Framing options

Framing options

Option 1

The simple way to lead is to invite people to make up a line for the song whether they 'fill in the gap' in this chant:

"I went and found a...."

I suggest they use their time in that place to inspire a line...

For example... 

  • I went and found a stinging nettle...

  • I went and found a big badger set

  • I went and found a slope to run down

  • I went and found a rope to swing on

  • I went and found a hazel tree



Option 2

I tell people that I am now going to send them out to forage for some words, or lines, to add to the chant

"I went and found a...."

I invite them to go on a solo wander across the land and to return when (a certain time is reached... they hear they return call (and to stay within audible distance)... when the sun sets etc...).

As they wander they I ask them to remain as present as possible, to expand their senses, to be in the now, but bearing in mind that chant, so that when they return, they can call to mind some highlights from their time on the land and add them as lyrics to the chant, as their turn comes round when we gather and sing the song.

Natural Musicians facilitation training SET 1

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The opening piece

  • Welcome to the course
  • What is this Natural Musicians thingy?
  • Why did I make this course? A story from Scotland
  • The Natural Musicians concept, lineage and copyright
  • How did I get here? The influences of mouth music, beatboxing, stomp! and body percussion.
  • Chris Holland on Didge! - Tea's up!
  • Chris Holland playing Bathroom Dreamtime
  • Music of Playce: There are rhythms everywhere - how did I come up with some of these ideas?
  • About Listening, child's play and getting into the flow
  • The Spirit of Allowance and Now-ness
  • Songlines: Aboriginal Art and Storytelling

Opening Story and Song

  • Meet them where they are at.
  • The Rabbit's Tail Story.mp3
  • The Rabbits Tail.mp4
  • I am awake! I am alive!.mp4
  • I am awake, I am alive!.mp3

Welcome and Warm up

  • NM Welcome and warm-up wm.mp4

Name Drumming

  • What's this?
  • Name Drumming Layer Cake.mp4
  • Activity instructions from I love my World
  • Choosing the right spot - a few thoughts and tips.

Name and Plant form 'Wake and shake'

  • What's this?
  • Name and Plant Form Wake and Shake.mp4

Nature's Voices: A Found Sound Round

  • NM A Found Sound Round wm.mp4
  • What's this?

Stick Microphones

  • NM Stick MIcrophones wm.mp4

Musical Code and Clapping games

  • NM Natural Musical Code.mp4
  • NM Natural Notation more examples.mp4

How to make a Guiro/scraper

  • NM Making Guiros wm.mp4

I went and found a ....

  • "I went and found a..." About the song
  • NM I went and found a... WM.mp4
  • I went and found a....mp3
  • Framing options

Natural Picture Instruments

  • NM Natural Picture Instruments wm.mp4

Numbers in Nature

  • Numbers in nature .mp4

Natural Times Tables

  • Natural Times Tables .mov
  • Nature times tables teachers advice n reflections.mp4

Natural Notation Compositions

  • Natural Compositions.mov
  • Natural Notation more examples.mp4

Melodic Connections

  • NM Melodic Connections wm.mp4

Call and response - a history and a few ideas

  • Read this first please
  • The neuroscience of singing and why it's good for us
  • Possibly the first Arabic style call and response songs I heard
  • A history of call and response songs (US perspective)
  • Turkeys gobbling call and response
  • How to lead Call and Response for Drum Circles and Health Rhythms
  • A Funeral in Ghana: Call and Response with Xylophone Music (Wa, Upper West Region)
  • Call and response -Clapping, Voice and Body percussion warm ups
  • FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg
  • 40 call and response songs
  • An Arabic Chant That Means Welcome
  • علي جاسم ومحمود التركي ومصطفى العبدالله - تعال (حصرياً) | 2018 | Jassim & Alturky & Al-Abdullah
  • Listening in Nature blog about chicadees... or as we call them in UK tits or titmice

Reviewing activity/song

  • Walking in the woods.mp4

Found Sound Round / Mouth Music Blessing

  • NM Found Sound Round mouth music blessing wm.mp4

Certificate and feedback

  • Certificate Natural Musicians.pdf