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Advanced syncopation and a rare double dotted quarter note while practicing ascending and descending tonic arpeggios.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA – Traditional
- Key: D Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: staves: AaBA – song: AB verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/ | syncopation, | ta ta ta/a | ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ta | syncopation, | ta ta ta// ri | syncopation (double dotted quarter note)
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Do
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/La, La/Do8, Do8\So\Mi, descending tonic arpeggio, So\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, double dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; verse/refrain, tonic arpeggios, syncopation
- Key Words: perpetual, always happening, repetitive activities, all day long, heart, beating, singing, breathing, spider, weaving, clock, ticking, rain, falling, Sunday, Monday; hyphenated: a-beating, a-breathing, a-ticking, a-clicking, a-weaving, a-singing
| 1. | Heart keeps a-beating all day long, Beating and repeating all day long. |
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| All day long, all day long, and I keep a-singing all day long. |
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I keep a-breathing all day long, Spider keeps a-weaving all day long. |
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| 3. | Clock keeps a-ticking all day long, Ticking and a-clicking all day long. |
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| 4. | Rain falls on Sunday all day long, Sun again on Monday all day long. |
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