What Would You Do?

This spooky song is best explained by listening to it on the recording. It is a cumulative song. On each repeat, measures 12 and 13 accumulate backwards, allowing effects soloists to show off again and again. (Think "Twelve Days Of Christmas.") Once your students understand, they'll pick it up quickly.

The song is in a delightful, old-fashioned jazzy style, complete with (optional) background singers doing a swinging, divisi response to the melody. (You may want to assign this part to a small group of older singers.) The melody itself is quite easy, so it won't get in the way of all the fun stuff! The fun stuff includes all of the solo sound effects and the spoken solos at the end of each verse.

Each effect is featured briefly as it is mentioned during the cumulative part. You can pick the same soloist for each rendition, or mix and match soloists to give more students a chance to participate. From the fifth ending on, it's your choice which sound effect solo is plugged into each spot in the music. We mixed ours up a little bit for fun. Make sure the effects and the spoken single word solos at this point don't conflict with each other too much (though enthusiasm may rule...).

Note: Part 2 is not included on the lyric page. The words are very repetitious and we didn't want to clutter the page.

Online extras - Rehearsal tracks for the background singers (part 2) can be found online. You will find these under the "Graphics and Extras" for Volume 16, No. 1 at MusicK8.com