Image of music score for "When The Saints Go Marching In". Image created by M. Grayburn
PRACTICE HINTS:
This song uses ties in several places. A tie is like an addition problem. Take the value of the first note (number of beats) and add it to the value of the note it is tied to (number of beats). The total is the number of beats you hold the one note. Do NOT play them as two separate notes!
Again, practice your articulation, or tonguing, by using your tongue to start each note, as if saying "to" or "do".
Notice the dotted half note. If a dot equals 1/2 the value of the note before it, see if you can figure out how many beats this note gets. If a half note gets two beats, the dot equals one beat. The total value of the note is.....3 beats!
Again in this song, notice the comma that occasionally appears above the staff. You know what to do!
Click below for a recording a recorder playing When The Saints Go Marching In with the accompaniment. |
Click below for the accompaniment for When The Saints Go Marching In. |
Click below to download the score, as shown above, for When The Saints Go Marching In.
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Click below to download a score for When The Saints Go Marching In that will help you to learn the letter names of the notes.
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Click below to download a score for When The Saints Go Marching In 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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The most famous person to perform When the Saints Go Marching In was Louis Armstrong, a trumpet player from New Orelans, Louisiana. While you watch his performance, listen for how the musicians improvise (that means make up variations on the melody while they are playing). You will notice that not only do the instruments improvise, but singers do, too. Do you hear her "nonsense" syllables? That is called scat singing. |
Video of Louis Armstrong performing "When The Saints Go Marching In". video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA |
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans in 1901. He had a difficult childhood. At the age of 12, he had to go into a boys home. In the boys home, he learned to work hard in school, and learned to play the trumpet. Louis wanted to make people happy. He loved to perform. You can tell he loved what he was doing by his characteristic big smile. Did you see it in the video above? Louis was famous for his ability to improvise, or make up a section of the music. See if you can tell when he is improvising in the video. Mr. Armstrong was one of the most famous jazz musicians in the USA. He is responsible for helping make jazz popular. He was one of the first "cross over" artists, meaning that he was one of the first African American artists that was popular with everyone. He passed away in 1971 and left a legacy as one of "Jazz Greats!" Now, it's your turn to try to improvise. Use the notes from When The Saints Go Marching In, try notes G, A, B, D, and E. Make up a pattern using just those notes! See if it fits using the accompaniment track! Improvising Jazz is fun!
- Have I learned to read the high C and high D?
- How did my group do in learning "When The Saints Go Marching In"?
- Did I play the tied notes correctly?
- 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 When The Saints Go Marching In.
- Create a short instructional video for how to play When The Saints Go Marching In on the recorder.
- Improvise a melody during the tied notes.
- 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 When The Saints Go Marching In.
- Draw or paint the scene of a Dixieland Jazz Band.