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Composing with Movement: a beginner’s guide to body percussion – music lesson

(48 customer reviews)
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This beginner’s guide to body percussion helps students in grades K–2 compose with clapping, snapping, patting, and tapping. Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with their bodies, play a body percussion game to a steady beat, and then use printable cards to compose their own body percussion piece.

What’s included

  • A slideshow with a clickable table of contents
  • 9 slides that guide students to create a thunderstorm with body percussion, with soft, medium, and loud sounds
  • The Body Percussion Game, where a student leader calls out body percussion sounds to a steady beat
  • Composition prompts for a body percussion piece and for composing with the printable cards
  • Drag-and-drop Google Slides where students compose by moving body percussion icons
  • Printable body percussion cards in black and white
  • Half-page printable worksheets

Formats

  • PDF
  • Google Slides: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.

Important

  • A recording is not included. You’ll need a piece of music with a clear steady beat for the Body Percussion Game.

Ways to use it

  • A first composition lesson for young students
  • A review of soft, medium, and loud
  • Small groups, where students recreate everyday sounds (walking, running, opening a can) with body percussion
  • To practice steady beat first, pair it with Basics of Steady Beat in Music.

Standards (NCAS)

  • Creating: Anchor Standard 1 (generate and conceptualize artistic ideas)
  • Creating: Anchor Standard 2 (organize and develop artistic ideas and work)
  • Performing: Anchor Standard 4 (select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation)

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48 reviews for Composing with Movement: a beginner’s guide to body percussion – music lesson

  1. Julie R. –

    Great. I love the idea. Can’t wait to use it with my grade 1, 2, and 3 drama and dance classes.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Awesome! Thank you!

  2. Gina Johnson –

    Great!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  3. rlbutah –

    This looks like so much fun…I can’t wait to use it!!! Thanks so much!! 🙂

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  4. Elizabeth H. –

    Very Cute!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  5. Canucky Tried Music –

    Looks great!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  6. Ashley Kaylor –

    I would love it if you added a page with twelve small composition boxes too.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the suggestion! I will definitely get started on that and add it on as soon as I can. Once it’s uploaded, you’ll receive a note about the revisions. If you have anything else specific you would like to see with this file, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m always looking for ways to make my products the very best that they can be 🙂 You can reach me at: theylbrickroad@gmail.com

  7. Rockin’ Robyn –

    Love it – great idea

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the feedback 🙂

  8. Kimberly G. –

    Thanks. This is a great way to introduce students to writing down movements.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

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