Teaching Kids to Sing

One of the hardest things a voice teacher has to do is to help a singer lose their bad habits, and we all know how well ingrained a bad habit can be. With the products available here, your kids will be able to skip the bad habits stage and go right into being good singers. What could be better? Without being so childish as to bore the kids, these works are aimed at teaching younger singers in techniques that work with the sweeter, tender voices of youthful singers. They cover the vast array of skills and techniques a choral director, conductor or teacher, with examples from some of the most prestigious children’s choirs from around the globe.

Chris and Carol Beatty: Teaching Kids To Sing - Building Foundations That Last

Introduction
We're Vocal Athletes
Posture
Upright Child of The King (Song)
Breathing
Tone
Warming Up
Warm Up exercises

Who will train the singers of tomorrow and prepare them to use their voices the right way? Chris and Carole Beatty have been training singers for nearly 3 decades. Through their CDs, DVDs, books and Videos, as well as workshops for all ages, they have touched singers and speakers world wide. Their passion for excellence in vocal training is renowned. Their impact on today's and tomorrow's singers is felt daily in schools, churches and the recording industry. The Teaching Kids To Sing series from Vocal Coach is an interactive training tool for teachers, parents, choir directors and children alike. The clear presentation of material is guaranteed to have immediate impact and the entertaining format makes learning fun. The Vocal Coach Kids join Chris & Carole Beatty in looking at the issues of Posture, Breathing, Tone and Warm-ing Up the voice

6243 DVD $19.98

Chris and Carol Beatty: Teaching Kids To Sing - Essential Skills For Growing Voices

Intro & Overview
Breathing Rap
Warm-Up #1 Ya Ya
Warm-Up #2 Ha Ha/He Ah
Warm-Up #3 Me Oh Me Oh Me/MMM
Warm-Up #4 Ha.../Ho/Hoo
Diction
The Diction Song
Dynamics
Staccato & Legato
Rhythm & Tempo
Loud, Soft, Fast, Slow Song
Voice Care
Closing Thoughts

The Teaching Kids To Sing series from Vocal Coach is an interactive training tool for teachers, parents, choir directors and children alike. The clear presentation of material is guaranteed to have immediate impact and the entertaining format makes learning fun. Rhythm, Diction and Dynamics are among the topics the kids work through with coaches Chris and Carole Beatty. The principles are taught and applied in a clear, systematic and fun way.

6222 DVD $19.98

Peter Hunt: Voiceworks 1 - A Handbook for Singing

Section I: Unison
Section II: Into Parts
Section III: Harmony

Voiceworks is a magnificent resource for promoting good singing in pre-schools, schools, community choirs, adult choirs and everywhere that people sing. The Voiceworks books (complete with CDs) are packed with songs and ideas which are practical, motivating, and accessible. Voiceworks is a complete guide and support for anyone who encourages or teaches other people to sing well. Confidence and ability in singing are not age-related but experience-related, and the songs in this book have been sung by nine-year olds in school, and seventy-nine year olds at a village community Senior Citizens Club. This book will help your singers build the necessary skills to become more comfortable with their singing voice, thus, sounding worlds better.

9553 BOOK & CD $49.95

Peter Hunt and David Oliver: Folk Voiceworks - 30 Traditional Songs

Section I: Work
Section II: Of the Land
Section III: Protest and Politics
Section IV: Reflection
Section V: Love
Section VI: Ritual and Custom

Folk Voiceworks is an outstanding collection of traditional songs following the Voiceworks model for children of around KS2 level (ages 7-11) upwards. Presenting 30 fantastic traditional songs, from unison to 4-part harmony, this is a rich resource for choirs everywhere. With a CD and supporting teaching notes, Folk Voiceworks is a complete handbook for singing for all teachers and choir leaders. The Voiceworks handbooks for singing are now firmly established as a resource that encourages and supports those who help other people to sing well and with confidence. Their hallmark is a wide range of accessible material, with teaching notes to guide the leader/conductor in promoting good practice and technique for enjoyable and healthy singing. The repertoire and arrangements are flexible to cater for unison and part-singing, by voices at all stages of development, and varying levels of experience.

