Music

MUSIC   

In this lesson you learn how to download music on to your computer for the use of background music for videos you will be creating later in the class.

1.  Open YOUTUBE.com and select a song you would like to download. Copy the URL of the song as it is playing.

2.  Open a new tab or a new window in your Internet browser. Open the website Offliberty.com. Offliberty is one of many sites that can take a YouTube video and convert it into an MP3 or MP4.

3. When the site opens post the URL of your video into the download box. You will have two options for downloading. Click the top option to save just the sound (music) (MP3).  Once the download is complete you can find it in a couple places. The first place to look is along the bottom of the screen, the second is in the download folder.
You are successful when the download has the suffix .mp3.

4. For this project, create a folder and entitle it 'music'. Place 6 song downloads into the folder.

5. Open your Google Drive and drag the folder with the songs into it.

6. Open your Classroom.Google.com and find the assignment entitled MUSIC and submit your work.

Why is Music Important?

Did you know that music making is part of what makes humans human? Every culture makes music. Not only that, every past culture has made music too. Musical instruments are amongst the oldest man-made objects ever found. For example, there are flutes around 37,000 years old and perhaps even older!

Compare this with reading and writing. The earliest forms of writing are no more than about 3500 years old. And many cultures of the world still do not read or write.

Or how about this? Scientists have recently discovered that music affects many parts of our brain very deeply (grown-ups can look at the book This is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin to find out more). But you don’t need to be a scientist to understand that! Try singing ‘Happy Birthday’ or a Christmas song and you will understand. What do these tunes make you think of? How do they make you feel? You’ll be filled with all sorts of memories and feelings when you hear these tunes—many more than would if you simply said the words ‘birthday’ or ‘Christmas’.

Music Help Human to Express Themselves

Whether you are music enthusiast or not, the best way you can express your feelings, anger, love, passion, joy and other kinds of feelings is simply through music. It is rightly said that when words and letters failed the best option is music. You will be able to express the intent of your heart through music which ordinarily may not be possible for you to either do in words or letters.

So in the same way having music in the background of video brings emotion to the film. Most often the background music does not have words just melody's. The background sound is called a score.