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Musicians are great. They practice long hours to get good at their craft, often work well in groups, and are generally fun folks to be around. If you thought you were stir crazy, these folks might have you topped. Luckily, creative types turn boredom into excellence.
1. Teacher in Corona-Lockdown
"Gonna spend the next few days figuring out how to instruct 140 students who thinks a browser is the bad guy in Super Smash Bros." This one gets pretty real, but luckily Devin Siebold delivers it well. If you need some perspective in your life, but not the dark, doomy-gloomy kind, Devin has been putting out regular videos about the struggles of distance learning.
2. Puppets Play the Cello
Any educator stuck at home with only 10-30% of their "standard classroom resources" available can totally understand where Katie is coming from in this video. Can you name all the tunes?
3. Charles Cornell Does It Again
Collaborative pianists, accompanists, pianists... you've NeVeR had to change a key for someone on the fly, right? Right? Yeah. Like the time a high school choir came in a half step higher than I expected. Luckily, I had 8 bars of drum accompaniment to prep... unluckily the song should have modulated to D major towards the end. D# major isn't my favorite key. Charles Cornell does it better.
4. Brits Clear the Streets With Soprano Recorders
I know the recorder is a touchy subject with some of you - it's either totally useless or a beautiful, historical instrument. For me, my 3rd graders aren't consort-level (yet), but most of them have super treble clef reading skills. And I think the Brits are funny. (Link to original channel.)
5. Marsh Family Spoofs Les Mis
Some more really funny UK folks (courtesy of The Guardian who put the Facebook video on YouTube). Who doesn't love a good Les Miserables parody? Do you wonder if your students are saying some of these same things? (BBC article with the family.)
BONUS. Daniel Matarazzo Parodies Mary Poppins
If you don't know Daniel Matarazzo (@dannymatz90 on Twitter), this is the guy who wrote the funny parody of our favorite "Super" song from Mary Poppins. Watch it again if you've already watched it!
Lift your spirits when you can. Follow as many self care, hobby based, fun type Instagram hashtags as possible and get off of the other social medias for a bit. They're getting a little extra toxic. Happy Wednesday.
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