The Flying Jazz Kittens Volume 1

The Flying Jazz Kittens Vol. 1 is a general music jazz book and CD. The activities in this book will introduce the unique rhythmic feel of jazz to young music students using fun games, simple percussion instruments and scat words. Fun, kid-friendly lyrics are used to teach classic jazz melodies and provide opportunities for singing, playing and improvising simple melodies and phrases. Vol. 1 also includes blues chord progression maps, printed melodies and lyrics, chord & scale suggestions, and scat words to copy and laminate for classroom use. Vol. 1 CD includes jazz trio (piano, string bass, drums) tracks with and without vocals (female) in two keys for each blues song, as well as open blues tracks in the keys of B, C, E & G to work with classroom xylophones, recorders, beginning band, and young vocal ranges.