Cyber Monday Music Sale!

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Cyber Monday Music Sale

While I’m not a fan of Black Friday, I must admit that I love Cyber Monday (its online counterpart). You’ve no doubt seen sales and deals popping up all over the internet, and Listen & Learn Music is no exception.

Starting now through Friday, all of my digital downloads are 50% off. That includes individual songs and entire albums. All you have to do is enter the code yay50 at checkout (you can pay using a credit card or PayPal).

Cyber Monday Music Sale (Albums)

These are only just a few of the albums up for grabs — there are almost 40 to choose from. I’ve written songs on just about every topic, so now is the time to stock up. Remember, the code is yay50 and here’s the link. Happy shopping!

Adapted “Rhythm of Love” Lyrics & Chords

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Plain White T's Rhythm of Love

I covered this song in yesterday’s “Sunday Singalong” video, and have been getting requests for my version of it ever since.  What a compliment!  So for those of you who want to use it with your own students or just for fun, I’ve got you covered.

Click below for a free download of my adapted lyrics, plus the chords.  Please note that when I sing and play it, I capo the 2nd fret.

Lead Sheet Download: Rhythm of Love

One of my Twitter friends reminded me how great it would sound on the ukulele, so I’m going to play around with that next. Oh, and feel free to adapt the lyrics further if you’d like. I hope you have as much fun with this song as I do!

Free “Feelings” Visual Aide Download

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Girl Showing Love

I love to sing The Feelings in My Heart around this time of year, what with so much talk about Valentine’s Day, hearts, and love.  This is one of my favorite Listen & Learn songs — it’s even featured on my studio album.

And that leads me to the highlight of this post: a visual aide download to go along with the song. I like to give my students an example of each emotion as it is mentioned in the song, and while in the past I’ve used illustrations, this year I wanted to use stock pictures of real children to which they could better relate.

Visual Aide Download: The Feelings in My Heart

As described in the PDF download above, I laminated the pictures, cut them out, and single-hole punched them so that I could keep them together with a binder ring. They were a hit when I used them for the first time yesterday afternoon with a group of young music therapy students. We used sign language for each emotion as we looked at the pictures during the song — talk about a multi-sensory experience!

Here’s the full song and lyrics, as well as the instrumental version.  I hope you can make use of this visual aide (and if so, please let me know in the comments how you plan to do so).

Conference Week is Here!

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Music Therapy Presentation Download

Before I go to Cleveland for the AMTA national conference, I’m headed to the suburbs of Chicago where I’ll be presenting at the 2010 Conference on Best Practices for Nonpublic Special Education Programs.  Now say that 10 times fast :)

This will be my second year in a row attending and presenting at this conference, and I’m very excited to be returning.  Last year, I had a full room of educators and administrators who were more than happy to participate and ask questions; I’m hoping for a similar experience this afternoon.

Interested in what I’ll be talking about in my presentation?  Click below for a PDF version of my PowerPoint.

Download: Music Therapy for Learning & Achieving

I’ll also be posting materials from my presentation at the AMTA conference, so be sure to come back again for those. It’s going to be an exciting, challenging, exhausting, and wonderful week of music therapy — here we go!

Thanksgiving Goodies: Song + Visual Aide

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There’s a certain song I look forward to singing as soon as the leaves start turning colors, but I always hold out until November. The first line goes like this:

“On the first day of Thanksgiving, this is what I ate: some turkey on my plate.”

There are 9 more verses where that came from, all of which many of my students know by heart.  Not surprising, considering this is the 3rd year in a row I’ve sung this song with them during the month of November.  Even my fellow coworkers were asking about the 10 Days of Thanksgiving song way back in September.

10-days-thanksgiving-song-visual-aideMy original recording is flying off the virtual shelves of Songs For Teaching, but I decided to give both the song and the visual aide (a 10-page PDF with pictures and lyrics for each day) that goes with it a facelift.  I was so happy with the results that I wanted to make both available to you, as well as the instrumental version of the song.  All three of these downloads, plus the full lyrics and chords, are available in a single album: 10 Days of Thanksgiving.

I use the visual aide two ways: 1) as a flip-book while I sing the song with one student or a small group, and 2) as individual pages that I pass out to a larger group for students to take turns holding up as their verse is sung.  The song is great fun either way!  Download it today for $6.00 and start using it with your own students in these next few weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

Click here to listen, learn more, and get your copy!