9560 BOOK & 2CDs $49.95

Jo McNally: Young Voiceworks - 32 Songs for Young Singers

Section 1: Move that Voice
Section 2: Keep the Beat
Section 3: The Singing Voice
Section 4: Songs from Many Cultures
Section 5: Just for Fun

Young Voiceworks is an exciting collection of songs to help young singers and their leaders grow together musically and develop healthy voices for a lifetime of singing and pleasurable music-making. The songs teach basic musical concepts for primary-aged children and make up a 'working repertoire' that can be revisited throughout the primary school years. The songs are short, fun to sing, and accessible. Teachers and singing leaders at all stages will find these songs a useful addition to their concert programmes and music curriculum.

9557 BOOK & CD $39.95

Kevin Stannard: Junior Voiceworks 2 - 33 More Songs for Children

Rhythm And Language
Rounds
Around The World
Animal Antics
Humanity

Young Voiceworks is an exciting collection of songs to help young singers and their leaders grow together musically and develop healthy voices for a lifetime of singing and pleasurable music-making. The songs teach basic musical concepts for primary-aged children and make up a 'working repertoire' that can be revisited throughout the primary school years. The songs are short, fun to sing, and accessible. Teachers and singing leaders at all stages will find these songs a useful addition to their concert programmes and music curriculum.

9559 BOOK & 2CDs $39.95

Allison Street and Linda Bance: Voiceplay - 22 Songs for 3-5 year-olds

Songs To Help Things Happen
Songs With Movement
Songs To Help Singing Voices
Songs For Play
Songs That Tell Stories

Voiceplay is an inspired collection of songs which can be used by all practitioners, whether or not they are music specialists, in all Early Years settings. Voiceplay is for practitioners working in Early Years settings and also for parents and carers at home. Whether you are running a session with thirty children or sitting in a corner with three, Voiceplay shows you how you can use your voice to lead others and help young children develop their singing.

9556 BOOK & CD $29.95

Robert de Frece: Hooray for Singing!

Visuals for Teaching
Follow Your Own Instructions Canon
Come and Sing a Round
There's a Little Wheel A-turnin' in My Heart
Morning Canon
Good Night
Deck the Hall
Climbin' the Hall
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit

Singing deserves a place at the center of all the musical skills. This fun collection will delight students and enhance their part-singing and sight-singing skills. Teaching suggestions are included for each of nine songs which range from unison to rounds to 2-part, to simple 3- and 4-part voicings. Movement accompanies each song which enhances the learning experience and provides for exciting performances. Grades 4-8.

6521 BOOK $14.95

John Feierabend: The Book of Call and Response: You Sing, I Sing

Introduction
Snaps And Snails
Sugar And Spice
On The Phone
Fur, Feathers & Fins
Places Near And Far
Songs Of Faith
Come Sail Away

Whether sung arond a campfire, in a classroom, or on a family road trip, call-and-response songs, in which a leader sings a phrase and a group sings back a reply, are a wonderful interactive experience for kids!

6417 BOOK $11.95

John Feierabend: The Book of Pitch Exploration

Introduction
Ideas
Poems and Stories
Songs
Books
Index

Explore the wonders of the human voice with the fun, magical activities in The Book of Pitch Exploration! Whether it's whooshing or shushing, hooting or booing, the human voice is capable of creating all kinds of sounds. This book allows children to discover these sounds through ideas, poems, stories, and songs that invite vocal participation from all involved. Not only are these activities fun, they also make excellent vocal warm-ups!

