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Category Archives: Songs
65/100 Pentatonic Composition
Here’s an idea for call-and-response pentatonic song composition. I started by teaching the song “Hill ‘n’ Gully Ride-a” – but you can skip this step if you like. The children just need to understand the concept of call-and-response; here’s an example; … Continue reading
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Tagged call and response
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59/100 Music Resources from Oxfam
While on the hunt for music for “Cauliflowers Fluffy” I discovered that Oxfam have a whole load of resources for music – Hurray! I have copied and pasted this ENORMOUS link into my browser and found a host of Harvest … Continue reading
58/100 Cauliflowers Fluffy
Today I had another go at teaching “Cauliflowers fluffy”. Yesterday I was able to stream the song, lyrics, backing tracks etc using my www.singup.org membership, as an interim while we searched high and low for the CD, which we will … Continue reading
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54/100 “So-Mi” songs, Bee Bee
Another So-mi song which I use all the time with classes up to the age of about 7 It’s well worth indicating the pitch movement in the melody, with Kodaly hand movements or just by moving your hand up, down, … Continue reading
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Tagged pulse and rhythm, singing game, so mi songs
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53/100 “So-mi” songs – Leo the Lion
I have updated the ukulele page with some more simple songs, using Am7 (open strings), C chord, and F chord, but, looking back, I haven’t published the notation for these songs before. So here are a few posts to get … Continue reading
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Tagged call and response, pulse and rhythm, singing game, so mi songs
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28/100 Singing games – “Over the garden wall”
Oh, I should have made it clear that it was Michelangelo who was 87 years old, not me, in this quote that I shared a few days ago. Anyway, how ever old I am, I still like to add a … Continue reading
16/100 What do you keep in YOUR bag?
Anyone who knows me is not surprised when strange things fall out of my handbag… I’ve currently got a stray ocarina, a samba whistle and some cheapo finger cymbals rattling around in the deep dark recesses of my bag. And this … Continue reading
15/100 1,2,3 It’s Good to Be Me
Great song for Keystage 1 and Early Years; It is on www.singup.org, and also on youtube here, with words and signing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igmU0b65WCU and here, as a backing track and words only; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYexa_3uFGc I haven’t tried signing properly it yet. I … Continue reading
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Tagged internalising the pulse, keystage 1, pulse
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