop that war now

Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, oh Vietnam
Vietnam, oh Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Somebody please stop it

Vietnam, Vietnam, oh Vietnam
Vietnam oh oh, oh oh Vietnam
Hey Vietnam, aha Vietnam, oh oh, yeah
I wanna say now somebody stop that war

The lyrics of the song portrays a soldier writing a diary to his friends and family about his return home. But instead, his family were notified about his son's death. Though the song wasn't as popular as some, it was considered the most effective of the anti-Vietnam songs. 

Beatlemania ｜ Music Through Time

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we started a new topic. For this topic, we are learning about Beatlemania, what it is and how it impacted the music industry to what it is today. Our first task was to write about one of their songs. I have chosen to write about their song 'Yesterday', written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. 

Yesterday

The song yesterday was a song from the Beatles album called 'Help!'. The song was written by two members of the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney and was produced by George Martin. The song is about a heartbreak between two lovers. 

Lyrics:

Yesterday 

All my troubles seemed so far away 

Now it looks as though they're here to stay 

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be 

There's a shadow hanging over me 

Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go 

I don't know, she wouldn't say 

I said something wrong 

Now I long for yesterday

Yesterday 

Love was such an easy game to play 

Now I need a place to hideaway 

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go 

I don't know, she wouldn't say 

I said something wrong 

Now I long for yesterday

Yesterday 

Love was such an easy game to play 

Now I need a place to hideaway 

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Discussion 

The lyrics are saying how their relationship was yesterday compared to today. These lyrics represent how something that you have said could have made your lover leave you. 

During the 1940s music genres such as Jazz were very popular and were always listened too. This is because of the war, it was very gloomy around this time as the world had just concluded yet another war. So when music such as the Beatles came it was very surprising for some people. 

Performance Evaluation : Music

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, this Friday is our final day of music classes, so this means that we get to perform the pieces that we are learning in our previous classes. After those performances, we had to do a blog evaluation on how we felt with learning music this year and how we felt with our performances. 

① : What have you enjoyed in music this year?

I have enjoyed learning new instruments and I also liked performing.

② : What have you found challenging about music this year?

I found it hard to learn a piece because of the little amount of time we had. 

③ : What did you perform for your final assessment? Who did you perform with? Why did you choose that piece?

I performed a piano piece called Clair De Lune by myself and I chose that piece because it was a song that I have been trying to learn for a few weeks. 

④ : How did you find performing?

I think it was quite fun and it was very enjoyable. 

⑤ : Were you happy with your performance?

Yes, I was happy with my performance, even though I misplaced some notes I think I did satisfactorily. 

⑥ : Any other comments about music 2020?

Music 2020 was entertaining, and I got to learn a lot of useful information, but it was sad that we didn't get more time to polish performance pieces. 

Instrument Evaluation

1. What have you studied in Music this term?
I have studied piano, guitar and ukulele. For the piano, we learned some beginner and advanced songs, which I enjoyed a lot. In guitar, we also had to learn a song and it was very enjoyable for me. For ukulele, we studied an easy song that I liked very much.

2. Which instrument have you enjoyed and why?
I enjoyed learning all of the instruments, but the instrument I liked learning the ost would be the piano. Because I have learned piano before and it was easy for me to learn the chords and how both hand flow together.

3. Which instrument did you find the most challenging and why?
I found the guitar the hardest because my hands couldn't reach the corrects chords properly.

4. Which instrument are you going to focus on for the rest of the term and why? What would you like to achieve?
I am going to do the piano for the rest of the term because I enjoy playing the piano. I would like to finish learning a classical piece.

Ukulele Reflections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we have completed learning a song for the ukulele and after that, we then are starting to learn the guitar. But before that, we had to answer some questions about the ukulele and our experience with it.

1. Describe your study of ukulele, have you enjoyed it? Found it hard/easy?

It was very fun to learn about the ukulele, especially because I knew how to play some chords on it. I found it easy to learn because I already knew how to play the ukulele before.

2. Where is the ukulele from? Where was It formed? by who?

The ukulele is from Hawaii, but it first originated in Europe and then it was introduced to Hawaii. It was believed that Manuel Nunes was one of the creators of the Hawaiin ukulele.

3. Add a labelled picture of the ukulele:

4. Which song have you been learning?

Bruno Mars - Just the Way you are

The Piano

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! For music, we are nearing the end to our piano/keyboard course, so we will be having an assessment. But before we need to answer some questions about the piano.

1: Where was the Piano invented and by who?
The piano was invented in Italy and by Bartolomeo Cristofori.

2: What did the first Piano look like?


3: What is the difference between a Piano and Keyboard?
The piano is an acoustic instrument and the keyboard is a digital instrument that needs energy.

4: What have you enjoyed about learning the piano/keyboard? What have you found challenging?
Learning new music was a very fun thing to do. I found it challenging to sync my right hand with my left hand.

Week 3 Relfections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we did our reflections for week 3. This I decided to do a post about when I felt a sense of accomplishment.

• I finished all my chores at home without needing my sister's or parents to help because I was injured. 
• I finished learning a quarter of a piece we were learning for music. 

Week 2 Reflections

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! It is Friday so it is the day for reflections. For this week I chose to write a post about my accomplishments this week.

"This week I felt a sense of accomplishment when I:"

• I finished a very challenging Essay for hurumanu 2 (Math and Social Studies) and we only had 1 - 2 weeks to finish it. 
• I finished learning a piano piece for music that was very challenging for me to learn. 
• I finished all my work for health and I felt very proud.

Music Term 3!

1. Why did you choose music?

I chose it because I wanted to learn more about instruments and the history of music. 

2. What would you like to learn in music?

I would like to learn more about the piano and play a little bit of the guitar. 

3. Do you play an instrument? For how long? What can you play? 

I play the piano and I have been practising for a year, I can play beginner songs with two hands. 

4. Who is your favourite singer/band, why?

Ed Sheeran, because he has an amazing voice and many people can relate to his songs. 

5. Name 5 of your favourite songs:

- Perfect

- Heather

- Tarot Cards

- It's you

- Pinwheel. 

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 4 • Day 2 - Activity 2

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! Today I will be doing another post for the Summer Learning Journey. If you did not know the Summer Learning Journey is a holiday programme. The main reason why it started is to prevent the Summer Slump. The Summer Slump happens when you fall behind in your learning. In my opinion, SLJ is a really great programme to do so that you can keep up with your work.

Activity 2: K-POP HEROES

BTS or Bangtan Boys is a seven-member boy band from South Korea. They have topped the music charts in the United States of America and around the world.

They are a K-pop group (Korean pop) and most of their songs are sung in Korean.

BTS make great music videos and they have amazing choreography (dance routines).

For this activity, we had to watch a video and then tell what our opinion is about BTS.

BTS By Michael Kovac/Getty Images licensed under cc by-sa 2.0