BAGaLoPoLis Table of Contents Full/Tracks

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2 BAGaLoPoLis Table of Contents Page Full/Tracks It s All About B Reproducible Student Part /24 ABAcus Reproducible Student Part /6 Au Clair de la BAG Reproducible Student Part /8 Aunt BAGgy s Roadie Reproducible Student Part /0 Hot Cross BAGs On Safari Reproducible Student Part /= If I Only Had A BAG Reproducible Student Part... 7 q/w Merrily We BAG Our Groceries Reproducible Student Part... 8 e/r Starship BAG Reproducible Student Part... 9 t/yu Teaching Notes for BAGALOPOLIS Guide To Tracks on the Compact Disc Survey An Important Notice About Your Rights To Duplicate With the purchase of this product, you (one teacher) may legally duplicate the reproducible student parts for use with your students, no matter how many students you have, even if you teach in more than one school. Permission to duplicate and/or share this book or recording with anyone else is not granted and is considered a copyright infringement. Permission is granted to duplicate the accompanying CD for back-up purposes only. Please don t teach your students to steal. The people who write and publish this music depend on its sales for their livelihood. Not only is it illegal for you to freely duplicate their work without their permission, it is also unfair and it sets a bad example for your students. We will always fight for your rights to better pay and working conditions, and as one of the few active elementary music publishers, we invest most of our profits in new music and resources for you. We also take care to provide real value in our products. In return, we ask for your support of our rights. Thank you. 1

3 CD Full Performance - tracks 1 & 3; Accompaniment only - tracks 2 & 4 It s All About B drums set-up & # # # techno rock (Î=138) or (Î=152) # # c 8 John Riggio & # # # Å # 9 #. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # # # # # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # # # # # ı 17 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # # # # # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # # # # # ı 25 Ó Ó Ó Ó & # # # # # Ó Ó Ó Ó. & # # # # # ı33 Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó & # # # # # Ó Ó Ó œ Ó 2

4 CD Full Performance - track 5; Accompaniment only - track 6 ABAcus electric fusion (Î=116) & c 8 John Riggio Å 9 &. Ó œ œ Ó & Ó.. & Å 17 Ó Ó & Ó Ó & ı 25 w w w & w.. & ı 33 Ó œ œ Ó Ó &. œ œ œ œ œ Ó 3

5 CD Full Performance - track 7; Accompaniment only - track 8 Au Clair de la BAG & c light jazz (Î=92) 4 Traditional arr. John Riggio & Å 5 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & Å 13 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó ı 21 & Ó œ œ œ Ó ı 26 & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó w 4

6 CD Full Performance - track 9; Accompaniment only - track 10 Aunt BAGgy s Roadie & # c appalachian rock (Î=120) 8 Traditional arr. John Riggio & # Å9 œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & # 17Å œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & #ı25 œ œ & # œ œ 2 2 & # ı33 œ œ œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó div., opt. w 5

7 CD Full Performance - track 11; Accompaniment only - track 12 Hot Cross BAGs On Safari & # jungle beat (Î=76) c 6 Traditional arr. John Riggio & # Å7 Ó Ó & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & # 15Å Ó Ó & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & # ı23 œ œ œ Ó 6

8 CD Full Performance - track 13; Accompaniment only - track 14 If I Only Had A BAG drums set-up & # 80's rock ballad (Î=86) c 8 John Riggio & #. Å9 œ œ. œ œ. & # œ œ. œ œ. & # 17Å. œ. œ œ œ œ. & # Å 21 œ œ œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ. & #ı29. w œ Ó 7

9 CD Full Performance - track 15; Accompaniment only - track 16 Merrily We BAG Our Groceries & # light jazz (Î=90) c 4 Traditional arr. John Riggio & # Å5 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & # 13Å œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó & # 18Å œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & # œ œ œ Ó 8

10 CD Full Performance - track 17; Accompaniment only - tracks 18 & 19 Starship BAG space effects where no man has rocked before (Î=120) & c 8 John Riggio Å 9 &. w Ó w Ó œ œ & w Ó w. &Å 17.. &.. &ı 25 œ œ. œ œ. & œ œ. œ œ. ı 33 &. w Ó w Ó œ œ w & Ó w. ı 41 w œ Ó 9

