#3 Practice Pages!

Youre becoming a superstar at BAG or F#ED. Take a look at the bottom warmups and
songs. Practice the following BAG songs! Also, use the practice strategies to help you to
improve on the songs!

1) Read the rhythm out loud

2) Play only the rhythm on an open
note
3) Read the notes out loud
4) Finger the notes silently
5) Play the notes and the rhythm
slowly

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Hot cross buns are a sweet roll with a cross of white icing
on the top. The song Hot Cross Buns is an English street
vendors song - it would have been sung by a person
selling hot cross buns in the street. Many kinds of food
used to be sold in this way - the person welling something
would sing about what he/she had for sale - hot cross
buns and how much they cost - one-a-penny, two-apenny.
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"Merrily We Roll Along" is an English sea chantey. A chantey is a work song sung by
sailors. The sailors would sing the song as they worked. Other chanteys were ballads songs that told stories about the adventurous life of the sailors on the sea. Stories told in
the ballads might be about famous shipwrecks, faraway places, or stories about catching
whales.