Tag Archives: cyclic patterns

New Year Issue 117: Monkey Business

Posted on January 2, 2014 by

Lying in bed before the alarm went off this morning, I came up with this little body/vocal percussion number Monkey Business 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + Big Ba- boon (stamp) (click) Chimp-  -an zee (click)  (click) tan … Continue reading →

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Issue 84: Stamping Tubes from the Solomon Islands

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

I am teaching cyclic patterns this term with a Year 5 and 6 class. We have got the Music Express books at this school, and they have a music clip of stamping tubes played in the Solomon islands (link to Geography … Continue reading →

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