<h3>Maestro the Dog's Sleepy Bedtime Story</h3>You can download this story to read to the children for a gentle end to the day. The story particularly lends itself to making sounds using body sounds, found sounds or musical instruments. It could also be used as the basis for a school assembly.

This unit covers using music technology and keyboards in relation to more Maestro the Music Dog stories <h3>Elements</h3> <ul class="simple elements"> <li>Duration: Long or short notes, RHYTHM.</li> <li>Dynamics: Louder or quieter sounds.</li> <li>Tempo: Fast or slow speed of the PULSE, or BEAT</li> <li>Pitch: High pitched and low pitched sounds.</li> <li>Pentatonic: A five note scale, or set of notes in order, such as C, D, E, G and A. The black keys of a piano or keyboard make a natural pentatonic scale - notice that each black key has at least one white key between it and the next one, which gives a distinctive &#039;pentatonic&#039; sound.</li> <li>Silence: The quiet spaces between musical sounds.</li> <li>Sing-song voice: Two sung pitches, higher then lower like G - E, as if calling a name in the playground</li> </ul> <h3>Resources</h3> <ul class="resources"> <li>Keyboards or a piano, an iPad or computer</li> </ul>

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