General Music 2019-2020

Rhythm & Instrumental

We’re Gonna Play Today

Use Your Ukes Various

Rhythm & Orff Collections (cont’d)

Grades K-6 So, you have some ukuleles? Great! This book is here to help you introduce this fun and versatile instrument to your music class. It will walk you through how to teach the first ukulele lesson, where to go next, and how to gradually expand your students’ uke skills. Best of all, every lesson idea comes from a music teacher who tried it with their own young musicians first. Use those ukes well, with these great ideas that really work! Ukulele LO751066H $19.95

Deborah Imiolo Grades PK-3 Let your students improvise and explore! This carefully crafted, classroom-tested collection of original compositions introduces identification, classification, and basic techniques for barred percussion. Included learning goals, visual aids, and PowerPoint files make this resource both practical and engaging. Book/CD-ROM LO751006H $19.95

Rockin’ the Radio Mari Schay

Grades 4-9 Rock out to songs like Katy Perry’s Roar , The Beatles’ She Loves You , and Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ with age-appropriate, skill-building arrangements for Orff and classroom percussion. The Enhanced CD includes full performance demos, as well as printable/projectable parts. Director’s Kit w/CD AL00-44551 $29.99 Shape Beats for Kids Carman

Ukulele

Recorder Collections

Pop Songs for Kids The Strum & Sing series provides a pared-down approach to learning your favorite songs – just the lyrics, chord symbols, and ukulele chord diagrams are included for easy reading. This volume features 30 songs that kids love from Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, and other pop stars. Ukulele Jukebox Tom Anderson Grades 4-8 Drop in a nickel for hours of music- making fun! From one chord and a downstroke strum to switching from chord-to-chord using a pop shuffle, your students will explore the exciting world of playing the ukulele. Chord frames, pictures of finger placement, and notation are used throughout the song collection in a step-by-step, HL00284415 $14.99

Shape Beats are a simple and fun way to learn how to play drums. Because many beginning students are still in the early stages of development and may not be able to comprehend standard drum notation, the book utilizes shapes – an instantly recog- nizable notational vehicle – to teach students basic drum beats. Sing, Drum, Play, and Strum Mari Schay Grades 3-6 Mari’s research-based and engaging approach to music education will bring the joy and value of folk songs to your students. AL00-43065 $15.99

BAG Warm-ups & Workouts Riggio & Jennings

Each note gets a workout as do the various combinations in a logical progression. Other workouts deal with important concepts such as breath control, tone production, simple articulation, and hand position. Teacher’s Manual/CD/Repro 19839800 $24.95 Dojo Duets Teresa & Paul Jennings

Teacher’s Manual

Teacher’s Book

Duets are a great teaching tool! These 7 new duets are correlated with any beginning method. The first is a bit easier than the easiest Recorder Karate tune, and the difficulty increases from song to song. Each duet can be played unaccompanied, with a piano accompaniment available online, or

Teacher’s Manual w/Repro LO751016H $34.95 That’s So Orff! Appealing new lessons for the elemen- tary music classroom incorporating improvisation, movement, and props. The engaging, easy-to-use activities are designed for experienced music teachers and novices alike. Complete, delightful lessons with a step-by-step process make the pieces accessible for everyone and give students the chance to explore music through the Orff process. Teacher’s Manual w/CD AL00-42360 $24.99 Viva Marimba Doug Edwards Grades 4-8 Join the “fiesta”! Explore the spirited music of Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, and Bolivia with these festive arrangements of popular traditional tunes. Perfect for your upper-elementary and middle-school classrooms and marimba ensembles, the fiery scores are sure to keep your students engaged and your audiences begging for more! Performance tracks and reproducible lead sheets for each piece are available on the included CD. Teacher’s Manual LO751014H $19.95

sequential fashion for building instrument-playing knowledge. Suggested strums are demonstrated with helpful audio examples. You also receive digital access to performance/accompaniment audio recordings plus PDFs of singer and instrument parts for projection and reproducible options. Teacher’s Manual HL00194942 $29.99 Ukuleles on Board! Gross & Haines Grades 2-5

with the CD included in the kit. Teacher’s Manual/CD/Repro 22710200 $24.95

Dojo Duets 2 Teresa Jennings

As with the original Dojo Duets, the pieces become progressively more difficult. Each duet can be played unaccompanied, with a playable piano part available online, or with the CD. Parts 1 and 2 in each duet are of similar difficulty, so you can choose to have the students switch parts if you like. Director’s Kit w/CD PRPDD716 $24.95 Dojo Warmups and Workouts Teresa Jennings This collection of short, interesting warm-ups and technique builders will make the journey through the notes and other musical challenges found in most methods an enjoyable one. This unique set of 14 progres- sive warm-ups and workouts is designed to help you warm up for tunes in Recorder Karate and tunes from many other methods. Director’s Kit w/CD PRPDW216 $24.95

Get on board! Using ukuleles in an elementary general music class can open new experiences for your students. These fun, acces- sible instruments encourage singing while promoting confidence and musical independence. Ukuleles also provide an additional way for you to observe student progress and

assess musical understanding. Ukuleles on Board! is a collec- tion of sequential lessons that illustrate how teachers can use ukuleles along with other common classroom resources to create engaging, robust musical activities for students. In addition to being easy to learn and fun, the folk songs used throughout the book provide students with cultural and historical connections. The activities and concepts found in Ukuleles on Board! are based on the National Standards for Music Education. Teacher’s Manual HL00261481 $39.99

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