Books

The Richards’ Modified Tuning for Adapted Guitar: An Approach to Guitar Instruction for Music Therapists and Music Educators

This comprehensive book outlines how to use the Richards’ Modified Tuning (an alternate tuning designed for students with special needs) and teach basic and extended chords step by step.  Most chords can be executed with one or two fingers. How to play simplified pentatonic scales and some common modes are also covered.  Also included: song suggestions for each chord, chord reference chart, skill stand to organize learning, fretboard chart, and blank lesson forms.  Now available for order for $25.00.

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Songs for School Days Volume 2

Targeted Skill Areas include: Greetings and closings, social, English, math, money, labeling, daily living, science, choices, social studies, leisure, relaxation, coping skills, sequencing, and self-management.

Songs include: With Friends Like Us, Busy Day, Can You Find a Circle?, Dime and Nickel Chant, Family Tree, Fire Safety, Getting to Know You, Grapes, Ice Cream Flavors, The Iroquois, It’s Cold Outside, Let the Music Play, Mad, Many Strawberries, Measure Up, Move Up to the Next Dollar, My Song, My Zip Code, 9 Planets, Our President, Pattern of the Leaves, Take a Break, 3 Countries in North American, What Do You Like To Do?, Homeward Bound

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Songs for School Days

Targeted Skill Areas include: social studies, letters, money, English, sequencing, calendar, animals, telling time, greetings, direction following, math, manners, science, opposites, foods, weather, colors, community signs, community workers, and memory skills.

Songs include: Hello To You and Everyone!, Alphabet Train, Candy Store, Comparative Adjectives, Dinosaur Bones, Easter Eggs, Ev’ry Day of the Week, Farm Chant, Follow Me, The Hands of the Clock, Happy, Happy New Year!, Hello Tuesday, Hide the Shaker, How Many Fishes?, I Will Try to Say “Thank You”, Jungle Chant, Just Keep Pumping On, Ocean Chant, Sailing, The Seven Continents, Snowman, Some Things are Different, Take a Bite, Tell Me the Weather, What Color Do I See?, When Adding 1, While I Was Walking Down the Street, Who Is It?, Writing Fractions, It’s Time To Go.

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Time for Music with Children

Includes 25 original songs and musical activities for elementary and middle school aged children. All for only $15.00.

Song themes include: Songs for Starting Out, Songs for the Seasons, Songs for Movement, Songs for Orff-Schulwerk, Songs for the Classroom, Songs for Stories, and Songs for Saying Goodbye.

Songs include: Green Alligator, New Day, Tell Me Your Name, Mr. Groundhog, Let’s Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Happy Mother’s Day, Graduation Song, Music of the Season, Season of Love, Magic Shoes, March of the Elephants, If I Feel Alright, Jammin’ Jungle, Welcome to the Big Top!, An Irish Blessing, When the Lights Go Out in Texas, The Clock Shop, The Big Hand Keeps Moving, Count Up!, Where Have All the Colors Gone?, One Fish, Two Fish, Hand, Hand, Finger, Thumb, Shalom, See You Later, Alligator, It’s Our Last Song.

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Time for Music Volume 1

Includes 20 songs for all ages. All for only $15.00.

Songs themes include: openings, closings, holiday, Orff-Schulwerk, movement, and instrument play.

Songs included: Green Alligator, New Day, We’re Going Rockin’, Mr. Groundhog, Music of the Season, Let’s Celebrate Independence Day, Unity, Magic Shoes, French-fry Blues, Rabbit in the Moon, Song of the Coyote, Ghosts, Apple Pie, Colors of the World, Grizzly Bear, Rock and Roll it!, Funny Face, Recorder Rock, Sing Day-O, It’s Time To Say Goodbye.

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