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We're Making Music

Submitted by Phyllis Thomas, Flower Mound, Texas

Idea posted 2007-04-26

My third grade classes performed "We're Making Music" this fall. We used body percussion (see below) on the beat of the opening and closing sections and instruments in the middle section. We started the body percussion when the singing began.

stomp X4
pat X4
clap X4
snap X4 (repeat)
stomp X2
pat X2
clap X2
snap X2 (repeat 3 times)
stomp X1 (on "now")
pat X1
clap X1
snap X1 (repeat 3 times)

For the ending, we repeated the last body percussion pattern until the final "Music."