Echo do-re-mi melodies

Practice echoing do-re-mi melodies.

If playing Match the Melody, consider having students notate the answer on a staff board with pennies, bingo chips or markers instead of showing the answer with 1-2-3 fingers.

Play Match the Melody - Level 4 (mi-re-do)

If using this option, consider having students notate the answer on a staff board with pennies, bingo chips or markers instead of showing the answer with 1-2-3 fingers.

Read the rhythms in the song "Black Snake". If you haven't introduced the rhythm ti ta ti, consider using this song to do so.

Ask the students if there are any phrases that are the same. (The first three lines are the same).

Ask the students if they can find any place in the song where they hear a rhythm that goes short long short.

Show them how the rhythm is written and tell them it's called "ti-ta-ti". Have the students tap the rhythm of the words as they sing.

Read the rhythm.

Name the solfa notes in "Black Snake."

If you don't do solfa notes at your school, skip this activity and name the pitch letter names instead.

Name the pitch letter notes in "Black Snake."

Use different dynamics to help your classmate find the snake. Choose one student to hide the snake somewhere in the classroom in plain sight - not under or inside something. A second student is chosen to hunt for the snake. The class guides the "finder" to the snake by singing softly when they are far away from the snake and louder when they are closer.

Use this song to review or teach the Italian musical terms that describe dynamics.

Learn about the composer George Friderick Handel.

Play along with "Concerto in B-flat" by Handel.

Choose two kinds of instruments to play along with music by Handel. One kind should play with the strings, and the other with the organ.

This rhythm video and the next one uses the rhythm ti-ta-ti. Do you remember this pattern from the song "Black Snake"?

Play along with the video using the instruments you have chosen.

Compare the styles of music in each example.
Have the students tell you which style they prefer and why.

This rhythm video and the previous one uses the rhythm ti-ta-ti.
Play along with the video using the instruments you have chosen.

Compare the styles of music in each example.
Have the students tell you which style they prefer and why.

This is a cumulative song. Create and add actions as suggested by the words and stretch your brain to try to remember them all.

Create and add actions as suggested by the words.

Extension: Choose unpitched instruments to substitute for each part of the body. Play the instruments each time the body part is name in the song.