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Flea and a fly in a flue, A©
Traditional tongue twister
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Tactics
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Listen to the performance track first.
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Practise speaking the tongue twister out loud to get your mouths working around all the words. Really focus on the diction.
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Use the performance track to help you learn the melody.
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Once you are confident singing the song in unison, try it as a round. Because it is written to a pentatonic (five-note) tine, you can sing it as a round in almost infinite parts. Start with a two-part round where the second group enters on ‘Said’ and then build to a four-part round with a group entering at each point on the songsheet that is marked with *.
Extended activities
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Why not put some actions to the words ‘flea’ (flee) and ‘fly’ (flew). Then try performing it silently with the actions.
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After you have learnt it thoroughly, just perform the ‘fl’ sounds. Keep the beat steady!
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It can go into 16 parts, all starting after one beat (eg. ‘A flea…’ ‘A flea…’ ‘A flea…’ etc). Try it – your singers will need a brilliant sense of pulse and lots of confidence!
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Try varying the starting pitch.
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Miss Shipway Report this comment
Posted 23rd Aug 2011 09:34
Is there a score for this one too?
Child Busk Report this comment
Posted 17th Feb 2011 05:00
this is a really good tung twister for children let them listen to it first and then teach it to them