6255 BOOK $11.95

John Feierabend: The Book of Echo Songs: I'll Sing After You

Alabama Bound
All Hid
All Night Long
Banks Of The Ohio
Billy Grogen's Goat
Bury Me Not
Candy Man
Caney Mi Macaro
Charlie Over The Ocean
Come All Ye Fair Ladies
Come Along
Deacon Went Down
Down By The Bay
Ev'ry Night
Flea! Fly!
Freedom Land
Habg About
He, He, Wanna Wawate
I Met A Bear
In The Woods
Johnny On The Wood Pile
Kye Kye Kule
Littlest Worm
Long John
My Aunt Came Back
My Name Is Michael
No More My Lord
No More Pie
Old Texas
Old John Henry
Prettiest Girl
Purple Light
Ricka Bamboo
This Old Hammer
Trail To Mexico
Tongo

These traditional echo songs are built around a leader singing a phrase and a group singing the same phrase back. With the songs in this collection, kids can indulge their imitation tendencies and create joyful, irrepressible music at the same time. These timeless tunes allow kids to learn quickly and start making music and having fun right away.

6418 BOOK $11.95

Brian Kane: Sing After Me - Echo Songs and Warm Ups for Young Voices

Bonny The Beaver
Can You Hear Me
The Fishing Boat
Ghost of Halloween
Jean on Trapeze
Letter Olympics
Patrick Thundersmacks
Slithering Sam
Stanley the Stingray
Tumbletun
Worksheets

Sing After Me contains ten fantastically funny, unusually useful, amazingly adaptive, excellent echo songs to help students learn to sing with practically perfect pitch and deliberately delightful diction. The book includes a sing-a-long and demonstration CD, reproducible student worksheets, and movement, art, and language activities for each song and simple piano accompaniment. Ages 6-13.

6645 BOOK & CD $22.95

John Jacobson and Alan Billingsley: Choose Your Partner - A Collection Of Partner Songs for Young Singers

All I Do is Work
The Best Choir in the World
City Life
Fifty Stars
Goodbye my Friends
Home
My America
Quiet!
A Rainbow of Peace
Snow Beautiful Snow
The Sun and Moon
Way Up High

Partner a fresh new original song with an old favorite... add choreography by John Jacobson and you've got an exciting collection to introduce 2-part singing to your elementary students. Learn each tune separately, then put them together for instant harmonic fun! This all-in-one format comes complete with piano/vocal accompaniment, choreography and reproducible singer pages

6556 BOOK $19.95

John Jacobson: Hello, Hello - Echo Songs and Activities For Young Singers

Hello-oooo! Hello-oooo! Help young singers develop their listening and pitch matching skills while reinforcing basic music concepts .. and have fun doing it!! These 'educational echos' will motivate students to respond to common patters of sound that involve pitch direction, high/low. loud/soft, intervals, sequence, steady beat and more! Students will also develop motor skills and beat awareness with simple movement sequences for each song, and expand learning with fun extension activities.

6554 BOOK & CD $29.95

Cheryl Lavender: Singing Fun for Little Ones

Created and field-tested especially for 'little ones' in Kindergarten - Grade 2, thi Book/CD features 24 origina l songs and sight-reading pieces that will delight and challenge your budding musicians! You'll find warm-ups, holiday celebrations, seasonal songs, high/low pitch games, language arts connections with syllables and rhymes, movement and dramatizations, piano, fingerplays, and even a song to wrap up a successful school year. Of special interest are twelve monthly, developmentally-sequenced, sight-reading pieces designed to build music literacy skills with patterns of ta, ti-ti, rest, so-mi-la and mi-re-do. The enclosed CD recording includes both full performance and accompaniment tracks for the songs, and instrumental backup tracks for the signt-reading pieces.

6553 BOOK & CD $24.95

Peggy D. Bennett: Song Play

This book is ideal for all teachers of young children, both classroom teachers an music specialists. Each songplay section includes a detailed step-by-step teaching process, opportunities for cross-curricular connections and a listing of recommended literature readings. The well-designed layout makes lesson planning a breeze! The book includes a 'coaching' CD with helpful musical prompts and song demonstrations in various keys by an adult solo voice for use in preparing each lesson. Over 40 songs.

