Matthew - Original Version of Picnic with Friends.

Here's Matthew with the original version of Picnic With Friends. He played it very confidently now, after he has worked on changing it to minor. Well done Matthew!

Matthew, you are a star!

Matthew loves exploring different sound on the keyboard. He just learnt the "minor" (sad) sound and he has decided to make the song "Picnic with friends" (From Piano Adventure Book B) into a sad song. Here are the words he wrote:

I'm sad the sky is painted black, black, black.

(Originally the color was blue and he changed all the "glad" to "sad")

I'm sad the earth is painted grey, grey, grey.

(Originally the color was green)

I'm sad there such a lot of cigarette!

(Originally it was "I'm glad there's such a lot of nice fresh air")

I'm sad I'm sandwiched in between.

Maybe some anti-smoking campaigner might be interested in his variation of the song!

The 1st video is Matthew playing the song.

The 2nd video is Matthew singing to his recording. (We recorded what he played earlier on his keyboard).

Jadyn , You Are A Star!

Jadyn has not been well but she did lots of practice and I'm proud to present her playing "Bingo" and "Sunlight through the Breeze".

I like the way she sings the melody (even though this song has no words) when she plays 'Sunlight Through The Breeze". That's really great because she is involving more of her senses as she plays (her ears, eyes, hands, voice. . .etc).

And you mustn't miss the 3rd footage where she taught her pet Super star how to play the lullaby she composed : )

Bea, You are a star!

Here are 2 clips from Bea. The first is Casey Jones where she has to swing the 8th notes (That means to make the 1st 8th note longer and the 2nd 8th note shorter). The second clip is "Take Me To The Ball Game" from Marry Poppins. Enjoy the footage!