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Boom Chicka Boom

Boom Chicka Boom is a call and echo chant ideally suited as a warm up or ice-breaker activity. It is accessible, quick to learn and can be creatively adapted. The chant develops basic musical and PSHE skills whilst allowing children to have fun exploring their voices.

Traditional, arranged by Alexander L’Estrange

Used by permission of Sing for Pleasure

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Boom Chicka Boom (performance track)

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Key stage KS1, KS2

Year group 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Subject Music, PSHE & Citizenship

SEN/Accessibility PRU activity

Copyright/Public domain (PD) Copyright songs (c)

Style Rap and Chant, Singing game

Musical format Unison, Call-and-response
- Boom Chicka Boom
- Boom Chicka Boom (notes and activities)

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Song Writer Biography

Alexander L’Estrange

Alexander L’Estrange (b.1974) is a fresh and exciting voice in choral music. With roots in the British choral tradition and a successful international career as a jazz musician and arranger, Alexander has been described by composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall as ‘the ideal 21st-century musician’, an accolade acknowledging not just his outstanding musicianship but also his huge versatility. His original compositions include Lute-Book Lullaby, On Eagles’ Wings, Prayers for Peace, Love’s Philosophy and Zimbe!, a 40-minute, African-inspired cantata for SATB chorus, children’s choir and jazz quintet, commissioned by Dorking Choral Society and premiered in November 2008 and which brought together performers young and old from across the local community.
Publication information

Book 1 of Sing for Pleasure’s Junior Song Book Series

Edited by Ken Lee & James Wild
Sing for Pleasure

The chant Boom Chicka Boom is the title song in Book 1 of Sing for Pleasure’s Junior Song Book series - a book of rounds, fun-songs and starters for Key Stage 2.
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Audio information

The audio track was recorded specially for the Sing Up programme by Farnham Youth Choir and the Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford, mixed and mastered by Nic Rowley at Vandborg studios.

Copyright information

All copyright music in the Sing Up programme is used by permission. The songwriters and/or copyright holders have been remunerated under due licensing arrangements. Find out more about copyright by visiting the UK Music and Sound Rights websites.

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Ms Trollope Report this comment

Posted 23rd Mar 2012 09:19

I work as a teaching assistant in a specialist school for pupils with Autistic Spectrum conditions. Some of our pupils find it really difficult to understand or express emotions. I work in a year 5/6 class also lead singing club and choir and I have adapted this chant to teach emotion expressions such as sad, happy, crying, laughing, angry, shy, worried and the children seemed to learn really quickly. Some of our children can now lead this song with confidence and are now sharing their own ideas to adapt voice types etc. We also use this to warm up before singing.

Cherrygrove Winstanley Report this comment

Posted 2nd Mar 2012 07:27

i DID THIS WIV THE YEAR 5 THEY LUVED IT SOZ ABOUT THE CAPS

Mr Holland Report this comment

Posted 14th Feb 2012 12:07

I got this song up on sing up,I didn't know it at first,but then when I heard it I started to realize that I had already done the song with Y4,Y5 and Y6,so I have just done it again with Y5's

Miss Lema Report this comment

Posted 27th Oct 2011 04:28

I used this song recently with Y2 and we really enjoyed it a lot :) I encouraged boys to find some more options of singing the song and their ideas were great!!! Some ideas I remember: sing like old people, like aliens, feeling tired or angry, and so on.

Ms Khan Report this comment

Posted 6th Oct 2011 09:28

my children luv this

Miss Harris Report this comment

Posted 15th Nov 2009 11:36

There are further extensions to this song which are great for drama warm ups. Using different voices (posh, witches etc). There is also a space and cleanin version that the children find really funny.

Mrs Haining Report this comment

Posted 3rd Nov 2009 11:19

We think this song rocks! We really enjoyed it Year 4

Miss Fountain Report this comment

Posted 3rd Nov 2009 07:09

this song was taught to me when i was a little girl

Miss Campbell Report this comment

Posted 2nd Nov 2009 07:45

this song is soooooooo cool my teacher Mrs Dorr taught me it i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ms Robson Report this comment

Posted 15th Oct 2009 03:18

I use a version of this with an added lyric, 'I said a ' boom a chick a boom, to just add to the mood, we also use a finger click pulse and actions to match each new verse. Our last line is 'real quiet, real loud etc. Some favourite versions are italiano, real robotic and we finish with real cool, no way! i've used this with every age in primary school and use it with every group of student teachers that I teach. Its a good way to experience and explore all of the musical elements in one go. A child taught this to me 20 year ago. Chris Robson MMU

Mr Penman Report this comment

Posted 1st Oct 2009 01:34

My Choir love this, and we use every week as a warm up excersise for choir practice.

Mrs Morrison Report this comment

Posted 23rd Sep 2009 11:44

I used this very successfully with Y6. I had been sceptical as to their response but was pleasantly surprised at how much they enjoyed it AND participated!

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