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Intermediate syncopation, pentatonic scale, and
multiple tied notes to promote breath support.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ta/a/_|_a/a/a ta | syncopation, (_=tie), | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/a/a (ta) |
| ta ta ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/a | syncopation, | ta ta ta/a | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do\La (m3), So/Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio (I, G), So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, G), La/Do (m3), Mi\So (M6)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, tied notes, syncopation, tonic arpeggios, D.C. al Fine, Fine, refrain/verse/refrain, two double barlines
- Key Words: USA history, African American history, sacred, chariot wheel, working, Promised Land, shake her hand, hypocrite, street, teeth, lie; contractions: gonna (going to), ain’t (is not); abbreviations: partic’lar (particular), ’bout (about), shakin’ (shaking); Southern US dialect: yonder (a place down the way), wanta (want to), de (the)
- Recorder: intermediate: tonic arpeggios, long tied notes promote breath support
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| Now let me fly, Now let me fly, Now let me fly way up high, Way in the middle of the air. |
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| 1. | Way down yonder in the middle of the field, See me working at the chariot wheel. Not so partic’lar ’bout working at the wheel, But I just want to see how the char’iot feels. |
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I got a mother in the Promise Land, Ain’t gonna stop till I shake her hand. Not so partic’lar ’bout shakin’ her hand, But I just wanta get up in de Promise Land. |
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| 3. | Meet that hypocrite on the street First thing he does is show his teeth. Next thing he does is to tell a lie And the best thing to do is to pass him by. |
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