Musical Analysis

- The song is 8 measures in 6/8 time

- The song is in G Major
- It uses dotted quarter notes, quarter notes and eighth notes in the rhythm shown above
- The solfege for the song is Do for measures 1, 3, 5, and 7
- Measures 2, and 6 are Re, Mi
- Measures 4, and 8 are La, Sol
- The pitches are G, G, G, G, G, A, B, G, G, G, G, G, E, D, for measures 1-4
- The pitches for measures 5-8 are G, G, G, G, A, B, G, G, E, D,
- The song does not jump an interval more than a third

Educational Benefits

- The song is great to prepare during class if you need something quick and engaging.
- It allows the student to go up and down in their range.
- The song is easily interchangeable with any major key given to really help expand range
by going up or down into any key.
- You can add in fun movements to give the kids some more energy.
- You can give the kids to pretend to jump over the “Ocean” a big jump, and the “Sea” a
smaller jump
- Then they can pretend to catch a “bird”