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Cup Game Pattern
First part:
Language is: "clap clap bumblebee,
clap, up, down" ("ta, ta, titi, ta / ta, ta, ta, rest")
Beat 1: clap (ta)
Beat 2: clap (ta)
Beat 3: tap the top of
the cup twice (titi)
Beat 4: tap the top of the cup once (ta)
Beat 5: clap (ta)
Beat 6: raise the cup a few inches
into the air (ta)
Beat 7: place the cup down again (ta)
Beat 8: rest
Second part:
Language is: "Clap, Grab,
Pop, Down, Switch, SLAP, Pass"
("ta, ta, ta, ta / ta, ta, ta, rest")
Beat 1: clap
Beat 2: grasp the cup from the
left with the right hand
Beat 3: "pop" the top (open) end of the cup against the left palm held flat with thumb up
Beat
4: place the cup down, right side up. Don't let go of the cup.
Beat 5: place the bottom of the cup in the left palm, then
grasp with left hand. "Switch" the cup to your left hand in this movement.
Beat 6: Slap the table (or floor) with the right
palm down.
Beat 7: Using the left hand, place the cup in front of the person to the right, reaching over the right hand
that has slapped down. The cup is placed upside down, in position to begin the first part.
Beat 8: Rest
Suggestions:
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Teach the first part first and pass the cups on the "up/down" part putting it down in front of the person to your right.
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You'll need enough cups for everyone playing, but as you are teaching it, pass the cups out gradually. Pass to your right
until everyone in the circle has a cup in front of him or her. Once everyone has a cup, teach the second part s..l..o..w..l..y!
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Use plastic tumbler cups. Paper cups will get crushed and cans are too noisy.
• Try this game using the Washington
Post March (Sousa)
• Try this in a performance using white gloves, white cups and black light.
• Have the
kids make up their own cup passing patterns!
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| Basketball and STOMP Activity - Laura Bartolomeo |
I had an unmotivated group once (seventh graders), and we
used a basketball beat activity and combined it with the video STOMP. (This would work well with fourth through eighth graders.)
1.
We looked for three things while watching STOMP - the steady beat, an ostinato, and then the main rhythm. Once the students
had the idea, I put them in groups of four or five.
2. Using nothing but body percussion, the students were to have
a steady beat begin, then layer on an ostinato, then the main rhythm (we used nursery rhyme rhythms - clapped, not spoken),
then the ostinato would drop out, and then the steady beat would stop for the ending. (It was a basic symmetrical layer on
then layer off.) The students knew that if they did this well (i.e., silent start, good middle, silence after the ending,
organized, professional, etc.) that each group would then get a basketball.
3. Using the basketball, repeat #2.
4.
Going back to no props, change the form. Instead of Intro-A-Coda, try Intro-A-B-A-coda, or like the video try stopping all
patterns and re-starting.
The students really loved this activity. After each performance we would discuss
whether we heard a steady beat, ostinato, etc., and they quickly had true understanding of those concepts.
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