One-a-Day Warm-ups for Orff Instruments

By Linda Forrest.

These simple songs and patterns give students a chance to warm up their playing skills. Spend 5-10 minutes each day playing warm-ups. Emphasize posture, technique, style, and steady beat. Patterns are all types of borduns and variations, beginning with simple one-chord patterns. There are 30 warm-ups. There are 25 Sing-Along Songs from which to choose. Once the song is familiar, add body percussion and then instruments.

Many of the exercises can begin with clapping and patting highs and lows. The instruments are not labelled. Try them on unpitched instruments. Once the patterns are established, let students be creative and add parts on their own. A provided chart shows which Warmups (and Key) to use with each Sing-Along Song.

All pages are reproducible.

38 pages.

For grades 1-5.

Contents:

One-a-Day Warm-ups, Borduns: Chords; Level; Interval, Cross Over, Two-Part, Ostinato, I, I-V, I-IV-V.

Sing-Along Songs

• Rain, Rain
• It's Raining
• Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
• Hot Cross Buns
• Hop Old Squirrel
• The Closet Key
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Rocky Mountain
• Button
• You Must Wander
• Riding in the Buggy
• Lil' Liza Jane
• Jingle at the Window
• Land of the Silver Birch
• Scotland's Burning
• Are You Sleeping?
• Mister Rabbit
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Dance Josey
• Turn the Glasses Over
• My Lord, What a Morning
• Down by the Station
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Sarasponda
• Skip to My Lou
• Old Joe Clark