kids and music

I'm with DJP. My 4yo is too young to be able to find her own music, so her favourite stuff is from what we've played: she's mad for Bowie (The Laughing Gnome, Scary Monsters, Wild is the wind, and the Labyrinth ST), iggy pop's Lust for Life, Grimes, and jazz.

Plus the Frozen OST, and i also made the mistake of taking her to see Trolls.

I'm pretty sure I posted this at the time on the photos thread - but this is what Lulu did (then aged 8) to my fridge one Saturday morning around 6am. It's still all there, just a little curled at the edges now.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7664/17263179311_71909601f9_b.jpg

my 2 year old loves Pentatonix. help.

xp that is amazing

my kid loves the Steven Tyler song on the Polar Express soundtrack so much that I'm afraid to let him hear Aerosmith

http://www.theonion.com/article/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h-26132
^ This is a v real fear. My 8 & 6 year old have a pretty consistent playlist of Carly Rae, Katy Perry, 1D, Little Mix, Taylor Swift etc etc which they pick from school dance classes, youtube etc. Actually got much more into Taylor as a result. But they do pick up on things from spotify, R6 etc - currently like Sacred Paws, xx, and bizarrely QT, as well as Bowie, Prince and, as they insist on calling him, Iggy Pop-Pop (pop-pop being their slang for fart aiui)

i don't currently have kids but i'm not gonna front, the idea of raising a child who might one day boldly proclaim her love for mary timony on the family fridge is tipping the scales towards a 'yes' on people-making

I will repeat

My kid and his friends all listen to Sublime.

― how's life, Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:46 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

through no fault of my own.

ow a wiley
indie ball

perfect rendition of Wuthering Heights from my 2-year-old

Requested cyndi lauper this morning (?) and 'be quiet orange one' (bjork)

watching Han loving Cabaret yday was a treat

okay the sublime factor is tipping me back towards a 'no' on people-making, thx how's life

I'm just saying it's a gamble.

i dunno if i have the stones to roll those bones dude

Mine figured out how to use AudioShare to record & import sounds into Sector today without any help from dad

or mom

lulu otm

For the past few weeks my 2yo has required that I rock him to sleep to a cover of the Thompson Twin's "Hold Me Now" by someone named Eden XO. Asked for it twice last night.

Maybe I've just gotten used to them, but I don't mind the Music Together CDs too much. I'd definitely take those over Music for Aardvarks.

my 2 year old loves Pentatonix. help

My 2.5 year old was totally obsessed with their Sesame Street numbers song cover, he called it POW and demanded to watch it repeatedly a couple months ago. Then it just stopped. Same thing with the Truck Tunes videos on Youtube, though sometimes he does sing some of those songs randomly while playing with trucks. He's also at the stage where he's starting to sing all the time, mostly classic kid hits that he hears at daycare which is funny as shit because he sort of plays with the melody and the lyrics aren't all there yet.

He really isn't interested in any music that I play around the house, though sometimes he'll dance to dancehall reggae stuff, and will sort of shake his head back and forth when I listen to Slayer or Metallica (he also does this same motion when I grind coffee at the store).

But he loves watching it - we'd take him to university events with the marching band and he would just go nuts yelling DRUMS TUBAS TROMBONES! and talking about them for the next couple days. He also is really into watching some episodes of Austin City Limits (Iggy Pop, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, Paul Simon) and will sometimes play his kid drum set along while watching.

we briefly had Pitch Perfect 2 on and she was not enthralled at all so that bullet has been dodged, for now

bullet dodge didn't last long. ruh roh

Should we have a thread for our progeny and their app creations? ref the IMM thread on making music with an ipad

Happy to just put that stuff here. Here is what Ben made recently:
https://soundcloud.com/djisbister/bip-05-reflection-by-benjamin-isbister

KRFT is amazing.

ac/D.C.'s "TNT" was an early favorite of my boys. They also ask me to play it on guitar at home and the younger one seems eager to learn it himself. It's damn simple so a good starting point.

Ha! Owen just started learning Thunderstruck last night.

Whoa DJI that really is a p cool track!

that track is pretty darn good! also i initially misread your name as DJP and i thought it was one of his little guys making it.

My daughter plays a game with me where she holds my hand by the wrist and uses it to make me slap myself with it. Today it occurred to me to show her the Losing My Edge video and she got a real kick out of trying to make me slap my face at the same time James Murphy got slapped.

One more: https://soundcloud.com/djisbister/weather

My 13 yo is obsessed w k-pop. Actually obsessed is an understatement. HALP

From my youngest: "Have you ever heard of Imagine Dragons? They're pretty much my favorite band now."

my 6yo told me his top 5 list of favorite singers:

5. Coolio
4. Weird Al
3. They Might Be Giants guy
2. Lin Manuel Miranda
1. Whoever sang that song we heard in the car today that goes "Mmmm mmm Everybody mmmm mmm"

lol @ both. i always thought imagine dragons was something only a kid could like.

My almost six year old is WAY into BTS and is going to learn korean so he can join the band when he turns 14

Her road to Imagine Dragons fandom came through the world of Minecraft animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXFX2v7flk

my 11-y-o had a BTS phase that lasted about three weeks. he's now listening to popsmoke. ffs

slippery slope

Any recommendations for apps or interactive websites for kids to start to learn the basics of music? Note values, rhythm, rests, and on from there... Seven-year-old will be starting his first piano lessons in a couple of months and I would like to give him a better foundation before he starts. I've taught him some of it but I'm no music educator. Barely a musician at all.

Or even youtube videos or series of good quality?