https://meettheminmusic.com/tonal_concepts/chant/ Recent content in Chant on Meet Them in Music Hugo en-us Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:18:47 -0400 https://meettheminmusic.com/songs/pin-pin-jarabin/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:50:00 -0400 https://meettheminmusic.com/songs/pin-pin-jarabin/ <p>Students sit in a circle. One student is the chicken. The chicken pretends to peck at every person in the circle to the beat. <em>The chicken has to peck themselves, too!</em> Whoever the chicken is pecking at on the last beat is out. Keep going until there is only one person left in the group.</p> <p>Each turn, the next person in the circle gets to be the chicken.</p> <div class="callout"> <p class="callout-title">Teaching Tip</p> To make sure the game stays as fair as possible, whoever gets out first gets to be the first chicken in the next round. </div> https://meettheminmusic.com/songs/hoppity/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:20:00 -0400 https://meettheminmusic.com/songs/hoppity/ <p>I was looking for a nice little triple feel poem to build a chant around and discovered this nice poem by A.A. Milne. This is split into 3 separate parts (Vocal, Shaker, and Drum) and each has a different challenge.:</p> <ul> <li>The phrase alignment on the vocals is nearly a tongue twister at the end.</li> <li>The percussion parts introduce quarter-eighth rhythms not present in the vocal part.</li> <li>The drum part is the more challenging percussion part. Give it to your kids who are ready for this challenge.</li> </ul> <p><strong>SEL Discussion:</strong></p>