Beyond BAG: Integrated Recorder into Your Classroom Oregon Music Educators Association January, 2016 Rob Amchin, University of Louisville robamchin@gmail.com www.robertamchin.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucxggsi0jewfdzhecjpng-nw Session Description Activities for introducing recorder to beginners plus ideas for integrating recorder in a variety of activities in your classroom throughout the year beyond BAG. Bring your soprano recorder! Echoed patterns Building Bricks Echoing with four beat patterns with given notes Echoing patterns with different pitch sets. (Beginning with BAG or C and A) Combining pitch sets into melodies (Building Bricks) What makes a good beginning and ending building brick? Make a melody and adding improvisations Rain on the green grass Rain on the green grass, rain in the trees Rain on the housetops, but not on me! Play each line on a favorite note. Add improvisations after each line using the rhythm of the line and known notes Rain on the green grass (4-beat improvisation), Rain on the trees (4-beat improvisation) Wake up you sleepy head Amchin Recorder Frolics. Bridgewater, VA: Beatin' Path Publications, 1998. Wake Up You Sleepy Head, Time to Greet the Day. Wake Up you Sleepy Head Sing and Play! Wake Up You Sleepy Head, Time to Greet the Day. Wake Up you Sleepy Head, Sing and Play! Wake Up You Sleepy Head, Wake Up You Sleepy Head...Wake Up you Sleepy Head, Sing and Play! Process for learning Wake up G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G etc, Wake up you sleepy head, Time to greet the day Wake up you sleepy head, Sing and Play. Add one more note or change to the rhythm experience: G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G B A G etc. Wake up you sleepy head, Time to greet the day. Wake up you sleepy head, Sing and Play. Add additional pitches to the piece with the class assistance: G G G G A B G G G G G G G G G A B B A G etc. Wake up you sleepy head, Time to greet the day. Wake up you sleepy head, Sing and Play.
Continue through phrases as above. Accompaniment pattern for Tenor recorder/bass Xylophone: G G D E G Another ostinato for beginning recorder to accompany the melody: D G G When in Danger (Amchin) Perform as a speech piece, then with recorders, and add question and answer improvisations! Recorder as Accompaniment Bim Bom (Yiddish, Trad.)
Visual B B B B B B G G G B B B A A A B B B B B B B A G Explore this song and add a simple dance to the piece. Add the next piece as a Jewish music medley. Rondo Down in the jungle Down in the jungle Living in a tent Better than a townhouse No rent! Adding E (G pentatonic) Way down south where banana s grow Way down way down south where banana s grow A grasshopper stepped on an elephant s toe The elephant said with tears in his eyes, Pick on somebody your own size! Question Answer With a Final note (BAG) Question With a Final note (BAG-E) Question Low C and Low D Cotton Eyed Joe Answer? G Answer? E
High C Tideo (Texas) High D Go Tell Aunt Rhody F natural (or just play the E-D C at the end!) Monkey See, Monkey Do! B Flat and F Natural Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pentatonic Old Brass Wagon Old Brass Wagon
Angel Band (US) There was 1, there were 1, there were 3 little angels. There were 4, there were 5, there were 6 little angles. There were 7, there were 8, there were 9 little angels. 10 little angels in the band! Oh, wasn t that a day on a Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning Oh, wasn t that a day on a Sunday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday morning soon.