The Orff Site Show Jerry Bradley

Using the body percussion patterns as taught by both Jim Solomon and Jo Ella Hug, we add a little bit of 12 bar blues. Students as young as second grade can learn and be successful with this pattern. Next, you can move this pattern to drums and barred instruments. Mix it any way you want. Use canon form or even add an ostinato below the pattern. Retrograde some numbers, 3,2, 1 and always play the "1" in the center of a conga or djembe for an interesting sound. Have fun! Visit my site www.orffsite.com and follow me on Twitter, @orffsitedotcom

This podcast contains excerpts from a 3rd grade class lesson. In the lesson, I start with a poem, the have the students help create ostinati by using word chains. They practice the rhythms using body percussion and then move the body percussion to actual non-pitched percussion instruments. The next lesson, not included in this broadcast, would be to move the poem to pitched instruments as a melody. From there you can build a form and add other speech and movement.

This podcast deals with story selection for Orff based lessons, mentions where to find teaching visuals and some lesson ideas on the Orffsite.com website, and offers an Orff Approach teacher planning process outline to listeners. www.orffsite.com

In this episode I illustrate ways to take a simple poem and do many different musical activities with the poem or rhyme. This episode refers to a poem and lesson that is posted on my website. You can find the "Black Bat" lesson and PowerPoint at my site, http://www.orffsite.com
Find the lesson under the lesson section or the PowerPoint section.

Julie Scott is Assistant Professor in Music Education at Southern Methodist University.  She recently completed a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music, where she was Assistant Professor of Music Education for one year.  Prior to teaching at the collegiate level, Dr. Scott taught elementary music in Texas schools for 17 years.  She has been a director of children's choirs in both school and church settings, currently as director of the Lewisville ISD 5th Grade Honor Choir, which was selected as one of two elementary choirs to perform at the Texas Music Educators Conference in 2004.   Previously, Dr. Scott served as the children's choir director at First United Methodist Church, Dallas and as director of the Mesquite All-City Girls Choir.   Her choirs have been featured on two recordings for Choristers Guild, and she is the author of the Early Childhood Year 3 Stepping Stones children’s choir curriculum, which is published by Choristers Guild.
I was privileged to have Dr. Scott talk with me during my break from Orff Level III classes at SMU. She gives a great overview of what Orff-Schulwerk is. Enjoy!
Related Links:
http://www.juliekscott.com/index.htm
http://tinyurl.com/32nya8d
http://tinyurl.com/3xx2e45
Music: The introduction is based on Alpha IV, a body percussion piece by Jim Solomon, in his book The Body Rondo Book available on amazon.com.

This episode concerns the importance of workshops and continuing ed. Workshops are my favorite sources of teaching procedures and lesson ideas. They are highly motivational and put me in contact with great fellow teachers. This podcast refers to a NTAOSA workshop led by Paul Cribari in Dallas, TX on April 24, 2010. Paul Cribari teaches music to children in kindergarten through fifth grade in the Cherry Creek School District of Colorado. In addition to teaching general music, Paul conducts the school choir and oversees the music classes in the school's "Aftercare for the Arts and Sciences" program. Paul received his Bachelors degree from the University of Northern Colorado, and his Masters degree from the University of St. Thomas. In addition to being a regular clinician for local chapters of AOSA and state MENC conferences, he has presented at several AOSA National Conferences and has been on the faculty for Orff Schulwerk teacher training courses at several other universities. Attend a workshop led by Paul. It's much more fantastic than my selective memory of the workshop!