6579 BOOK & CD $24.95

Kathleen Wojcik-May: Children Sing, Children Play

Introduction
Singing
Rhythm
Continuum
Vocabulary
Listening
Basic Skill
Performance
Social Skills
Movement
Monthly Activities
Specific Goals
Suggested Materials
Rhythm
Songs
Games

There is nothing more joyful than a group of children playing. This wonderful music resource will help young children acquire an intuitive knowledge of musical elements through movement, singing and speaking that will prepare them for both reading and performing music as they grow. This book is ideal for all teachers of young children, both classroom teachers and music specialists, and is divided into a year-long sequence of rhymes, songs, games, and music listening activities. Drawn from our rich heritage of folk material, the carefully-sequenced curriculum will provide a wealth of enjoyment and experience, while developing language skills and musicianship. Practical advice fills this book, and the well-designed layout makes lesson planning a breeze! Includes CD.

6547 BOOK & CD $29.95

Linda Rann: Kodaly in the Classroom - A Practical Approach to Teaching Pitch and Rhythm

ohnny Works with One Hammer
Bernie Bee
Oliver Twist
Teddy Bear
Charlie Over the Ocean
Tick Tock
The Closet Key
Engine, Engine Number Nine
Bye Low
Michael Finnegan
Skip to My Lou
Who's That Tapping at My Window?
Bounce High
Ring Around the Rosie
Star Light, Star Bright
See Saw
Rain, Rain
Partner, Partner
Little Sally Water
Snail, Snail
Bobby Shaftoe
Lucy Locket
Pease Porridge Hot
I See the Moon
Hot Cross Buns
Hop, Old Squirrel
Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Great Big House in New Orleans
Bow, Wow, Wow
Rocky Mountain High

Kodaly in the Classroom (Set 1) is a collection of children's songs and teacher lessons sequentially organized to teach the basics of pitch and rhythm through singing and games for upper elementary students. The song material consists of American folk and well-known children's songs. Teacher lessons are easy to follow and do not require previous training in Kodaly methodology. The collection includes lesson plans, reproducible singer sheets and activities.

6550 BOOK $19.95

PRIMARY


Linda Rann: Kodaly in the Classroom - A Practical Approach to Teaching Pitch and Rhythm

Long Legged Sailor
Weevily Wheat
Old Blue
Are You Sleeping?
Button, You Must Wander
Dinah, Dinah
Amasee
Chatter with the Angels
Old Brass Wagon
Canoe Song
Alabama Gal
Love Somebody
Tideo
The Birch Tree
O, How Lovely is the Evening
Music Alone Shall Live
Cape Cod Girls
Viva la Musica
Land of the Silver Birch
Laughing, Singing

Kodaly in the Classroom (Set 1) is a collection of children's songs and teacher lessons sequentially organized to teach the basics of pitch and rhythm through singing and games for upper elementary students. The song material consists of American folk and well-known children's songs. Teacher lessons are easy to follow and do not require previous training in Kodaly methodology. The collection includes lesson plans, reproducible singer sheets and activities.

6551 BOOK $19.95

INTERMEDIATE


Barham & Nelson: The Boy's Changing Voice

Voice Placement
Recognizing Change
Testing Prodecures
Time-Savers
Variables With Change
Good Strokes For Your Singing Folks
Putting The Pieces Together - The Puzzle of Selecting
Life With Chameleons
Tips for Training The Tigers
Teacher Prescriptions For Sanity
Scores That Don't Bore
Breathing and Posture
Tone Quality
Range Development and Flexibilty
Ear Training

For the middle school/junior high choral teacher. This text takes out much of the guesswork of teaching boys whose voices are changing . Includes testing methods, extensive warm-up and voice development exercises, self-image concepts, an extensive list of appropriate choral works, and other welcome information.

