Prelude #2
Rhythm Prep: Beat/No Beat
1. Zip-a-dee-do-dah: Sing and move
Normal Mode
Play Song Zip-a-dee-do-dah
Have students:
• Section A: Percussion Keep steady beat on 3 black keys for this section.
• Section B: Bird Tweet Send “birds” to student keyboards (students play freely with
no beat during this section)
• Section A: Percussion Keep steady beat on 3 black keys.
Activity Completed
NOTE: You may wish to send Preset 1 since you've been using a "sound effect" (Bird Tweet)
for student keyboards.
2. Five Drummers
Students directions: Tap ascending black keys on grayed
syllables for first phrase [steady beat]
- improvise up and down on white keys for last phrase [no beat].
Normal Mode Percussion
Five
little drum-mers,
march
-ing to the beat
Up and down, go their feet, go their feet
Footsteps
Director blew the whistle and they scrambled to the right.
One turned left and marched out of sight.
Four
little drum-mers,
march
-ing to the beat
(continue same as above…three…… two….one…, etc.)
Last verse:
Silent Keyboard
No
little drum-mers,
march
-ing to the beat
Director blew the whistle and looked all around,
There were no more drummers to be found.
Sound on Keyboards
Activity Completed
NOTE: You may wish to send Preset 1 since you've been using a "sound effect" (Bird Tweet)
for student keyboards.
3. CD Listening
Play the following CD 2 selections and ask students to show whether or not the music has
beat or no beat:
Prelude (Voiles) Debussy
[no beat]
Mouret Rondeau
[beat]
Clarke Martial Air [beat]
Chants d' Auvergne
[no beat]
Pachanga Oriental
[beat]
Activity Completed
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