Image for music score of "Merrily We Roll Along". Image created by M. Grayburn
PRACTICE HINTS:
Practice your articulation, or tonguing, by using your tongue to start each note, as if saying "to" or "do".
Look at the first phrase (first two measures). Do you see any other phrases that look like this phrase?
Look at the second measure. Do you see any other measure that looks like this measure?
Again in this song, notice the comma that occasionally appears above the staff. What is this called and what does it mean?
Click below for a recording a recorder playing Merrily We Roll Along with the accompaniment. |
Click below for the accompaniment for Merrily We Roll Along. |
Click below to download the score, as shown above, for Merrily We Roll Along. |
Click below to download a score for Merrily We Roll Along that will help you to learn the letter names of the notes. |
Click below to download a score for Merrily We Roll Along that will allow you to write in the letter names of the notes. You can write all of them in OR you can just write one in occasionally to help you. |
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Image of Merrie Melodies (Looney Tunes) cartoons ending scene with text "The End". Image file from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Merrie_Melodies_ending_sequence.png |
This song first appeared on the scene in 1935. You might have heard it before in the Warner Brother Cartoons as the ending theme song. Listen to this version on guitar. |
Video image of a guitar player playing the Looney Tunes theme song which includes the melody "Merrily We Roll Along". Video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmkE5Yza054 |
- Have I learned to read GAB?
- How did my group do in learning Merrily We Roll Along?
- Did I articulate each note (tongue) while playing Merrily We Roll Along?
- Did I breathe only when the breath mark said to breathe?
- What did I learn?
- Have you completed your recorder test with your teacher? Or, did you submit a test with Flipgrid?
- Don't forget to download and turn in your self-evaluation form.
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Interactive Fingering Chart from http://www.musick8.com/rkdojo/rkchart.php |
Extending the Learning
- Create a short instructional video for how to read and analyze the music score for Merrily We Roll Along.
- Create a short instructional video for how to play Merrily We Roll Along on the recorder.
- Write alternate lyrics for this song. Your lyrics can be about anything you want them to be about. You might even consider creating lyrics to help you learn about something from another class!
- Find another song that goes well with Merrily We Roll Along.
- Draw or paint the scene of rolling on the sea.
- What must it be like to be out on the ocean? Write a diary of the daily adventures at sea.