6244 BOOK $9.98

Rhythms, Rounds and Joyful Sounds - Director's Manual

Anthems For All Seasons
Joyful Warm-ups
General Music Lessons And Activities
Reproducible Singer Pages

It's children's choir rehearsal time....again! Here is a budget-stretching, creative answer to filling a variety of needs for a multitude of rehearsals and performances. Packed with creative activities, tips, anthems (for all seasons), warm-ups and rounds, this is a collection you'll use time and again, all year long. It was created by children's choir leaders for children's choir leaders with practical "field-tested" ideas that really work.

9198 SONGBOOK $29.95

Michael and Jill Gallina: Rhymes, Raps and Rhythms

Snack Attack
Shootin' Hoops
Nothing to Wear
Be Cool, Stay in School
Procrastination
TV Raps
Don't Try It!
Pollution Revolution
Rhythm Reading

Now students can have fun while improving their rhythm-reading skills and beat awareness with this hip collection of original rhymes and raps. Each of the 8 contemporary songs reinforces a particular rhythm concept and features a variety of popular subjects guaranteed to capture your attention. The Teacher's Manual includes teaching tips, performance options, and suggestions for adding your own rhythm accompaniments.

9239 SONGBOOK $16.95

150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching

Performing The Rounds
Rounds
General Categories (Sacred, Secular, Topical)
Pedagogical Categories
Pronunciation Guide
Other Useful Collections

This flexible collection offers a wealth of excellent material for singing in rounds. All of the standard rounds are represented, including many by master composers as well as anonymous ones. The book is divided into three main sections: rounds with texts, rounds without texts and selected rounds in score format. In addition to a complete alphabetical index, there are separate listings of rounds with sacred texts, rounds with secular texts, rounds about animals, rounds about bells, Christmas rounds, rounds in foreign languages, lullabies, rounds about music, rounds about nature, rounds about singing and street cries. There's even an additional listing of rounds in two parts, three parts, four, five and six parts. This is one collection no music library should be without! From the Kodály Choral Concept. Includes index based on song content and teaching concepts.

9198 BOOK $29.95

Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse: Animals A to Z (27 Unison Songs for Young Singers)

An Absent Minded Alligator
The Baby Baboon Loved the Blues
A Courteous Cockatoo
Watch the Dolphins Dance
The Emu Is His Name
The Fancy Fiddler Crab
Get Up and Go Gecko
The Laughing Hyena
The Innocent Ibis
The Jazzy Jaguar Cub
The Kooky Kookaburra
The Lyin' Lyon
Amani, the Meerkat
Nightingale
Busy River Otter
Can Ya Stand a Panda
Quiet Quail
That Ridiculous Rhinoceros
The Dashing Young Swordfish
To a Toucan
The Umbrella Bird
The Vulture Wanted Culture
Did You Ever Wanna Be a Wallaby?
Beginning With an "X"
A Yakety Yak
A Zany Zebra

Learn all about animals from A to Z with these 27 adorable unison songs for young singers. From the Absent Minded Alligator to the Zany Zebra, young singers will be both tickled and charmed by these informative and whimsical songs. This collection is 100% reproducible, and is perfect for both the classroom and the stage! Recommended for grades K-5. 100% reproducible. Suggestions for additional activities and "About the Animals" information included. Chord symbols included. Can be used as a songbook or a program (approximately 30 minutes).

6522 BOOK & CD $13.95

Denise Bacon: Let's Sing Together! Songs For 3, 4 and 5 Year Olds

From Mother Goose and Others, set to music according to the Kodály Concept. This exciting singing tool comes with instructions for use.

9389 SONGBOOK $15.95

Choral Development Material for Childrens' Choir Directors

Arrangements for Childrens' Choir - Treble Voices

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