Four Songs About Friends Webinar - Handout

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1. Four songs about friends
   © Welcome to Music - Susie Davies-Splitter & Phil Splitter
   www.welcometomusic.net pg. 1
   Webinar notes
   Presented by Susie Davies-Splitter
   To sing, move and play in choir, at graduation
   and/or in the primary school Orff classroom
   Website: Facebook: YouTube:
   

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2. © Welcome to Music
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   Meaning
   Funga Alafia is a traditional song from Western Africa sung in the
   Yoruba language and means friends – we welcome and bless you
   Section A
   Section B
   Call and Response song
   This is a call and response song – the response is always the same or
   similar. In this song, there are 2 similar responses A & B
   

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3. This song fits with the ‘Obwisana’ song as a partner song – hear our
   recording on Spotify, Apple Music and ITunes or on Blackbelt Ukulele 1
   Refer to the Musicmap story book
   Instruction video with even more activities including bucket
   drumming!
   Audio track available on Spotify, Apple Music and ITunes –
   Vocal, ukulele and backing tracks available on Blackbelt Ukulele 1
   Extensions
   Videos and recordings
   search Susie Davies-Splitter & Phil Splitter
   © Welcome to Music
   pg. 3
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   Do the actions and listen to the English words
   Do the actions and listen to the song
   Sing the responses - ‘a-shay a-shay’
   What’s the difference between the 2 responses?
   Do all of the actions and just sing the responses
   Sing the calls and responses with actions
   Play the ‘bom bom’s’ on your knees and then transfer to a drum
   Keep the beat on your drum and play the rhythm of the ‘bom
   bom’s’ and ‘a-shay a-shay’s’
   Divide into calls and responses
   Inner hearing – say some of the words in your head and do the
   actions
   Divide into 2 groups – sing section A and B at the same time
   Sing as 2 and 4 part round one bar apart with actions
   Sing, move & play
   

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   Body Percussion - do 5 stamps and 3 claps as an ostinato whilst listening to
   the song
   Movement – walk around for 5 steps and clap someone’s hands x 3 (or click)
   Improvise - add body percussion improvisation where it says ‘improvise’
   Melody
   Bass - add body percussion
   Harmony parts
   Body Percussion, movement and improvisation
   Vocal parts
   Learn all of the parts through echo and adding hand signs and solfa
   C – clap; G – pat thighs; D – click; F – pat knees; A & B – chest
   

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   Extensions
   Add instrument accompaniment
   Transfer the bass part to a bass xylophone or marimba
   Add shakers and non-melodic instruments
   Ukulele Chord Chart
   4/4 II: C / / / I / / / / I / / / / I G7 / / / I C / / / I F / / / I C / / G7 / I C / / X :II
   Improvisation
   Add body percussion or vocal improvisation in the gaps using notes
   from the C pentatonic scale
   Videos and recordings
   Instruction video
   Vocal, ukulele and backing tracks available on Blackbelt Ukulele 2
   A friend like you
   

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6. © Welcome to Music
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   Translation – goodbye friends, until we meet again. Shalom also means
   ‘hello’ and ‘peace’.
   Pronunciation – ‘Ch’ is pronounced ‘H’ with a guttural throaty sound
   Echo say the words and focus on the pronunciation
   Listen to the sung words and accompany with a body percussion
   ostinato
   Change the body percussion ostinato
   Listen to the sung words and draw the 4 phrases in the air
   Sing the 4th phrase, then the 2nd then join in with the entire song
   Sing in a 2 then 4 part round
   Add movement – see below or create your own dance
   Body percussion, listening, speech and song
   

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7. Ukulele – play the D minor chord all the way through on the 1st and
   3rd beats of the bar
   Percussion - play the marimba/xylophone and glockenspiel ostinati
   Recorder – play melody on recorder using ‘D’s instead of the low ‘A’s
   This is a 4 part canon (round)
   Choose an instrument to play – either ukulele, bass or alto xylophone
   or glockenspiel
   Sing in unison x 2 (together)
   Play the melody on a recorder or other instrument
   Divide into 4 groups and sing in a round. Choose a colour to follow all
   the way through until the words stop – yellow, green, pink or blue
   Instrument accompaniments
   Follow the video animation with recorder play along
   Instructions:
   Recorded on ‘Blackbelt Ukulele 3’
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8. © Welcome to Music
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   Echo say then sing the words, 2 bars at a time - accompany with a
   body percussion ostinato
   Sing in unison
   Sing each part as an ostinato
   Sing in a 5 part round
   Practise the coda
   Section A
   Sing as an ostinato throughout the song and accompany with body
   percussion. Add solfa and hand signs
   Section D
   Listen to the spoken then sung words and accompany with a body
   percussion ostinato. Accompany with solfa and hand signs
   Sing the song
   Play section A as an ostinato throughout on a bass xylophone or
   marimba
   Play section D as an ostinato throughout on an alto xylophone
   Accompany on the ukulele/guitar or piano
   Sing in unison (together)
   For the canon, divide into 5 groups and choose a colour to follow all
   the way through to the coda (ending) – blue, yellow, pink, green or
   purple
   Sing the coda together with harmonies
   Play
   Follow the video animation – instructions:
   Recorded on ‘Move It’
   Audio track available on Spotify, Apple Music and ITunes – search Susie
   Davies-Splitter & Phil Splitter
   Available as a choral arrangement with piano accompaniment
   

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