Uppers Band Rising to the Challenge (6th-8th)

At the start of the second trimester in January, the Uppers Band made the bold move of choosing a trimester-long project: a music video to revive an all school song that had been lost to the pandemic. They chose the rockin' bop known as Humpty Dumpty. It's a song that plays with some of the most well known nursery rhymes- Twinkle Twinkle, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Old King Cole, etc.- and makes them rock out a bit. Students have been working to create both the scenes for the video, the dances, and a multi-track recording of voices and instruments. 

It's the kind of project that sometimes can't come to fruition because of all the small moving parts, but the Uppers were determined. If one of the video stars is absent for a day, how do we fill in? If people have different ideas about how to shoot a scene, how do we compromise? Over time, students gave a little less importance to their own particular wants and saw that they needed to pitch in and/or give for the sake of the larger goal. In addition, the amount of focus that goes into group recording of music is really something else. The recording process, as well as filming, took so many takes, but we can see it was worth the effort.

Below is the recording of just the students' voices, not the whole video, which will drop soon! Please give it a listen so you can sing your heart out to it at an upcoming all school: