Amy M. Burns

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Hot Cross BAG - A Variation on Hot Cross Buns Adding Instruments and Sound Effects

Amy M. Burns

This past weekend officially started my summer projects! I love setting summer goals. Will I meet most of them? Probably not, unless the goal is to avoid the other goals I set! 🤣

However, my summer goals for this summer are:

  1. Spend time with my family.

  2. Relax and sleep more.

  3. Read one or two books about music and teaching.

  4. Go to Broadway and see a couple of shows at discounted rates.

  5. Create some classroom instrument arrangements for play-along videos.

  6. Work for Midnight Music and MusicFirst Elementary.

  7. Work every day on Duolingo learning Spanish.

  8. Exercise daily.

  9. Clean out more of the basement for my girls to use.

  10. Powerwash the house and stain the deck.

  11. Go on vacation!!

These are in no particular order. Last night, I started #4 and saw The Outsiders, which was amazing! And today, I am working on #5: Create some classroom instrument arrangements for play-along videos. This play-along includes recorders, boomwhackers, classroom instruments, xylophones, metallophones, and sound effects (I used Star Wars sound effects in Flat!). These can be substituted for any instruments you have access to.

Tip: If the video is too busy, use the Soundslice link to change the view of the video.

Hot Cross Bag

The title should be Hot Cross Buns, but I wanted to have some fun with this. I have included various ways to teach this. The video shows the notes on the staff using boomwhacker colors and traditional notation. I used Soundslice to create the scrolling notation. I also created the manipulatives to review everything in the video.

Manipulatives

The Manipulatives include 11 slides to assist with teaching the song.

  • Slide 1 - Title slide

  • Slides 2, 3, 4 - Review the recorder fingerings

  • Slide 5 - Recorder and Boomwhacker notation of the melody with note names

  • Slide 6 - Traditional notation of the melody

  • Slide 7 - Glockenspiels, SX/AX/SM/AM, and BX/BM parts

  • Slide 8 - Glockenspiel only (includes various ways to count a whole note)

  • Slide 9 - SX/AX/SM/AM only

  • Slide 10 - BX/BM only

  • Slide 11 - Sound effects part with the score

  • Slide 12 - Sound effects part with just the rhythm pattern

  • Slide 13 - YouTube link to the video

  • Slide 14 - Soundslice link to the video

I organized the manipulatives like this so that you have options on how best to use them with your students in your music class. They are available as a forced copy of Google Slides or through this Canva link.

Coming Soon!

Want to learn more about Soundslice?

Try Midnight Music’s 5-day challenge beginning this week that will teach you how to use Soundslice to create play-along videos!