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Lessons: Speech, Body Percussion & Untuned Percussion

Posted March 4, 2021byRoger Sams & Michael Vasquez

Speech, Body Percussion, and Untuned Percussion Lessons Perfect for RIGHT NOW

In 2017 Roger Sams co-authored Percussive Play: Building Rhythmic Skills Through Partwork, Poetry, and Movement with Michael Vasquez. This book features the active music making that teachers are most using in many circumstances right now: speech, body percussion and untuned percussion.

We’re delighted to share two lessons from that collection with you as a free gift. If you find these lessons helpful you may wish to consider purchasing Percussive Play through the publisher, Music Is Elementary, or from your favorite music education retailer. This book comes with free digital downloads of the electronic visuals, which will support your best teaching if you’re teaching in person, online, or hybrid.

Click here to download the lesson plans Play the Woodblock and How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck?

Excerpt from Percussive Play. Copyright © 2018 by MIE Publications. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Roger Sams & Michael Vasquez

Percussive Play is the first supplement to the Purposeful Pathways core materials, and thus, utilizes the Purposeful Pathways Model, integrating Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and eurhythmics. It contains ten active music making lessons for the elementary music classroom. Electronic Visuals are available for this book in three formats: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook™, and Promethean ActivInspire. The printable manipulatives are available as PDF files. The electronic visuals and printable manipulatives are available to you for free with the purchase of this book.

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