Coral Reef
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Swimming Down and Up

Introduction

Coral Reef

This is your first song!  How exciting!

This song is about things that swim down and up. Can you think of some things that swim down and up?

Just like the things that swim down and up in the water, the notes in this song go down and up too.

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 LEFT hand.  That’s the one on this side:

You can tell because the note stems are pointing down and they are in front of the F clef.

Enjoyment