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Simple Poem for Introducing Percussion with Sticks

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Steve Elmore | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas

This activity introduces students to the ideas of “timbre;” (sound qualities produced by different instruments), and volume. The teacher and students use sticks as percussion instruments, rubbing them together and hitting them against each other to make different sounds. The sounds are made as they recite the poem, “Two little sausages frying in a pan / One goes ‘pop,’ and the other goes ‘BAM!’;”

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Alright, this is an easy activity to do, especially, I do this at the beginning of the year, and actually threw out the year. But, especially at the beginning because it’s pretty low-key. But it works on several different musical things. One is tambour, I’m just using sticks. Course these ready-made sticks, you could just use sticks that you find on the ground. But this uses a, tambour is the different sounds you get from an instrument it’s what makes a trumpet say, sound different than a flute. For sticks you’ve got a rubbing sound, and different types of taps. Also, volume because it’ll there’s a soft component, and a loud component it just goes like this, two little sausages frying in a pan, one goes pop, and the other goes BAM! So, I’ll do that several times. I don’t know four or five times. The kids will usually just join me on their own, as I get it sometimes they leave it on the floor, on their hand. Just be careful don’t let them hit their fingers because they’ll be crying after that. Make sure they’re out here on the ends of the sticks, but it’s an easy way to get kids playing, without really a steady beat or anything. But you still get soft, loud, and the different sounds from the sticks. And get, away to get them involved.

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