One-A-Day Warm-Ups for Orff Instruments

Description

by Linda Forrest.

Playing instruments is one of the most favorite music classroom activities. Just as you would take time to warm up your voice, these simple traditional songs and patterns give students a chance to warm up their playing skills by investing 5-10 minutes each class period and by focusing on posture, technique and style. By using the Sing-Along Guide, you can easily choose from the 30 warm-ups (in specific keys, chord progressions and/or patterns) which you choose to develop and utilize as accompaniments to the 25 traditional songs (also included). Students who struggle with beat will greatly improve as they begin with simple one-chord patterns where they learn to feel and hear the pulse and gradually progress to adding body percussion, additional parts and then instruments.

Sing-Along Songs Included:

• Rain, Rain
• It’s Raining
• Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
• Hot Cross Buns
• Hop Old Squirrel
• The Closet Key
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Rocky Mountain
• Button, You Must Wander
• Riding in the Buggy
• Lil’ Liza Jane
• Jingle at the Window
• Land of the Silver Birch
• Scotland’s Burning
• Are You Sleeping?
• Mister Rabbit
• Old MacDonald
• Dance Josey
• Turn the Glasses Over
• My Lord, What a Morning
• Down By the Station
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Sarasponda
• Skip to My Lou
• Old Joe Clark