• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: USA – African American Clapping Song
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: AAaA
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) | ti ti (ta) |
• Pitches: beginners: so la ti do
• Intervals: beginners: ascending Perfect Fourth (P4) so/do
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; beamed eighth notes, pickup beat, stepping up the staff from the dominant (5, so) to the tonic (1, do), descending perfect fourth Do\So, clapping a steady beat with a partner hand jive – NOTE: transfer vocal reading skills to fine motor skills on keyboard and recorder
• Key Words: USA history, African American History, rhyming words: mack/black/back, cents/fence, high/sky, July/lie; clapping song, hand jive, dressed, silver, buttons, mother, fifty, cows, jumped, 4th of July; York Alabama Version: river, cross, paid, five, dollars, grey horse, pull, swapped, holler/dollar, spend, grass, grow/hoe, chop/shop. money/honey, shop, bees, eat, meat, gnaw, bone, good-bye; contractions: couldn’t (could not), wouldn’t (would not), I’m (I am)
• Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together
• Recorder: beginners: color coded, excellent addition to the Beginning Recorder Songs, after song number one. Stepping up from G to C.

* Includes hand jive directions.

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