Week 3: Interesting find(s) #2
While looking through the TED archives I found these two videos.
In this little video Bobby McFerrin has the whole audience singing with very little guidance. This would be a fun lesson to do with the kids. I would imagine the kids would love to be the one who gets to “pretend” to be Bobby and hop around while the classmates follow vocally. This could allow for improv in the room.
The website description:
In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
This video is more or the technical side of what happens in the brain during music improvisation.
The website description:
Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
I have used this video in the past to introduce my young students to improve. Our main stars in this clip are the very lovable Muppets. The Muppets provide much entertainment in my classroom.
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