Lisa LuminaMar 7, 20233 minMusic Mapping Crash CourseA good map makes exploring more fun, you can strike out confident that you'll be able to find your way back. In dance, mapping the music...
Lisa LuminaFeb 23, 20232 minLevel One: Undulations Unit, Class 5Articles For the last class of each unit, we cover a different music genre. Today, it's a two-for! Egyptian Shaabi and Marhagan. Shaabi...
Lisa LuminaFeb 23, 20232 minLevel One: Infinities Unit, Class 5Articles The topic for this unit’s Music genre was going to be folkloric songs, but that is such a broad topic that I think we are better...
Lisa LuminaFeb 22, 20232 minLevel One: Figure 8 Unit, Class 5Articles Although both "Arabic Classics" and "raqs sharki entrance numbers" use the sound of an orchestra, and many of the classics can...
Lisa LuminaFeb 22, 20232 minLevel One: Circle Unit, Class 5Articles When I first started, the line between pop music and shaabi music was more clear. Today, many shaabi artists are very popular....
Lisa LuminaJan 16, 20233 minEvolution in DanceWe need to talk about "evolution" Did you know that the line up drawing of increasingly more upright apes is called the "march of...
Lisa LuminaJan 16, 20233 minL2 music mapping and song structuresWhen working on mapping out a song's verses/section, what I like to call paragraphs, there are some common pattens they can take. You can...
Lisa LuminaJan 16, 20232 minL2: Phrasing and Transition CuesA musical phrase is a bit like a sentence in a conversation. You will notice there are some places that you naturally try to fit in a...
Lisa LuminaJan 15, 20233 minL2: Call & ResponseI like to start teaching phrasing with call and response because I think the change between the call and the response helps to draw...