Do You Hear The Drum?
"Do you hear the .... drum? ..... Do you hear the .... drum? ... The drum ... the drum ... goes diggy diggy dat boom boom!"
Chant it together; chant it in canon in groups of two; chant it in canon in groups of four; perform it on your bodies; perform it on your bodies in canon; perform it on instruments in trios (one person with drum sticks, two people with drum heads).
Chant it together; chant it in canon in groups of two; chant it in canon in groups of four; perform it on your bodies; perform it on your bodies in canon; perform it on instruments in trios (one person with drum sticks, two people with drum heads).
Creative Bodies
Compose two 32-beat sections using stomps, pats, claps, and snaps. Teach these contrasting sections (A and B sections) to the class. Use the body percussion rondos from the Body Percussion Rondo Book by Jim Solomon for inspiration and guidance on how to notate one. Develop a lesson on form using your body percussion composition. Teach your body percussion rondo to the class. Write a teaching reflection.
Tiny Desk Performance
With a group of friends, select a popular song to rearrange for an NPR Tiny Desk performance or Tonight Show Classroom Instruments performance. Refine this, film it, post it.
Creation Station
Create a 1.5 minute composition using the loop browsers in GarageBand or an equivalent Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Directions:
1. Open the loop browser in GarageBand, Logic, ProTools, Sonar, or Reason programs.
2. Choose 4 related loops – 1 melodic (solo instrument), 1 harmonic (piano or
guitar accompaniment), 1 rhythmic (drums, kits, beats, percussion), and 1 bass line.
3. Add or drag and drop these 4 loops into the main timeline.
4. Create an “A” section by layering in the loops. You can make the loops repeat by
cutting and pasting multiple times or by clicking and dragging to the right in some
programs. This will repeat the loop as many times as you wish (in programs like
GarageBand and Logic, loop length is indicated by notches).
5. Create a contrasting “B” section by choosing 4 new loops and repeating the above steps.
6. Transition back to your “A” section material.
Directions:
1. Open the loop browser in GarageBand, Logic, ProTools, Sonar, or Reason programs.
2. Choose 4 related loops – 1 melodic (solo instrument), 1 harmonic (piano or
guitar accompaniment), 1 rhythmic (drums, kits, beats, percussion), and 1 bass line.
3. Add or drag and drop these 4 loops into the main timeline.
4. Create an “A” section by layering in the loops. You can make the loops repeat by
cutting and pasting multiple times or by clicking and dragging to the right in some
programs. This will repeat the loop as many times as you wish (in programs like
GarageBand and Logic, loop length is indicated by notches).
5. Create a contrasting “B” section by choosing 4 new loops and repeating the above steps.
6. Transition back to your “A” section material.