Prelude #4
Rhythm Prep: Tempo
1. A Ram Sam Sam: sing/move/play using fast and slow tempos
Have students:
• sing melody at different tempos
• Play Song A Ram Sam Sam
• move to steady beat at different tempos
• play clusters of three black keys with song at different tempos (encourage steady beat)
Activity Completed
2. Create fast and slow sounds to illustrate a story
Ensemble Mode Speakers Off
Low Side (Cat Shwimmer
High Side (Mouse): Castanets
Share the following story with the students:
The old cat creeps slowly through the house.
The mouse hears the cat and quickly runs away.
Have students:
• practice playing two and three black key clusters fast and slow on silent keyboards
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Silent Keyboards
• listen to keyboards and decide with partners who has cat or mouse sounds
Keyboards On
• practice slow cat and fast mouse sounds with partner
• perform the story with the created sounds (partner or class)
Speakers On
Activity Completed
NOTE: You may wish to send Preset 1 since you've been using "sound effects" for student key-
boards.
3. CD examples: listen
Play CD 2 examples:
Play Song Air from Suite #3 - Bach
Play Song You All Come
Play CD 1 examples:
Play Song My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now
Play Song On Green DolphinStreet
Ask students to listen and identify tempos:
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Air = slow
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You All Come = fast
•
Green Dolphin Street = slow
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My Feet = fast
Activity Completed
Prelude #5
Rhythm Prep: Long/Short
1. Hidden Voices: play/discuss long and short sounds
Ensemble Mode Speakers Off
Low Side: Strings Pizzicato
High Side: Brite Piano Church Organ
Low Side: Jetplane Footsteps
High Side: Atmosphere Steel Drum
Low Side: Saxophone Woodblock
High Side: Ocarina Dog
Low Side: Blown Bottle Flute Key Click
High Side: Choir Aahs Harpsichord
Have students:
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decide with partners who has long or short sound
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explore/discuss long and short sounds in each set
Activity Completed
NOTE: You may wish to send Preset 1 since you've been using different timbres for student
keyboards.
2. La Paloma/Ol' Blue: move to long sounds
Play Melody La Paloma
Play Song La Paloma
Have students:
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move to show sustained notes - i.e. draw invisible lines to show the long sounds
Play Melody Ol’ Blue
Play Song Ol’ Blue
Have students:
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sing the melody
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sing and move to show the long sounds
Activity Completed
3. CD Listening: listen/move to short/long sounds
Examples from CD 1:
Play Song Ballet of the Chicks
Have students:
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listen and move to show short sounds
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play short sounds along with CD
Low Side: Flute Key Click
High Side: Flute Key Click
Play Song Also Sprach Zarathustra
Have students:
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listen and move to show long and short sounds
•
play long and short sounds along with CD
Split Bass
Low Side: Strings
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