WHITE BELT DOJO Music For Beginning Recorder Players Creatively Arranged by Paul Jennings & John Riggio We d like to thank the following people for helping us get this collection into shape: Recording Engineers: David Price, Ben Vawter Recording Performers: Rhythm Dane Clark (drums), Steve Dokken (bass), Steve Hanna (percussion), Steve Potts (keyboards), Sandy Williams (guitars); Winds Jim Farrelly (woodwinds), Rick Graef (horn), Loy Hetrick (trombone), Greg Imboden (recorders, woodwinds), Anthony Kniffen (tuba), Kent Leslie (horn), Jared Rodin (bass trombone), John Rommel (trumpet), Joey Tartell (trumpet); Strings Davis Brooks (violin), Susan Chan (viola), Pam Close (violin), Kara Day (violin), Marjie Hanna (cello), Dennis McCafferty (cello), Phil Palermo (violin), Debbie Rodin (violin), Mike Strauss (viola), Pam Williams (violin) Our Production Team: Nancy Belongia, Katie Ebel, Julie Gaulke, Sean Gill, Karl Hitzemann, Paul Jennings, Teresa Jennings, Bruce Kling, John Riggio, Candy Schill, Mark Schroeter, Dan Thieman, Chris Young Music fonts were created exclusively for Plank Road Publishing by Mark Riggio and based on the engraving artistry of Bruce Kling. WB-116 WB-111 WB-115 WB-117 WB-119 Products Available For WHITE BELT DOJO PERFORMANCE KIT - Teacher s Handbook/CD Teacher s Handbook with Reproducible Student Parts Performance/Accompaniment CD DOWNLOADABLE KIT - Teacher s Handbook/Recording Convenience Combo Kit (Print and Downloadable Kit)
WHITE BELT DOJO 2 Table of Contents CD ALT CD FULL FULL TRK Thunder Hawk...Paul Jennings Recorder Reproducible Student Part...3 Long version... 1 2 Short version... 3 ACcelerate...John Riggio Recorder Reproducible Student Part... 5 6 Bumblebee Bop...Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Paul Jennings Recorder Reproducible Student Part...5 Long version... 7 8 Short version... 9 0 Chillaxin...John Riggio Recorder Reproducible Student Part...6 Long version... - = Short version... q w Flutter By, Butterfly...Paul Jennings Recorder Reproducible Student Part...7 Long version... e r Short version... t y Luna Kahuna...arr. Paul Jennings & John Riggio Recorder Reproducible Student Part...8 Slower version... u i Faster version... o p Lightspeed Caterpillar...Paul Jennings & John Riggio Recorder Reproducible Student Part...9 Long version... [ ] Short version... \ a Renaissance Circle Dance...Claude Gervaise, arr. Paul Jennings Recorder Reproducible Student Part...10 Percussion Reproducible Student Part...10 Long version... s d Short version... f g Juba Jump...adapted/arr. Paul Jennings & John Riggio Recorder Reproducible Student Part...11 Long version... h j Short version... k l Teaching Notes for WHITE BELT DOJO...12 Fingering Chart...13 CD Information...1 Survey...15 An Important Notice About Your Rights To Duplicate With the purchase of this product, you (one teacher or director) may legally duplicate the reproducible players pages for use with your players, no matter how many players you have, even if you work with more than one school or with more than one congregation. Permission to duplicate and/or share the music or recording with anyone else is not granted and is considered a copyright infringement. Permission is granted to duplicate the accompanying recording for back-up purposes only. Please don t teach your players 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 players. We will always fight for your rights to better pay and working conditions, and as one of the few publishers of children s music, 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.
