Listen, People, to My Chant

By Andy Mullen

If you're like me, singing and chanting in class is difficult these days. I need tracks that I can use so that students can clearly hear me and I can focus on engaging them.

Here is a Tune for Teaching that challenges students to "be different" and engage in the skill of Improvisation. Their charge is to listen to the pattern and chant a different four (and then eight!) macrobeat pattern using rhythm solfege.

This song is from my book Fifty Tunes for Teaching. The notation appears below.

Listen People to My Chant 1 - Listen, People, to My Chant

50 Tunes for Teaching - Listen, People, to My Chant

Fifty Tunes for Teaching

Check out this book which contains 50 new songs with and without words for use in the general music class. Sequenced according to Gordon's Music Learning Theory.

About the author Andy Mullen

Andy Mullen is a teacher, folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, recovering singer-songwriter, and lifelong learner. He has taught all levels of students in a number of subjects, and is currently a middle school general music and choir teacher in Burlington, Massachusetts. Mr Mullen holds Masters degrees in Music Education and School Administration, and serves on the faculty for the Gordon Institute of Music Learning (GIML) in Elementary General Music. He is the author of "MLT Any Music Teacher Can Du...De," "The Literate Musician" and "Fifty Tunes for Teaching," and the composer of the children's album, "Chucka Chucka Wawa."