Simple Poem for Introducing Percussion with Sticks
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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