AB CD Full Performance - tracks 1 & 3; Accompaniment only - tracks 2 & Thunder Hawk driving rock (Î=96) Å 5 drums & c. set-up (repeat, optional) f Paul Jennings œ œ œ œ œ œ Å 9 & œ œ œ œ œ œ Å 13 & œ œ œ œ œ Œ Œ œ Å 17 Å 21 & œ œ œ œ œ œ. œ Œ Ó 3
AC CD Full Performance - track 5; Accompaniment only - track 6 ACcelerate & c house (Î=13) Å 5 Ó Ó John Riggio f Å 9 & Ó Ó Ó Å 13 & Ó Ó Ó Å 17 & Ó Ó Å 21 & Ó Ó ı 25 & Ó Ó Ó ı 29 ^ & Ó Ó Ó œ Œ Ó
B CD Full Performance - tracks 7 & 9; Accompaniment only - tracks 8 & 10 Bumblebee Bop energetic bop-style swing (Î=160) Å 5 drums & c. Ó set-up (repeat, optional) f Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Paul Jennings Ó Ó Ó Å 9 & Ó Ó Å 13 & œ Œ œ œ œ Œ œ œ œ Œ œ œ Å 17 & Ó Å 21 & œ Œ Œ œ œ Œ Ó. ı 25 & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ı 29 & œ Œ Ó œ Œ Ó œ Œ Ó 5
GAB CD Full Performance - tracks 11 & 13; Accompaniment only - tracks 12 & 1 Chillaxin drums set-up & c rock (Î=80) John Riggio Å 5 (repeat, optional) &. f Å 9 & Å 13 Å 17 & œ œ œ œ w œ œ œ œ w. 6
GAB CD Full Performance - tracks 15 & 17; Accompaniment only - tracks 16 & 18 Flutter By, Butterfly floating, gently (Î=66) Å 5 &. œ (repeat, optional) F. œ œ œ. Paul Jennings Å 9 & œ œ.. Å 13 & œ. œ œ œ œ Å 17 & œ œ.? &... rit. U 7
GAB CD Full Performance - tracks 19 & 21; Accompaniment only - tracks 20 & 22 Luna Kahuna (Au Clair de la Lune) drums set-up & c '60s surf style (Î=156 and 172) Traditional arr. Paul Jennings & John Riggio Å 5 &. f w w Å 13 & w w & w w Å 19 & w w. 8
GAB CD Full Performance - tracks 23 & 25; Accompaniment only - tracks 2 & 26 Lightspeed Caterpillar roller coaster sfx & c power rock (Î=150) Paul Jennings & John Riggio Å 5 (repeat, optional) &. f Å 9 & w w Å 13 & Å 17 & w w Å 21 & ı 25 & w w ı 29 & ı 33 ı 37 & w w. roller coaster sfx 9
GABC CD Full Performance - tracks 27 & 29; Accompaniment only - tracks 28 & 30 Renaissance Circle Dance (Bransle de Champagne) recorder & stately (Î=92) c Claude Gervaise arr. Paul Jennings percussion (optional) / c hand drum F œ Œ œ œ Ó Œ finger cymbals rec. & Å 5. (repeat, optional) œ œ œ œ F œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ perc. /. (repeat, optional) œ Œ œ œ Ó Œ rec. Å 9 & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ø. perc. / œ œ œ Œ Ó Œ. 10
GABC CD Full Performance - tracks 31 & 33; Accompaniment only - tracks 32 & 3 Juba Jump & c tribal (Î=88) adapted/arr. by Paul Jennings & John Riggio Å 5 (repeat, optional) &. œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ f? Å 9 & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ. œ œ œ Œ 11
We created this collection of new, easy songs to energize beginning players who want to play tunes that sound good to their ears. Our great accompaniment tracks will make those early weeks of recorder lots more fun. And if you are using a reward system with your recorder method, like Recorder Karate, this will give you a way to spend more time on easier tunes as your players gain more confidence. Thunder Hawk Bold and brassy, this rockin tune might be the theme to an adventure series, or the music behind a big scene. It features the notes B and A, and the melody is just repetitive enough to make it the easiest song in the collection. As with many tunes in the collection, we provide four tracks: full performance, long and short; and accompaniment only, long and short. The short versions are handy if you are testing for belts or other rewards. Rock on! ACcelerate If you are one of the many teachers who like to start recorder classes with A and C, this is the tune for you. It s a lean modern rock in style, and it is simple and quite repetitive, though the tracks make it interesting for the players every time. In this case, the tune is short enough that we have just one length for the tune in the recordings provided. Bumblebee Bop Even though this tune only features the note B, we have made it the third tune in the collection because it requires more rhythm reading skills including a nice mix of quarter notes, half notes, and rests. The song is a big band swing version of Rimsky-Korsakov s famous Flight Of The Bumblebee. It is available here in two lengths, including a short version for testing if you so desire. Chillaxin The title says it all for this laid back rock tune. It is a perfect first tune to feature B, A, and G. Most of the melody is stepwise half notes, only transitioning to quarter notes at the end of the song. There are two versions of this one, one longer and a short one for optional testing. Flutter By, Butterfly This lovely ballad in 3/ meter is a great way to work on legato playing and breath control. Start by playing two measures in a breath, then move on to four bar phrasing, being sure that the last note is held full value. 