5 Pop Grooves for Orff Ensemble

Pop-inspired, full of possibilities, and fun to play, these five original grooves for Orff ensemble serve as a starting place to foster creativity with students. Each piece can be performed as is or adapted for your specific purposes, allowing space for improvisation, original lyrics, rearrangement, and more. The musical ideas are derived from pop music, with each melody beginning in a simple rhythmic form and iterating to a fully realized melodic idea. These iterations illuminate motivic development and provide a step-by-step approach to advanced concepts such as ties and syncopations. Students are prompted with directions and colors to gradually add complexity. Each arrangement includes a full score and individual parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, alto glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, bass xylophone, contrabass bar, shaker, bongos, and congas. The digital version includes the full score and parts as a PDF as well as MP3 MIDI recordings and a link to a YouTube score video for each piece. Get your students moving and grooving with these original pieces!