Strings: Tuning Your Instrument

Here is a video to help you tune your instrument at home. Remember, be very careful when tuning!

Tuning apps:

Accent on Achievement Practice Tracks

Every Accent on Achievement comes with a CD that the students can practice along with. Just in case (like me) you don't have a CD player, here is a link to all the tracks online: https://okmmusic.weebly.com/method-book-practice-tracks.html

Snake Charmer

Here is the bass line for Snake Charmer (pg. 16). Each - equals one beat. (Don't forget, there's no chord on the first pick-up.)

D---- 
D- A- D--
D----
G----
D----
D- A- D--

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Here's another song by ear!

"Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb.
Mary had a little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow."

Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi
Re Re Re, Mi So So
Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi
Mi Re Re Mi Re Do

GO Tell Aunt Rhody

Learn this American by ear! The words and solfege are below:

"Go tell Aunt Rhody,
Go tell Aunt Rhody,
Go tell Aunt Rhody,
The old grey goose is dead."

Mi Mi Re Do Do
Re Re Fa Mi Re Do
So So Fa Mi Mi
Mi Re Do Re Mi Do

Flute

Hot Cross Buns
Au Claire de la Lune
Turkey Blues: Bb-C-D version
Donkey Round

New Note: Eb and F
Shoo Fly

New Note: A
Eagle Summit March

Clarinet

Shoo Fly

New note: B
Surprise Symphony

Hint: Watch out for the tricky rhythms in the Variation.

Saxophone

Shoo Fly

New note: F#
Surprise Symphony

Hint: Watch out for the tricky rhythms in the Variation.

Trumpet

Bile Them Cabbage Down
Shoo Fly
Eagle Summit March

Baritone Horn

Au Claire de la Lune
Donkey Round
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Shoo Fly

Trombone

Shoo Fly
Eagle Summit March