Amy M. Burns

Elementary Music Technology and Integration

Amy M. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School (FH) (https://www.fhcds.org/). She also teaches grade 5 instrument class, directs the FH Philharmonic, is the Performing Arts Department Manager, and teaches privately in the after-school conservatory after being the director for over 20 years. She has authored four books and numerous articles on how to integrate tech into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in TX, IN, St. Maarten, and AU. She is the recipient of the 2005 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Teacher of the Year, the 2016 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Master Music Teacher, the 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards. Her most recent publication, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches (2020), published by Oxford University Press (OUP) is available from OUP and Amazon. Burns is also the Community Coordinator for Midnight Music (MMC) at https://midnightmusic.com/, the General Music Chair for NJMEA Board of Directors, and the Elementary Music Consultant for MusicFirst (https://www.musicfirst.com/), a company built by music educators for music educators, dedicated to helping music teachers and their students make the most of technology in the classroom.

Rhythm Play-Along: Happy Birthday!

May 08, 2022  /  Amy M. Burns

New Rhythm Play-Along

New Rhythm Play-Along

This video is for birthday celebrations if you can celebrate them in your music classroom. This video will cover all of your students' birthdays throughout the school year. Like my videos? Please consider buying me a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elmusedtech

Musical Concepts

The musical concepts covered are 3-meter, 4-meter, accents, quarter, half, dotted half, whole, and eighth notes, along with triplets. The triplets are approached by the conductor (a birthday hat) pointing to the macrobeat. For performing the triplets, I suggest using the rhythm counting system that you have used with your students. I suggest the word “Straw-ber-ry” or it could be “1-trip-let 2-trip-let”, etc.

Songs

The songs included are:

  • Hill, M. & Hill, P. (disputed). (1893). Happy Birthday to You.[Recorded by iMovie].

  • Lopez, G. & Sylvia, M. (1957). Happy, Happy Birthday Baby. [Recorded by The Tune Weavers]. B-Side of Ol' Man Rover, Casa Grand Label, 1957. Wonder, S. (1981).

  • Happy Birthday. Hotter Than July, Motown Label, 1980.

  • Bell, R.N., Brown, G.M., Deodato, E., Mickens, R.S., Smith, C.C., Taylor, J. T., Thomas, D.R., & Toons, E.E. (1980). [Recorded by Kool & the Gang]. Celebrate! De-Lite Label, 1980.

Please feel free to enjoy this rhythm play-along throughout the school year to celebrate students’ birthdays as they pop up. Please also be cognizant to those who do not celebrate birthdays. Then, I would advise to not use this play-along since it focuses on birthdays.


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