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L104 Adding Your Own Playing · Fri 2027-03-05 · The Producer's Chair 100%
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GREET
Greeting at the door
Entra, sientate, empieza

Come in, sit, startEntra, sientate, empieza

Your Do Now is on the board and on today's sheet. Start it as you sit down.Tu 'Ahora' esta en la pizarra y en la hoja de hoy. Empiezalo al sentarte.

Recorder dayDia de flauta

Take your own numbered recorder bag and cleaning stick from the bin by the door. The Equipment Manager is at the bin.Toma tu bolsa numerada de flauta y tu varilla de limpieza del cajon junto a la puerta. El Encargado de Equipo esta en el cajon.

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DO NOW
Write one line
Escribe una linea

Write one line: what does a human player do that a computer does not?

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WARM-UP
Scholar-led
Calentamiento, dirigido por un estudiante
Stand tall, feet flat, shoulders down. Recorder Book, p. 1.
Left hand on top, cover the whole hole, soft slow air, tongue each note. Recorder Book, p. 4.
The solfege hand signs (Curwen, 1870s).

Scholar-led warm-up

Led by today's Warm-Up Leader. I do not run this block.Lo dirige el Líder de Calentamiento de hoy. Yo no dirijo este bloque.

  1. Breath in 4, out 8, twice
  2. Body and hands ready: left hand on top
  3. Sing today's notes on solfege with hand signs, then play them
  4. Count-in and a four-beat entrance together
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TARGET
What we can do today
Lo que podemos hacer hoy

I canYo puedo

I can record a live performance of my own melody by playing it into my track and comparing it with the programd version.

I know I have got it whenSe que lo logre cuando

  • I recorded a live take of my melody
  • My live take is in time with the track
  • I compared the live and programd versions

Read aloud by today's Target Reader.Lo lee en voz alta el Lector de la Meta de hoy.

El espanol del texto propio de esta lección llega con su unidad; la rutina de arriba esta traducida.

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MAKE
Hands on the track
Manos y voces en la musica

Adding Your Own Playing

  1. 4 minRehearse to the track
  2. 6 minRecord two takes
  3. 4 minCompare programd and played
  4. 1 minWhich belongs

Reading todayLectura de hoy

Your notated melody, performed live into the track

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TALK
You talk. I stay quiet.
Ustedes hablan. Yo me quedo callado.

You have your melody played and programd. Which one belongs in your track, and what is your musical reason?

Starter (asks the question)Builder (adds evidence)Challenger (offers another reading)Recorder (reports one sentence out)

Use these to startEmpieza con estás frases

  • I noticed ______ in the track, and I think it worked because ______.
  • I want to build on what ______ said. My evidence is at ______ seconds.
  • I hear it differently. What I heard was ______, because ______.

I stay silent for the first four minutes. Talk to each other, not to the front of the room.Me quedo callado los primeros cuatro minutos. Hablen entre ustedes, no hacia el frente.

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PROVE
Show what you can do
Demuestra lo que puedes hacer

Play the live take you recorded.

How you show itComo lo demuestras

Play or sing it for me. I mark the roster as you play.Tocalo o cantalo para mi. Marco la lista mientras tocas.

Write one line firstPrimero escribe una línea

One sentence on your Do Now line: use the word overdub and name the place in the track that proves it.Una oración en tu línea del 'Ahora': usa la palabra overdub y señala la prueba.

Before you finishAntes de terminar

Rate yourself against the success criteria, give one classmate a specific comment using a word from today's list, then fix one thing they named before you show me.

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PACK-DOWN
Instruments away
Guardar los instrumentos

Equipment Manager runs thisLo dirige el Encargado de Equipo

  1. Swab your recorder and wipe the mouthpieceSeca tu flauta con la varilla y limpia la boquilla
  2. Recorder into your numbered bag, bag into your numbered slotLa flauta en tu bolsa numerada, la bolsa en tu espacio numerado
  3. Keyboard off, cover on
  4. Save, close the lid, Chromebook back in its numbered slot in the cart

Two minutes. The bell should never catch us with instruments out.Dos minutos. El timbre nunca debe sorprendernos con los instrumentos afuera.

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