12 The recording features our great rhythm section plus a rich string section. For the second time through the song, our solo violinist, the amazing Phil Palermo, plays a beautiful high obbligato solo over the song. Again, there are two versions of the song, one longer, and one shorter for testing or shorter performances. Luna Kahuna Many of you have known and used the old French folk song Au Clair de la Lune with your recorder classes, but you ve never heard it like this! John has set it cleverly as a surf rock style tune, and it s lots of fun for your young players. He has definitely put new life in this favorite old BAG tune. While there are two different sets of recordings for the tune, in this case, one version is just a bit faster than the other. As your players get the hang of it, they can move from one to the other. Both are short enough to use for testing. Lightspeed Caterpillar John and Paul have built a cool roller coaster of a tune, complete with sound effects. Based on BAG, this fun-loving rock tune spends much of its melodic time going up and down like the aforementioned coaster, and it s built completely out of half notes and whole notes. As with many of the tunes, there are two versions, long and short, but for performances, we highly recommend the longer version as the arrangement builds to an exciting ending, and that s harder to accomplish with the shorter one. Feel free to let your kids whoop it up at the end with the coaster riders on the recording. Renaissance Circle Dance For the first addition of the note C to BAG thus far learned, Paul has done a nice setting of Gervaise s Bransle de Champagne, a stately circle dance. For the recording, we have assembled a fine period ensemble featuring lute and strings. There are both long and short recordings for your convenience. Also included are optional percussion parts: one for hand drum, and one for finger cymbals. Feel free to add your own ideas for other percussion instruments. Juba Jump Our last song is an infectious world beat rock setting adapted from the folk song Juba. Most of the tune is spent moving through A, B, and C, just settling on G at the end. It s a great song to use for classes that start with A and C to move toward the new tones. Again, we provide longer and shorter recordings to give you options.
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Here is a track sheet for your compact disc. WHITE BELT DOJO 1 Thunder Hawk (long version) (Full Performance)...1:39 2 Thunder Hawk (long version) (Accompaniment only)...1:39 3 Thunder Hawk (short version) (Full Performance)...:59 Thunder Hawk (short version) (Accompaniment only)...:59 5 ACcelerate (Full Performance)...1:03 6 ACcelerate (Accompaniment only)...1:03 7 Bumblebee Bop (long version) (Full Performance)...1:21 8 Bumblebee Bop (long version) (Accompaniment only)...1:21 9 Bumblebee Bop (short version) (Full Performance)...:51 0 Bumblebee Bop (short version) (Accompaniment only)...:51 - Chillaxin (long version) (Full Performance)...1:30 = Chillaxin (long version) (Accompaniment only)...1:30 q Chillaxin (short version) (Full Performance)...:5 w Chillaxin (short version) (Accompaniment only)...:5 e Flutter By, Butterfly (long version) (Full Performance)...1:53 r Flutter By, Butterfly (long version) (Accompaniment only)...1:53 t Flutter By, Butterfly (short version) (Full Performance)...1:0 y Flutter By, Butterfly (short version) (Accompaniment only)...1:0 u Luna Kahuna (slower version) (Full Performance)...1:07 i Luna Kahuna (slower version) (Accompaniment only)...1:07 o Luna Kahuna (faster version) (Full Performance)...1:01 p Luna Kahuna (faster version) (Accompaniment only)...1:01 [ Lightspeed Caterpillar (long version) (Full Performance)...1:59 ] Lightspeed Caterpillar (long version) (Accompaniment