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>>>We Went over 70,000 downloads, so the next goal is to get to 100,000. (Maybe even by the end of the year? < hope, hope >) When I was first invited to this webpage, I never thought it was possible, but now I have to admit that I am genuinely hopeful.
>>>Three songs have gone over 1,000 downloads now. I can't wait to find material that is at least as useful. Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.
>>>Finally got the Sol-Feg files uploaded. I would love to get feedback on these.
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Product Number: 1012000368 Series: Lead Sheet Pages: 1
Description: This is a song I wrote for Black History Month. There are three separate pages, one with just the melody, one with a harmony above and one with a harmony below. If there is any demand, I may eventually put out a choral style arrangement, but we usually put this together really fast and this format seems to work for my students. Let me know what you need and I'll see what I can do. Please let this song out to play as much as you can though. My students tell me that more people need to hear it!
Product Number: 1012000400 Series: Guitar Ensemble Pages: 2
Description: Beginning Guitar Ensemble piece. Separate pages with and without shorthand notation.
Product Number: 1012000386 Series: Guitar Ensemble Pages: 1
Description: The Mariachi groups in the area have a tune called Mariachi Loco. I put this together so my guitar ensembles would have something a little crazy and fun to play as well.
Product Number: 1012000436 Series: String Method Pages: 1
Description: Another five note tune, written in five keys for all four strings. The best part, no dumbed down rhythms! I can't understand why anyone who writes a method book would dumb down a rhythm that students have been singing practically all of their lives. Don't they understand the kind of cognitive dissonance that creates?
Description: This is another one page song sheet where all of the parts are on the same page. Mix it and match it in as many different ways as you can. The more ways you lay it, the more your students will practice it so they are ready.
Product Number: 1012004135 Series: Guitar Ensemble Pages: 2
Description: This is a score I put together for the Fifth grade combined ensemble. Every time we play a concert, we play two or three songs as a combined ensemble. This combines the voices of all of the ensembles, allows the beginning players a chance to play with the advanced ones, and incidentally keeps audiences from walking out in the middle of a concert as soon as their student has performed! (Hint - Hint)
Product Number: 1012004281 Series: String Ensemble Pages: 12
Description: This is a mix and match piece for string ensemble. There is no score, just three parts that can be played by any combination of string instruments. If you need additional parts or parts for additional instruments, just contact me and I will do what I can.
Description: Three part mix and match with no score. Great opportunity for everyone to play the melody. All three parts can be played by everybody so everybody gets a chance to shine, at least in class.
Product Number: 1012000392 Series: Guitar Ensemble Pages: 1
Description: What flies through the air and gives you warts when it kisses you? MISSLE TOADS! Guitar ensemble piece based on a really bad (but original) joke.
Product Number: 1012004141 Series: Guitar Solo Pages: 2
Description: This is a grade two guitar solo, with and without shorthand notation. The song is basically in two voices and the melody travels from the top to the bottom. The tempo is three quarter time and there is a little bit of syncopation, the "salsa of music!"
Description: Three part mix and match with no score for beginning strings. Play it in as many different ways as you possibly can. This is an excellent opportunity for Cellos to play the melody. They may never get a chance again after they leave your class!
Product Number: 1013000060 Series: Children's Pages: 1
Description: This is a very silly song about a child with a monster living in a closet! There is nothing scary in here and when you get to the end of the song, it may just begin to make sense to you! This is just a lead sheet, or song sheet with the melody line and chords. If you need anything more complicated than that give me a shout and I will see what I can do.
Product Number: 1012004045 Series: Guitar Ensemble Pages: 2
Description: When I was young, we used to go to the movies in the afternoon. They would run a few cartoons and some previews and then we would settle in for the real reason we came there; The Monster Movies. Hopefully your players will find this as fulfilling as mine will? Bwah-Ha-Ha-Ha!!!
Product Number: 1012000365 Series: Lead Sheet Pages: 2
Description: Another very silly song. There are two pages here. One is an optional harmony. I may eventually put them together but this worked best for me when I was presenting the song to a young group of students who insisted on singing this to their parents. (They were not content with letting me sing it to them, they wanted to learn it for some reason) I can change the key if you want me to. This is particularly effective around Halloween, but we did it for a Winter Concert and no one seemed to mind!
Product Number: 1012000516 Series: Easy Music For String Pages: 1
Description: This is a novelty tune for strings and or choir. I wrote it to have fun with and we have more fun every time we do it. I also add to the chart as we use it, so if you have suggestions, please send them on.
Product Number: 1012004282 Series: Resource Pages: 1
Description: This was a system I came up with in college when I got frustrated with the cognitive dissonance built into Sol-Feg. Not only are the Phonetic Symbols in the second scale degree reversed chromatically, (Re and Ra) there is no system designed to handle double flats and sharps. This can be especially problematic when dealing with any scale with more than five accidentals since the half steps built into the normal diatonic scale have to be misrepresented in order to use fixed Do. This system works with either fixed or movable chromatic syllables and as far as I have been able to determine, has no cognitive dissonance, is very easy to assimilate, and eliminates some of the unintentional punning that goes along with using Sol-Feg. I have never used this in my active teaching, but have taught it to a group of college students with success. If you spot any ways in which this can be improved, please let me know. If you spot any other unintentional puns, please let me know about that as well. If you find this useful, I would love to hear about that as well. Enjoy!
Product Number: 1012004139 Series: Lead Sheet Pages: 2
Description: The tune is something that one of my students came up with for another song. The lyrics are basically what I thought the tune really sounded like. I ended up performing this myself one evening and was pleasantly surprised by the reaction.
Product Number: 1012000504 Series: Lead Sheet Pages: 1
Description: I wrote this for a friend who was bemoaning the fact that many of his friends looked upon God as a legend or myth. I told her to sing it when she got really frustrated. Hope it helped!
Description: Just a short tune that I wrote out on a dare. My recorder class really liked it so we started playing it. I liked it so I kept it around. Hopefully, you will like it too.
