Introduction
This song is about things that fly up and down.
What kinds of things do that?
Even the notes fly up and down in this song! Watch as the quarter notes step up and down to make the melody.
Sing, dance, play and FLY!
Note to grown-ups:
This song as well as the first few in book 1 are meant to demonstrate musical ideas while allowing the children to relate to those ideas using their current knowledge and experience. Allow them to move and dance and experience the movement of notes and the melody in whatever way makes sense for them. It’s all about enjoyment!
Listen
The Lesson
At The Piano
Sheet Music
Don’t forget that the notes and finger numbers and words and motions of this song down and up all at the same time.
This song is played by the RIGHT hand. That’s the one on this side:
You can tell because the note stems are pointing up and they are in front of the G clef.