MIA

It has been rather nice to not be so focused on blogging, but I have missed it. Thinking of ideas for the final project busted my chops. After watching Akeelah and the Bee and hearing one of the greatest songs ever I was sold on using it for the project. Then, the copyright thingy. OMG. I was like totally upset. LOL. So, there went that effort. So "Under Pressure" I found my way and sought out my iTunes ol' skool rap collection and laid down a track with my kids. My daughter has had this "American Idol" bug and has been doing "studio" work for a while. Staying out all time of the night. Keeping composition books of her writing. I didn't really get it until we embarked on this project. I've been in the zone for days now trying to "spit" out a rhyme. I even sought a resource called Flocabulary from flocabulary.com. It is has resources for writing raps for kids and with kids in the classroom. I tried to do a slant rhyme, instead of matchy, matchy lyrics (cat, rat, mat, flat)...you do...words that pull off the sound of "at"(still a novice so I have no example to share).

I will admit this was fun. The kids are singing there heart out and we hope to add Jordyn's trumpet piece, Myles' recorder part, and create a people version video later. It was loads of fun! So even though I've been MIA, I'm really not been that far away, you can catch me on skype and ichat, I seem to not be able to leave my Mac, as a matter of fact.....I think, but don't quote me that this was a slant rhyme.

Perfect practice makes perfect with just about anything.