FACE

by Teresa Jennings

Here's a short, simple, super easy song you can use to teach your students the names of the spaces of the treble clef. Okay, maybe you didn't really need a whole song to teach this. After all, how hard can it be to remember "face"? But we couldn't help ourselves. The use of the pertinent notes make a beautiful F major 7 chord, which was just crying out for some '50s-style doo-wop guys singing background licks. We used one singer for each, but if you use your own background vocalists, you can use more. (That's Karl singing bass, and John on the falsetto, by the way. Aren't they too silly?) We have two versions of the tracks to help you out as well. One has our fellas and the other doesn't. So you can choose what works best. Both of these have a tuning note and count-off in case you need them. The spoken "F, A, C, E" can also be one soloist for each, or groups, as you prefer.

Text is taken from Music K-8 magazine.