only)...1:59 \ Lightspeed Caterpillar (short version) (Full Performance)...1:07 a Lightspeed Caterpillar (short version) (Accompaniment only)...1:07 s Renaissance Circle Dance (long version) (Full Performance)...:55 d Renaissance Circle Dance (long version) (Accompaniment only)...:55 f Renaissance Circle Dance (short version) (Full Performance)...:35 g Renaissance Circle Dance (short version) (Accompaniment only)..:35 h Juba Jump (long version) (Full Performance)...:58 j Juba Jump (long version) (Accompaniment only)...:58 k Juba Jump (short version) (Full Performance)...:35 l Juba Jump (short version) (Accompaniment only)...:35 If you want to keep this information with your CD, simply photocopy this page and then cut out the copied track sheet. k Folded in half, it fits nicely into the back of your CD Safety Sleeve TM Binder Page.
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You can never have too much recorder music! Expand your students repertoire with these Downloadable Recorder Singles B A DANCING ZOMBIE by Paul Jennings For this piece, we think we have caught the flavor of a familiar tune that students might know, and we created a new, tongue-in-cheek version that they will love to play, while they only need to know B and A to join in. Aside from learning a second note, this song also discusses playing staccato and syncopation. (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 22, No. 1) B A MARCHING MONSTER by Veektor BeanzAndFrankzenstein arr. Paul Jennings With this recorder piece, we are transported into a cool, old black-and-white monster movie, complete with theremin and eerie sound effects. The recorder players only need to play B and A, but they have plenty to do. There s even an opportunity for your young monsters to march! Yes, mahster... have a great time with this horrifying new work! (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 20, No. 1) B A BLACK BELT by Paul Jennings This versatile piece offers you a great way to introduce your beginning players to the notes B and A. In addition, there is a second soprano recorder part that can be used with more advanced students. And as its name suggests, it would be a great addition to your Recorder Karate program! (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 19, No. 1) FRODO S BAG by M.C. Handel Your beginning recorder players will think that they are playing very cool, special music with this Middle Earth Rock original that takes B, A, and G to a mystical and imaginative faraway place. Students who are familiar with a certain popular movie and book will love it all the more. (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 13, No. 1) AN OLDE ENGLISH CAROL arr. M.C. Handel Using the notes G, A, B, and C, this recorder tune is an old English carol (really) from the 18th century. It s original title is Gloucestershire Wassail. (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 12, No. 2) ENTRANCE OF THE DRAGON RIDERS by Paul Jennings Make a powerful statement with this piece that will work all year long with beginning recorder students, older students, and even beginning alto recorder players. They ll enjoy this ceremonial march and probably develop their own version of the story behind this song that uses the notes G, A, and B for beginners, and adds low E for more of a challenge. (from RECORDER CLASSROOM Vol. 1, No. 1) ECHO CAROL arr. Paul Jennings This old carol, also known as While By My Sheep, is arranged for two soprano recorders and one optional alto recorder, but it can be played by just your beginning recorder students. The orchestral arrangement is full of contrasts which are fun for your students, too. Notes used: G, A, B, and C. (from RECORDER CLASSROOM Vol. 1, No. 2) CHESTER by William Billings arr. Paul Jennings Our arrangement of this William Billings classic begins with a rich hymn-like setting that evolves into a march. The first soprano part requires the full C scale. The second soprano part requires only G, A, B, and C, and can be played by itself with the tracks, or with the other recorder parts. The optional alto recorder part is ideal for students just learning to play that instrument. (from MUSIC K-8 Vol. 21, No. 5) information and sound clips are available on our web site: MusicK8.com