Choral
Choir Warm-ups, Rounds, and Silliness
Children’s Choir
- To Stop the Train
- Bow Wow Wow
- Hear the Lovely Sound (frog)
- I am the Bear
- Zinga Zinga Zoom
- Hide the Pattern
- Breathe in, hiss out, balloon POP!
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Ezekiel
- Gilly Gilly Gilly Good Morning
- One Bright and Early Morning
- I’m Happy to See You
- Goodbye to You All
- Juicy Moose
- Purple Lights
- The Princess Pat/The Cutest Worm
- Say Hello from Your Head to Your Toes
- A Ram Sam Sam
Tongue Twisters
- Mommy Made Me Mash My M&Ms
- Many Miniature Mumbling Mice
- Seven Sassy Sailors Sailed the Seven Salty Seas (5434 5434 5432 1)
- Red Leather, Yellow Leather
- Toy Boat
- Irish Wristwatch
- Diction is Done with the Tip of the Tongue and the Teeth
- Zing-a-ma-ma (repeat on each note of descending 5-note scale)
Cadet Choir/Choristers
- The Ball Goes Up
- Bim Bom
- Have you Ever Been Down the Waterspout?
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- Do, Do Re Do (1, 121)
- A E I O U
- Do Do, Do Re, Do Mi
- What a Weird Bird the Frog Is
- My Dame Had a Lame
- Why Shouldn’t My Goose
- Nee-Saw
- I Sat Down With the Duchess to Tea
- I am Slowly Going Crazy
- ME balabba (YOU, HE, SHE, WE. THEY, ME)
- Darlin'
- To the Greenwood
- One Bottle of Pop
- Come and Follow Me
Concert Choir
- Someday
- By the Waters of Babylon
- Yonder Come Day
- Old Abram Brown
- Amen
- He Has Done Marvelous
- Cantate Domino
- Round and Round
- Oh Lord, We Praise You
- Ah Poor Bird
- Rose Rose
- Shalom Chaverim
- Gaudeamus Hodie
- The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep
- Wimoweh
- Jubilate Deo
- Milhabilou
- DDDDSSDDD
- drM2, dmM3, dfP4, dsP5 then rdM2, mdM3...Then together
- Pass the Beat Around the Room (rest, tap the shoulders). Keep constant pulse. Replace beat with a stomp
- Clapping Game (quarter note - same direction, 2 eighths - reverse, 2 sixteenths eighth skips)
- Pentatonic Game (d, drd, drmrd, drmsmrd, drmslsmrd (then start on “la”) replace mi with a snap, then sol with a shoulder tap, then re with a patsch, then la with a head tap, then do with a stomp)
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Two of our number warm-ups, sung on scale degrees:
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1 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3, 4 5 1 2 3...
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1 3 5 8 7 6 5 4
3 5 2 3 4 #5