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Syncopated rhythms on the last quarter of the second and fourth beats, experiencing the interval So\Re, ending two phrases on a leading tone (Re), and extended phrases promoting breath support.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: staves: ABabCc – phrases: AaBb – song: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ta ta |syncopation, | ta/a/a ta |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a/a | ta ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ti ti ta | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do\So, Mi\Do, Do/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So, So\Re
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, quarter beat syncopation, two double bars, tonic arpeggio, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA geography, cowboy song, campfire song, cowboy life, herding cows, cowboy words, husky, brute, cattle chute, coral, branded, snoot, chuck (food), beans, meat, wrangler, britches, grease your gills; contractions: ain’t (is not), there’s (there is), wrangler’s (wrangler is); abbreviation: scourin’ (scouring)
| 1. | That big husky brute from the cattle chute, Press along to the big coral, He should be branded on the snoot, Press along to the big coral. |
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| Press along cowboy, press along with a cowboy yell, Press along cowboy, press along to the big coral. |
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The chuck we get ain’t fit to eat, Press along to the big coral, There’s rocks in the beans and sand in the meat, Press along to the big coral. |
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| 3. | The wrangler’s out a scourin’ the hills, Press along to the big coral, So hop in your britches and grease up your gills, Press along to the big coral, |
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