Easy intervals and words help to introduce complex rhythms with syncopation.

 

Description

• Grade: First
• Origin: American Jump Rope Song/Rhyme
• Key: E Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: Through Composed
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
  | ti ri ti ri | ta ti ri (ti) | ta ti (ri) ri | ta ti ri (ri) ri |
  | ti ri (ri) ri ti ri (ri) ri | ti ri (ri) ri ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: Mi So
• Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: eighth, sixteenth; running sixteenth notes, syncopation, beginning Orff interval
• Key Words: months of the year, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, cockle shells

 

“Bluebells”