Improvising and Composing with Familiar Rhythms, Drums, and Barred Instruments Introduction and Lesson 1 There are four lessons in this series. Students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16-beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopation, and quarter rests. They will compose and perform melodies using Dorian mode, accompany themselves using a tonic…

Improvising and Composing with Familiar Rhythms, Drums, and Barred Instruments Introduction and Lesson 1 There are four lessons in this series. Students will identify, compose, read, and perform 16-beat rhythms containing quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopation, and quarter rests. They will compose and perform melodies using Dorian mode, accompany themselves using a tonic…

Level II Assignment: Moving bordun setting for a Hexatonic or diatonic melody. Download the lesson here: Moving Bordun Assignment

Level II Assignment: Functional harmony setting, I-V. Download the lesson here: Functional Harmony I-V Assignment

Chord or Level bordun setting for pentatonic melodies. Download the lesson here: Chord or Level Bordun Assignment

Level I Composition Broken or Arpeggiated bordun setting for pentatonic melodies Download the lesson here: Broken or Arpeggiated Bordun Assignment

I Heard the Angels Singing–Southern Spiritual Lesson Objective: Melodic improvisation with syncopation Download the lesson here: I Heard the Angels Singing

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In this episode of Instrument Repair Hospital, “Dr. Lissa” demonstrates her method for repairing or replacing the wood of a resonator box that has been dropped or otherwise damaged. Take good care of your Studio 49 Orff Instruments for their long lasting health and great sound! Materials: – Hardwood 1/2″ thick – Wood glue – Sandpaper –…

In this episode of Instrument Repair Hospital, “Dr. Lissa” shows us how to replace broken nails and tubing on barred instruments. Tubing and nails only last 10-12 years before the rubber begins to rot and needs to be replaced. Take good care of your Studio 49 Orff Instruments for their long lasting health and great sound! Be…

Exploring Our Roots, Expanding Our Future: Lesson 4 Since most of the elements in this particular part of the lesson have already been introduced, most of the time will be devoted to students constructing possibilities for the final form of the piece. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 4 Video Demonstration:

Exploring Our Roots, Expanding Our Future, Lesson 3 Speech will provide the rhythmic material for the compositions of unpitched percussion that will accompany the barred instrument piece learned in Lesson 2. Download the lesson here: Roots Lesson 3 Video Demonstration: