Beginning Busy Ringers
First lessons for the younger beginning ringer
by Kirtsy Mitchell
Handbell - Sheet Music

Item Number: 17668769
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Handbells (3 octaves) - Level 1

SKU: LO.AG010

First lessons for the younger beginning ringer. Composed by Kirtsy Mitchell. Handbell collection. Christmas, General. Reproducible collection. American Guild of English Handbell Ringers #AG010. Published by American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (LO.AG010).

ISBN 9780979628016.

Reproducible - For teaching music with chimes or bells from the very beginning. 56 pages of music, exercises, teaching pages, puzzles and games, all reproducible for your bell choir.

  • Basic Terminology
  • Music Vocabulary
  • Ringing Rhythm (in 4/4 time)
  • Math and Measures (in 3/4 time)
  • Silence - Rest - Damp (in 4/4 time)
  • More Silence Ring and Damp (in 3/4 time)
  • Ring Together (ringing triads)
  • Color Rhythms (chords and rhythms)
  • Sharp Signs (triads with sharp bells)
  • Flat Signs (triads with flat bells)
  • America (stacked letter chords)
  • Yankee Doodle (stacked letter chords)
  • Old MacDonald (stacked letter chords)
  • If You're Ringing (stacked letter chords and repeat signs)
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (stacked letter chords and D.C. al Fine)
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (letter chords with violin/flute melody)
  • Silent Night and Away in a Manger (letter chords with violin/flute melody)
  • When Should You Damp a Sound
  • Ring Damp on Time
  • Damping (exercise game)
  • The Detective
  • Find Your Notes Pictures
  • Note Recognition Test
  • Caterpillar Crawl (whole notes)
  • Lazy Day (half notes)
  • Found My Notes
  • Quarters to Ring
  • Solo Time (note reading, introduce forte)
  • Wind Chimes (introduce LV)
  • Old MacDonald (with melody line)
  • March (introduce feel of eighth notes)
  • Silence (using rests; introduce piano, fermata, D.C. al Fine signs)
  • Long and Longer (whole and half notes)
  • Hippopotamus Dance (key signature)
  • Pizza Rizza
  • Table Damping
  • Moonlight (easy table damping and tower swing)
  • It's Hard to Get Up in the Morning (bell charts, shakes, martellato)
  • Your Turn My Turn
  • Processional in C
  • Yo Yo Waltz