Extraordinary Times Videos

Joni Mitchell’s ‘From Both Sides Now’ from 1966 takes us on a rollercoaster with our thoughts, as well as the shape of the melody itself. We’ve all been through plenty of sunny and cloudy days already this year. From the sublime to the ridiculous and all the colours in between!

At Plymouth Music Zone we embrace all that life brings our way and use the power of music to help us explore it further. With the help of a rainbow-coloured umbrella, a garden hose (rain!!!) and a piano, here’s Creativity & Learning Director / Music Leader, Anna Batson with her version of the song.

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This is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme: a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

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Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk

Here as part of our series exploring samba rhythms we're looking at surdo.

Surdo Terceira which is quite a simple pattern, which goes like this:
1 e & a 2 e & a
Mute Open Open
1 e & a 2 e & a
Mute Open Open Open

After watching this you may like to record and submit video or audio of you playing it, to be part of our collaborative samba project - details of how to do so are here - https://youtu.be/LHKyTWoizM0

We're working at 80bpm (beats per minute). If submitting your recording please send a minute or so of yourself playing the part - this can feel like a long time!

For more videos from Baton Beats please follow our YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

Next up in our series of looking at samba rhythms. Rob Tilsley at Plymouth Music Zone looks at surdo.

Surdo primeira is a brilliantly simple pattern. We hope after watching this that you'll feel confident to record and submit video or audio of you playing the rhythm.

Details of how to do so are here - https://youtu.be/LHKyTWoizM0

Surdo primera goes like this:
1 2 1 2
Mute Open Mute Open

We're working at 80bpm (beats per minute) and please send a minute or so of yourself playing the part - this can feel like a long time.

For more videos from Baton Beats please follow our YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

Mind the gap!!!! ….actually, just listen out for it and get creative with your own beeps and crashes…

We want you to plug the gap with your own sound-making objects in this humorous rendition of ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ by Anna Batson (Creativity & Learning Director / Music Leader).

"Da Doo Ron Ron" was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. It first became a popular top five hit single for the American girl group The Crystals in 1963.

There have been many cover versions of the song since then. We don’t think there’s been one quite like this! Just in case you’re wondering, the little smiley instrument with a face in the video (bottom right screen) is a Japanese electronic instrument called an ‘Otamatone’.

If you'd like to send us pictures or videos of your own instruments then you put them on our FB post here: https://www.facebook.com/202538829782509/videos/631892504115684

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This is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme: a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk

As part of our Extraordinary Times programme, this weekend, let's play 'I Spy'. Can you see any of these things in the street? Tree, people, car, bus, dog. Good luck!

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This is part of a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial

This musical walking video is the work of PMZ participant Judy Morse, filming a walk at Mountbatten during lockdown. The music was recorded in one of the "In the Zone" bereavement support sessions at St Luke's Hospice Plymouth (Turnchapel).

The participants all contributed a note each to the shape of the melody (using a glockenspiel). This formed the main journey the piano took and the group chose instruments to improvise around the growing ideas.

This instrumental became an introduction to another piece we have shared previously, “Jack’s Waltz” on PMZ’s soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/plymouth-music-zone/jacks-waltz-st-lukes-hospice-plymouth

Once again we are reflecting on times we have been alone as well as those when we were together.

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This is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme: a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

Yesterday we shared a poem by Kitty O’Meara in which she mentioned that ‘some met their shadows’…a beautiful, yet haunting use of these words.
https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/posts/3040552995981064

This is a playful lockdown walking video from music leader with Jodie Saunders who takes us on a mysterious, long-legged walk between the trees in Devonport Park. The music was created at home by Anna Batson, Plymouth Music Zone's Creativity & Learning Director/Music Leader.

As part of our continuing lockdown ‘Extraordinary Times’ programme we are keen to think creatively about our surroundings as well as music and sound. We have enjoyed finding different ways of exploring places even if we can’t actually be there in person, and we hope you do too!

For many people, we know that it’s still not possible to get out and about, so we will keep finding ways to go on little journeys together differently.

Many thanks to Jodie for taking us all on a walk with her!

Can you have a guess at some of the instruments you can hear in the little soundtrack we created to go with this shadow walk? Let us know your answers on our Facebook post here https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/posts/3043160792386951

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This is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme: a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/