Presenting Mrs. Hollaran's 6th grade class

After the students learned the proper techniques to play boomwhackers (you can check out the boomwhacker introduction here) the students took the first step towards composing their own boomwhacker melodies.

 The students are still learning how to read a 5 line staff. This is the first step in learning to read/write music. By using this grid they can add the ta, titi, and tikatika notation to write the music. The different colors indicate which boomwhacker is playing at what time.  When there are multiple colors in one box, than multiple boomwhackers are playing at the same time.  This also gets the students ready to ready music, they read music the same as reading a book, from left to right.

This was one group's composition in Mrs. Hallaran's 6th grade class. The students had to compose the music, practice the music together, and perform it for the class in a boomwhacker recital!

Here is the very first boomwhacker performance by these wonderful students!