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Saturday, August 20, 2005
Mossouri / Boomwhackers
MO was fun! This was my second time to be in MO and they run a very smooth conference over there. Tanya Franks excellent job! There was a precious couple in my conference that had been teaching preschool music for more than 50 years! Wow! I asked them "Don't you think that you should be up here teaching and I should be taking notes." With the sweetest smile they replied, "When we stop learning we need to quit." I pray that I can always have a teachable spirit.
Extremely Useful Instruments seemed to be the biggest hits again. This time I'm going to feature Boomwhackers in my notes.
Boomwhackers are very fun and are fairly inexpensive. You can order them from www.rhythmband.com, www.musicinmotion.com, www.westmusic.com just to name a few. If you have a good rhythm track you can allow each child to have a boomwhacker and keep the steady beat.
A Boomwhacker is a plastic toned tube. You hit them on the floor, your foot, your hand, your knee - anywhere - to get a sound. The notes are marked on the Boomwhackers themselves.
We featured a song titled "Did You Hear About the Baby?" We will use the chords F, Bb, and C. The pattern of the chords is F, F, Bb, C. This pattern takes two measures taping each chord on beats 1 and 3 respectively.
The F chord consist of F, A, and C. The Bb Chord consist of Bb, D, and F. If you do not have the chromatic set to have the Bb, just use D and F and it will still sound much the same. The C chord consist of C, E, G.
Each note of the Boomwhackers is colored coded and for the most part matches the colors of the melody bells we spoke about last week.
Have fun using the Boomwhackers! :-)
Keep Singing,
Darlene
Extremely Useful Instruments seemed to be the biggest hits again. This time I'm going to feature Boomwhackers in my notes.
Boomwhackers are very fun and are fairly inexpensive. You can order them from www.rhythmband.com, www.musicinmotion.com, www.westmusic.com just to name a few. If you have a good rhythm track you can allow each child to have a boomwhacker and keep the steady beat.
A Boomwhacker is a plastic toned tube. You hit them on the floor, your foot, your hand, your knee - anywhere - to get a sound. The notes are marked on the Boomwhackers themselves.
We featured a song titled "Did You Hear About the Baby?" We will use the chords F, Bb, and C. The pattern of the chords is F, F, Bb, C. This pattern takes two measures taping each chord on beats 1 and 3 respectively.
The F chord consist of F, A, and C. The Bb Chord consist of Bb, D, and F. If you do not have the chromatic set to have the Bb, just use D and F and it will still sound much the same. The C chord consist of C, E, G.
Each note of the Boomwhackers is colored coded and for the most part matches the colors of the melody bells we spoke about last week.
Have fun using the Boomwhackers! :-)
Keep Singing,
Darlene
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