January music lessons get an EASY kickstart with this Orff arrangement and improvisation play along to a FUN backing track.
This new year poem resource with sixteenth notes and a simple Orff arrangement, will guide you through improvising on barred instruments as you play along to a FUN backing track.
Available in both PowerPoint™️ and Google Slides™️ formats.
Music & Resource Analysis
- C Major la-based pentatonic scale
- 2/4
- Rhythmic Content-sixteenths (4), quarter notes/rests, barred eighths
- Harmonic Content-Am, C, C6 (opt. ukulele)
- Barred Instruments-improvisation and simple ostinati
- Boomwhackers (opt)-create a new melody using poem rhythm
- Rhythm Assessment
Student & Teacher Benefits
January Music Engagement
- use speech, body percussion, and movement to help learn the instrumental parts
- create and improvise
- guided through the learning process with a sequenced resource
- learn with a presentation that uses differentiation through color-coding and varying text styles
- guided through the process of improvising in la-based C pentatonic
Instrumentation
- barred instruments (any combination will work)
- claves
- ukulele (opt) chord C or C6
- spoken voices
Speaking of Sixteenth Notes
Here are more resources featuring prominent 16th notes!
More Great Learning in January
Martin Luther King Day happens so quickly once we return from winter break. Here are some great resources!
- Learning About MLK Through Music
- We Shall Not Be Moved (how to use in the classroom)
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