11 Notes For BAGaLoPoLis In BAGaLoPoLis, we ve created a collection of new resources to help make the first lessons for recorder more interesting for teachers and students. All pieces feature a guide melody on the accompaniment tracks, so students will be able to follow along. It s All About B Write us a recorder tune that uses only the note B, John! Make sure it has an interesting chord progression, and while you re at it, make sure it has a good beat and you can dance to it! No problem!, I said, choking back the tears... OK, it didn t come down quite like that, but the powers that be did want an all B tune. It s All About B is a fun, techno rock piece, and as you may have guessed by now, only has the note B in the melody. We ve done two versions of it fast and slow to make the song more useful as students improve. (Two printed parts are not needed as the same one works for both.) If the rhythms are still a bit much at the fast level, you might try letting your students play whole notes instead of the quarter notes. ABAcus ABAcus features only the notes B and A. While the recorder part is very simple to play, it is a very busy piece and you should probably conduct your students until they pick up the melody. Again, we have provided a guide melody track to assist in your endeavors to keep young players with the audio tracks. Au Clair de la BAG This melody should be familiar to some of you as Au Clair de la Lune. It s also the first piece in this collection with all three notes B, A, and G. I took a jazz approach to the arrangement, which adds a bit of pizazz to this classic piece. Aunt BAGgy s Roadie I remember taking piano lessons as a wee lad and learning to play Go Tell Aunt Rhody early on. This is that piece, with a bit of Appalachia thrown in. (I did grow up in West Virginia, you know.) Note that with this and other traditional tunes, you can sing them as well as play them on recorder. We didn t provide lyrics as we didn t want to distract the players. As a side note, you might mention to your students what a roadie is (the person who lifts all the heavy equipment for traveling musicians). Hot Cross BAGs On Safari This is a very simple arrangement of Hot Cross Buns, complete with various drum sounds and animal effects to enhance our safari experience. Young students may need to be cued when to come in, as the beat on the intro may not be obvious for some. If I Only Had A BAG I grew up during the 80 s, so I enjoyed writing this in the style of rock ballads from that era. Although the notes are still BAG, the melody skips around more so than other pieces in this collection. It s also the only piece in the collection to introduce eighth notes, so this piece may be slightly more difficult than some of the others. Merrily We BAG Our Groceries This is an arrangement of Merrily We Roll Along. The melody is mostly quarter notes, so it should be very playable. The tracks feature fretless bass, plus some very nice jazz guitar, and our drummer has some wonderful jazz/latin rhythms throughout. Starship BAG I picture this vast starship cruising along at faster-thanlight speed, stars and planets whooshing by. Passing through a nebula. Chasing a comet around a red giant. Warping through a black hole and arriving on the far side of the galaxy. You get the idea. Starship BAG begins with space effects. The eight measures of rest at the top of the piece begin with the high synth part that comes in amidst the intro effects. There is nothing too difficult about the melody. It s mostly half notes, dotted half notes, and whole notes. For performance, you might consider having special lighting on this piece, such as black lights with a spacey background using fluorescent paints. Note that we have included a bonus track for this tune that has no melody guide. The entire rhythm section outdid themselves on this one. It features some nice sequenced synth parts, several layers of guitars, and some incredible drumming. The guitar solo is simply exquisite he really wails on this! (You go, Sandy!) Special Thanks... As usual, our wonderful musicians did a superb job on these tracks. They are versatile and very talented guys, and we are thankful to have them on our studio sessions. Here s the skinny on our recording instrumentalists: Dane Clark - Drums Jim Farelly - Recorder Randy Melson - Electric Bass, Fretless Bass John Riggio - Keyboards and sequence programming Sandy Williams - Electric and Acoustic Guitars, plus other stringed things A very special thanks to our good friend and engineer David Price. You always give us 110%. Thanks, bro. Recorded at Aire Born Recording Studios, June Production Credits Cover: Jennifer Vulpas Our Production Team: Nancy Belongia, Paul Jennings, Teresa Jennings, Bob Joyce, Bruce Kling, Betty Petersen, John Riggio, Mark Riggio A Special Student CD Offer If you would like your students to be able to purchase their own copies of BAGaLoPoLis CDs to practice or just to enjoy, we have a special offer for teachers who have already purchased the kit. Student recordings purchased in volume will be offered at a special price of $5.00. Contact Plank Road Publishing, Inc., directly at for more details.

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