Children & Teachers really respond
to the diverse, fun, and catchy music in ABC resources. The music
contains sounds from a wide range of musical styles with witty
arrangements that children love.
Click on the track names below to hear
just a few samples of the music from ABC resources.
Lower Primary
Boing
Song - build rhythm skills by
doing actions and sounds with the 'Boing'. Fun and catchy. A kids
favourite. You can add percussion or play pass the percussion
round a circle.....
Count
to Four - learn to count with
the rhythm with a world music flavour.
The
Woodsman Song - a beautiful song
for children to learn that introduces the 'Explore Materials'
strand on Wood, and uses concepts of Loud and Soft.
Wood -
a sound picture of different sounds to be made from Wood.
Mid Primary
Monday Tuesday
- movement and actions building rhythm
skills using a 2 bar phrase. Looking at the bar as a way of organising
a succession of beats. Compare
it to a week as a way to organise a succession of days. Good for
making performance material.
When
the Drum Plays -sing and learn
rhythm and movement in a roots country style. Line Dancing with
percussion anyone?
Plastic
is Fantastic is a song from the
Explore Materials strand with an ecology theme and in an electro
pop vein. Remember Gary Numan?
Upper Primary
Star
Drummer Worksheet Level 1 Example
- an example track to play in the class to shpw the
children that they must learn the drum sticking patterns ( Right
and Left) and then compose lyrics for a rap, all of which they
will play to the rest of the class in an X factor style performance.
Do
You Wanna Get to Know Who We Are-
a class song where the children
work in bands and write verses about themselves to rap in between
this chorus. There is a gap for them to say the name of their
class - primary 6, primary 7.
Beautiful
World - a beautiiful class song
that can be learnt on chime bars to introduce melody and lyric
writing - with an ecology theme.
Disco
Tommy - a funky track to wake
up and warm up
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