Play along with "Variation 1."

If this is too fast for your students, use the gear tool to slow it down.

Is it fast/slow? Loud/quiet?

Play along with "Variation 2"

If this is too fast for your students, use the gear tool to slow it down.

Is it fast/slow? Loud/quiet?

Is it the same, similar, or different than "Variation 1?" How?

Use a printable composition template to create a 16 beat rhythm to play along with the theme.

Use the interactive rhythm composition tool to create your rhythm composition.

Create a rhythm you can play along with Mozart.

Copy your rhythm to a piece of paper.

The audio link is given below. (Theme or Mozart's Theme and Variations)

Play your rhythm composition along with the theme.

How did Mozart change the theme in the variations that you played along with?

Divide the class into two groups. Have one group sing the "boom di ah da" as an ostinato while the rest of the class sings the entire song. When the students are successful with the ostinato, try it as a two-part round. If you sing this song in a round, have everyone sing the second last line as needed until all groups have sung it once, then sing the very last line in unison.

Echo every solfa pattern except the poison pattern.

Clap the rhythms in the song.

If you can, read the solfa notes? It starts on do.

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Teach the song by rote.
• Sing or play a phrase and have students echo.
• Combine phrases.
• Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.œ

Watch the kids in the video do the actions for the song.
Sing along and copy the movements.

The song goes a moderate speed first. Then it goes faster.

And then it goes even faster. Can you do the actions at all speeds?

Try the Tempo Interactive activity.

Start with Level 2 or 3.

Choose a tempo.

Then, try clapping the pattern at the tempo you have chosen.

Try a new tempo.

If you aren't sure what the tempo words mean, look at the teaching slides.

Read the slide to learn the meaning of some of the words used in the song.

• Sing or play a phrase and have students echo.
• Combine phrases.
• Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.œ

This is an external link.

If the link doesn't work for you, google "What is a Didgeridoo?" to find a similar video

This is an external link to a video of traditional didgeridoo rhythms.

If this link doesn't work for you, google, "Traditional Didgeridoo Rhythms by Lewis Burns."