Sound Shape Playbook: Drumming Games and Other Music Activities for Percussion

Sound Shape Playbook Drumming Games & Other Music Activities for Percussion By Lynn Kleiner and Christine Stevens Book and CD 44 pages All ages (3 to adult) 22 activities and games for all ages, to infuse your groups with color, rhythm, and fun. Each activity gives a description, list of materials needed, directions for set-up, teaching suggestions, and extension ideas. Learn drum techniques and the many sounds you can make on Remo Sound Shapes, as well as learning fun activities and rhythm games for other hand drums, too. Includes a play-along CD featuring activity songs, and also groove-starter tracks, drumming grooves performed by REMO artists that will get group jamming immediately. Mixed with a strong bell and bass drum, these grooves can be used for many activities where movement and creative jamming are involved. Use the CD to learn the songs and activities in the book, to practice personal drumming skills, to provide a rhythm track to enhance movement activities, and to provide a groove starter for drumming along.
CONTENTS: Using Your CD (CD Tracking Information); Our Philosophy; How Sound Shapes Were Born. How to Make Your Sound Shapes Sing: Holding Positions, Discovering Your Sound, Beaters & Mallets, Maintenance & Storage.   Top 10 Drumming Leadership Tips.   Sound Shape Activities: Key Terminology UsedSection 1- Activities: Sound in the Round, Surround Sound, Wizards & Wands, Thunderstorm Soundscape, Rain Rain Go Away.Section 2- Games: Sound Shape Twister, Name Shuffle, UNO, Sound Sculptures.Section 3- Movement Activities: To the Beat, Shape Sharing, Shape Shifting, Sound Shape Kaleidoscope.Section 4- Chants & Songs: Sound Shape Roll Call, 1-2 Sound Shapes Will Do, Back for More, 10 Musicians Drumming, Rum Tum Tum, Sound Shape Echoes, Q & A Drum & Say (What's for Lunch, Shop 'til You Drop, Vacation Time), Alabama Gal, Chocolate, Listen to the Drums, Old MacDonald, Rhyme in Time, What's My Line.   
CD contents: Sound Shape Demonstration, Sound Shape Call & Response, Groove-Starter Track, Groove-Starter Track with Recorder, Sound Shape Twister- Colors, Name Shuffle, To the Beat, Sound Shape Roll Call, 1-2 Sound Shapes Will Do, Back for More- Colors, Back for More- Shapes, 10 Musicians Drumming, Rum Tum Tum, Sound Shape Echoes- Colors, Sound Shape Echoes- Shapes, What's for Lunch, Shop 'til You Drop, Alabama Gal, Chocolate, Listen to the Drums, Old MacDonald Jam.