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Cheers To The New Year With JANUARY Music BEATS Play Along

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.

January Beats Orff Resource Cover Image

Available in both PowerPoint™️ and Google Slides™️ formats.

Look & Listen

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
January Beats Orff Resource Lesson Plans

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
January Beats Orff Resource Instruments
  • 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

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Tideo Easy Orff Arrangement and Sixteenth Note Practice

Tideo, the classic folk song, is a great choice if you are looking for mi, re, do melody and sixteenth note rhythm practice packaged in a step-by-step presentation that includes a fun and easy Orff arrangement.

The classic folk song Tideo with an Orff arrangement, melody practice with mi, re, do, and rhythm practice with sixteenth notes.

Melody & Rhythm Practice

Students will love the singing games/dances while experiencing mi, re, do in the melody (a video Poison Pattern game) and sixteenth notes in the rhythm. 

January Beats is another great resource that uses four sixteenths!

The classic folk song Tideo with an Orff arrangement, melody practice with mi, re, do, and rhythm practice with sixteenth notes.
See the presentation preview on TPT

Easy Orff Arrangement

In C pentatonic, Tideo’s easy Orff arrangement using three ostinati can be expanded to include an optional instrumental B section and an improvised C section.

The instrumental parts are taught using speech and body percussion in easy-to-follow slides. Use this multi-lesson low/no prep format in either Google Slides or PowerPoint.

The classic folk song Tideo with an Orff arrangement that includes 3 ostinati, speech, body percussion, then transfer to instruments.

The Presentation

  • Singing Game/Dance-the presentation teaches a double circle routine.
  • Rhythm-*quarters, paired eighths, and 4 sixteenths in the song.
    • Rhythm-*Eighth note with 2 sixteenths in the B section
  • Melody–mi, re, do is highlighted in the presentation
    • Melody-the song also includes high do
  • Orff Arrangement-a 3 ostinati arrangement with additional parts for optional B and C sections
  • Other Instruments: Recorder/Boomwhacker-notation and melodic color-coding using C, D, E, G, A, C’
    • Ukulele-LOVE these pentatonic tunes so one chord, C, the entire time.

*Rhythms aren’t labeled so you can use your classroom rhythm counting system.

My Favorite Part
I LOVE that you can extend the form and add lots of different instruments to the point this fun song could easily become a concert piece.

The resource includes:
A presentation in both PPT and Google Slides versions
A video preview of the song arrangement in each presentation
A PDF copy of the song arrangement sheet music

Hear the arrangement on TPT
The classic folk song Tideo with an Orff arrangement, melody practice with mi, re, do, and rhythm practice with sixteenth notes that comes in Powerpoint and Google Slides presentation formats.

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