Singing Class Notes and Materials
An Impromptu Glorious Chorus™
@ Shambhala Center, Decatur
4-Beat Phrase Improv
Create a 4-beat phrase. Everyone sing it until it’s familiar.
Group sings 4-beat phrase twice. Then one person creates a musical phrase by sing their name over 4 beats. Everyone repeats their phrase. The same person sings their name again, with new music, but still over 4 beats. Everyone repeats this new phrase. Group sings the original 4-beat phrase twice. Continue around the circle with each person creating two different 4-beat phrases for the group to sing.
Variation: Person one creates
Some People Talk A Lot
composer unknown
SOME PEOPLE TALK A LOT
Some people talk a lot and don’t say a thing
So it’s better yet to let them sing!
Samo Allah
Bosnian prayer, revised by Elise Witt
© Non Si Sa Mai Music ASCAP
SAMO ALLAH
Ahhhhh
Dites-moi cela
Dites-moi pourquoi
Si nous voulons la paix
Pourqoui nous ne nous aimons pas?
Je cherche la paix
Mais aussi l’egalite
Et bien sur la diversite
We want peace, we say
But justice and equalitay
Join the peace for which we pray
Ahhhhh
Swimming To Survive
SWIMMING TO SURVIVE
Intro (sung only once)
My mother taught me how to swim
When I was very young
Swimming to survive
Round
You kick, and then you glide
You kick, kick, and then you glide
It’a all in the rhythm
It’a all in the rhythm
It’a all in the rhythm of the heart
Keep breathing, it’s the most important part
Keep breathing, it’s the most important part
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Singing For Our Lives
by Holly Near
© Hereford Music
Singing For Our Lives
We are a gentle, angry people
And we are singing, singing for our lives
We are a gentle, angry people
And we are singing, singing for our lives
We are a land of many colors
We are gay and straight to gather
We are old and young together
We are a justice seeking people
etc…
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Happy Birthday Waltz
by Tom Chapin & John Forster
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALTZ
Happy birthday, happy birthday we love you
Happy birthday and may all your dreams come true
When you blow out the candles, one light stays aglow
That’s the love light in your eyes where’er you go