Here Comes the Sun
Learn the song
Vocal warm-ups and learn the song!
We have the 1969 hit ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by George Harrison. Join Stephanie and Sean Miller as they take you through the song with its catchy lyrics and some irregular time signatures – this one’s for all you Beatles fans!
Extra fun fact is that Sean is a keen horticulturalist – check out his sunflower on the piano!
Composition
Tom Lawrence, composer and pecussion teacher is here with ideas for you on how to compose your own melodies.
The new composition contest to create music for the Music Service Graphics is underway and you can get your music heard by uploading on our ‘My Music‘ page of the website! Your composition can be in any format using any instruments and any style: a recording, a notated piece, an electronic piece, a computer composition, a picture & more.
Performance Tips
Stephanie Miller introduces today’s episode working on ‘Here Comes the Sun’.
With a little thanks to Eric Clapton and the sun . . . George Harrison’s inspiration for this great song!
Stephanie gets us going with the ‘tricky’ bits where the rhythm changes – see if you can do your movements in time!
Simplicity is key to this song with its small range of notes and cleverly chosen words that fit so naturally – and talking of keys, listen out for why we are learning this song in a different key to the one that George Harrison used.
Trumpet, Flugel Horn and Cornet
Instruments of the week – Trumpet, Flugel Horn and Cornet
Suzanne Crowther and Richard Shaw introduce this episode.
Starting with the trumpet Suzanne shows how the sound is made and how the air speeds, lip shapes and using the valves create the different pitches.
We hear about the history of the trumpet and its likely origins before learning how it is used is so many musical settings: orchestras, windbands, military bands, film music, musical theatre, jazz ensembles, big bands & pop bands!
