Small (and big) children draw guitars and other musical impressions

Willie · March 2021

Mattis, 6

Very old and somewhat worn but nevertheless very beautiful french manouche guitar (at last!).

White zig-zag-ukulele.

littlemark · March 2021

Willie

Mar 30, 2021

@littlemark
English is not my native language, I'm afraid I didn't understand your post at all.
What I understood is, that you were talkIng about a music lesson. And that you were dealing with flats and used the Simpsons to demonstrate some subject. But what does it mean that "zigzag " is a pattern for flattening notes? Has the position of the Simpsons or of the hair something to do with different pitches? Why is it important that "diffident" is word of the day?
I'm somewhat irritated, need help ... 😕

You pretty much got it. The flat key signatures look like Homer's hair.

The rest is just me having fun with my students.

I think I was just pointing out that I do a word of the day. Today's is foist. I love doing cross curricular stuff. I explain the word and the etimology. I make my students draw things as well. Sooooo many kids have said they learn more about history in music class that they do in history class.

littlemark · March 2021

I really like the Zig Zag uke! Reminds me of cubism.

Willie · March 2021

@littlemark

Thank's for the explanation! I was desparately searching for the connection between flattening notes and your word of the day ...

Cross curricular stuff is great; sometimes I use keywords appearing in songs for short historical digressions (for example in the round "White sand and grey sand").