Junior

If you have attended a workshop with Doug Goodkin, you have probably experienced Keith Terry’s body percussion.  Keith Terry has created a series of body percussion patterns Doug calls 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Pictures of the patterns can be found at: http://www.crosspulse.com/pdfs/Part1.pdf  and there are two videos of Keith Terry on the Body Percussion Page.

These patterns can be used with the picture book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems published by Walker Books Ltd.).  In the middle of the book there are two pages with a number of phrases on them: “I’ll be your best friend.” “No Fair!” “How about I give you five bucks?” “It’s just a bus.” “I have dreams you know.”

These phrases fit nicely with Keith Terry’s body percussion patterns. You may need to add an extra stomp - some of the phrases have an even number of syllables.  Students love to say the phrases and then use the body percussion. 

A rondo can be created by using the phrases and connecting them with a “B” section borrowed from the Shuffle Demons’ song “Spadina Bus”: “I want confirmation of mytransportation to my destination.”