By Denise Gagne.
Boomwhackers® are colorful plastic tubes that can be used to play melodies, rhythms, or chords. In this book, there are 9 songs to sing with Boomwhackers® accompaniment or improvisation, 2, 3, and 4-part rhythm ensembles, and melodies to play on Boomwhackers®.
In addition to this wealth of performance material, there are visuals and reproducibles to copy to help your students learn to compose rhythms, melodies, and songs using Boomwhackers®, recorders, or Orff instruments, for timbre and texture.
The audio provided includes a vocal performance to learn the songs and accompaniments only for songs and melodies. Includes music for all the songs, and many reproducibles to project or print.
Paperback & Digital Download
What's included:
- Printed Book
- Digital Book PDF
- Audio MP3
- PowerPoints
Activities are designed for 4 sets of Diatonic Boomwhackers (2850).
Table of Contents
- What are Boomwhackers®
- Activity #1: Follow the Leader
- Activity #2: Improvisation
- Ostinato Patterns to Accompany Improvisation
- Activity #3: Improvisation Within a Song
- Here’s a Song That’s Really Neat
- Activity #4: Create a Rhythm Composition
- Note Squares
- Activity #5: Write Rhythms on a Beat Chart
- Nine Ways to Play Rhythm Compositions
- Beat Charts
- Rhythm Compositions
- Activity #6: ABA Form - Sing and Play a B Section
- Activity #7: AABA Form - Sing and Play a B Section
- Activity #8: Sing and Play a Rondo
- Activity #9: Rhythm Composition with an Ostinato
- Activity #10: Two Part Rhythm Composition
- Activity #11: Three and Four Part Rhythm Compositions
- Activity #12: Orchestrate a Poem
- Chants and Poems to Orchestrate
- Activity #13: Play a Three Note Melody
- Activity #14: Create a Three Note Melody
- Melody Template in 4/4
- Melody Template in 3/4
- Melody Template in 2/4
- Activity #15: Play and Create do-mi-so Melodies
- Activity #16: Play and Create Pentatonic Melodies
- Activity #17: Play and Create Diatonic Melodies
- Activity #18: Create a Melody for a Poem
- Activity #19: Write Variations on a Theme
- Activity #20: Write a Song
- Manuscript Paper
Songs, Ensembles, and Orchestrated Poems
- Follow the Leader
- One One Time for Fun!
- Here’s a Song That’s Really Neat
- Two Part Ensembles
- Three Part Ensembles
- Four Part Ensembles
- You Play it This Way
- Did You Ever Hear a Rhythm?
- Pirolito se bate se bate
- Whacky Kind of Sound
- I Like to Play the Instruments
- Tingalayo
- Whacky Kind of Music
- I am a Fine Musician
- Cheki Morena
- Two Little Sausages
- Hot Cross Buns in C/F
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody in C/F
- Fais dodo in C/F
- Mary Had a Little Lamb in C/F
- Closet Key in C/F
- Pease Porridge Hot
- Johnny One Hammer in C/F
- Let us Chase the Squirrel in C/F
- Make a Friend
- Rocky Mountain
- Shortnin’ Bread
- Tulip Round
- Scale Round
- Variations on Hot Cross Buns
Listen to Samples:
NOTE: This is NOT the full track listing.
