How to Play Your Bathroom
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Ingredients Flushing toilet Teeth brushing Spit sound Water tap Gargling Blow dryer Toilet paper rolling Toilet paper tearing
Score Review
Nose blowing
The teacher should distribute one copy of the score (refer to Appendix D7) to each student and review the piece during class time. Students should feel excited to go home and try performing and recording it. How to Play Your Bathroom does not give any pitch details. It gives rhythmic instructions, and is organized to begin getting students comfortable with reading a score.
Spraying the mirror Cleaning the mirror Running a bath Rubber duck squeak Fan Pouring water into a toilet bowl
Conclusion How to Play Your Bathroom is a humourous piece of music. It makes fun of music, in a sense, by squeezing sounds out of a mundane environment. Students should be encouraged to evolve their own graphic notation systems, to compose their own similar pieces, and share them with their peers. Some might ask: “Would you actually listen to somebody playing their bathroom and call it music?” I think that with imagination, the sounds found in a bathroom can become just as expressive as any traditional instrument.
Primary Units – Grades 1 to 3
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