Pond Party - Percussion Ensemble Music
Frogs are important to our environment. As tadpoles they feed on algae, which helps to keep the water clean. Once full-grown frogs feed on lots of insects, which helps to control bug populations.
Three levels to Pond Party
Pond Party has three levels, Easy, Intermediate and Advance. Easy level is a wonderful way to introduce students to different timbre such as wood, shaker, bell sounds with the option of hand drumming. Intermediate and Advance levels are more complex arrangements and hand drumming ensemble parts and solos.
Pond Party helps students explore and create rhythmical dialog that captures imagination, increase listening skills, build teamwork, enhance collaboration and stimulate improvisation.
Colourful Cards for Students
This package includes the score for teacher/conductor plus fun colourful cards for student groups, making reading music an exciting and inspiring way to learn.
How to use Pond Party cards? Invite 6 students to choose from either blue, green, yellow or red pack of cards. Get them in groups (colour coded) each card has a unique rhythm on a particular percussion instrument. No matter what card is chosen all rhythms dialog with one another beautifully. Get students to be creative, invite them to make their own arrangement by choosing colour sections. For example:
- Introduction - yellow cards (easy, intermediate & advance)
- Verse - blue cards (easy, intermediate & advance)
- Chorus – green cards (easy, intermediate & advance)
- Break - red cards (easy, intermediate & advance)
- Drum solos and breaks – red cards (intermediate & advance)
- Bridge – purple cards (intermediate & advance)
Facilitator Cards – Rhythm Games
A unique and exclusive part of this package comes with Peta Minter’s Pond Party Facilitator Cards that include lots of fun rhythm games a powerful tool that encourage students to:
- improvise and create their own group song
- explore dynamics and timbre sounds
- connect creatively with others in the group
- build leadership skills by facilitating the ensemble
- improve listening skills
- cultivate orchestration skills
- gain confidence for self-expression
- promote mindfulness nurturing student’s wellbeing
- forge deeper connection to making music with others
Inspire student’s musicality with Boomwhackers
Boomwhackers are a great way to introduce students to tuned percussion using the C pentatonic scale (no mistakes). This package includes a lovely rhythmical Boomwhacker song arrangement for students to explore melody and harmony with Pond Party. Arrangement comes as score and part of Facilitator Cards.
Deepen Rhythm with Body and Vocal Percussion Cards
Add some more creativity for your students with a compilation of Body Percussion and cards included in the exclusive Facilitator Cards, using:
Clap – Click – Lap Down – Lap Up – Chest – Step
Help develop a deeper sense of rhythm and improvisation with Vocal Percussion, included in the exclusive Pond Party Facilitator Cards.
Play-Along Music
The download includes all music play-along tracks to help students build rhythm skills.
Bonus - Sound Story Cards
Use images to create a sound story. Students of all ages enjoy using images to create themes and scenes using sounds. Special bonus, comes with 32 pictures.
The Advance versions will be available after soon.
Pond Party Package
Pond Party is a rhythmical and groovy original percussion piece for classroom music ensemble.
Pond Party song is part of Peta’s series of environmental themes, bringing awareness to our important echo system.
"On my long walks and mountain bike riding in the bush I'd come across small ponds. Ponds fascinate me, they are teaming with life and energy. The vibrant and rhythmical sounds of frogs, insects and surrounding birdlife always inspire me to connect with nature.
One day I came across a frog using a little tin can to amplify his voice. The dialog between the life in this pond was so rhythmical."
About
- Players: 8+
- Duration: 2 to 10 minutes (allow improvisation and lots of fun creativity)
- Difficulty: Easy, Intermediate and Advance
- Composer: Peta Minter
Instrumentation
- Two toned guiro
- Vibraslap
- Agogo bell
- Shaker
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Djembe (optional easy)
- Toms (Intermediate & Advance)