Composing With Boomwhackers®

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CONTENTS:

Activities and Photocopy Masters:

  • What are Boomwhackers®?
  • Activity #1: Follow the Leader
  • Activity #2: Improvisation
  • Ostinato Patterns to Accompany Improvisation
  • Activity #3: Improvisation within a Song
  • Activity #4: Create a Rhythm Composition
  • Note Squares
  • Activity #5: Write Rhythms on a Beat Chart
  • Ten Ways to Play a Rhythm Composition
  • Beat Charts
  • Activity #6: ABA Form - Create and Play a B Section
  • Activity #7: AABA Form - Create and Play a B Section
  • Activity #8: Create and Play a Rondo
  • Activity #9: Rhythm Composition with an Ostinato
  • Activity #10: Two Part Rhythm Composition
  • Activity #11: 3 and 4 Part Rhythm Compositions
  • Activity #12: Orchestrate a Poem
  • Chants and Poems to Orchestrate
  • Activity #13: Playing a 3 Note Melody
  • Activity #14: Creating a 3 Note Melody
  • Melody Template in 4/4
  • Melody Template in 3/4
  • Melody Template in 2/4
  • Activity #15: Play and Create a Do-Mi-So Melody
  • Activity #16: Play and Create a Pentatonic Melody
  • Activity #17: Play and Create a Diatonic Melody
  • 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:

  • Cheki Morena
  • Closet Key in C/F
  • Did You Ever Hear A Rhythm
  • Fais Dodo
  • Follow The Leader
  • Four Part Ensembles
  • Go Tell Aunt Rhody in C/F
  • Here's A Song That's Really Neat
  • Hot Cross Buns in C/F
  • Hot Cross Buns Variations
  • I Am A Fine Musician
  • I Like To Play The Instruments
  • Johnny One Hammer
  • Let Us Chase The Squirrel
  • Make A Friend
  • Mary Had A Little Lamb in C/F
  • One One Time For Fun
  • Pease Porridge Hot
  • Pirolito
  • Rocky Mountain
  • Scale Round
  • Shortnin' Bread
  • Three Part Ensembles
  • Tingalayo
  • Tulip Round
  • Two Little Sausages
  • Two Part Ensembles
  • Whacky Kind of Music
  • Whacky Kind Of Sound
  • You Play It This Way