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• many listeners know well because many people have recorded them,


• and because of this, these songs have become important in our his- tory.


These songs are known as “Standards.” Since jazz is a style that was born in America, there are American jazz stan- dards, blues standards, popular standards. And it would be impossible to have an exact list of them. The list can change for different periods of time in our history. For instance, from about 1930 to around 1950 or so the most recorded song was “St. Louis Blues” by W.C. Handy. But today it’s become the song “Body and Soul” by Johnny Green.


Listen: St. Louis Blues https://youtu.be/ EkOcO5HXbk8


Listen: Body and Soul piano with printed moving score https://youtu.be/ r9nz6c_9MMg


Body and Soul Tony Bennett/ Amy Winehouse https://youtu. be/_OFMkCeP6ok


Body and Soul Oscar Peterson piano with printed moving score https://youtu.be/_e25p_-5w5M


3. You’re invited to stand and be the performer! Let’s learn some tap. We’ll learn a few steps and then you can make up your own dance to tap your way down your sunny street.


You don’t need special shoes to try the steps; wear your regular shoes and make some noise. Hands on hips!


• The first thing we’ll do is tap our right toes to the front 8 times, then move them to the right side, tap- ping seven times and step your right foot in place. Repeat on the left side. Try to make your ankle very flexible and floppy and loose! (32 counts) (practice first at half time, then speed them up!)


• Step 2 “Shuffle”: (As you take the last step onto the left foot) Lift the right ready to do shuffle: brush the right toes forward, brush


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them back, and step on the right (“brush front, back, down”). Lift the left.


Repeat on the left (“brush front, back, down”). Lift the right. (8 counts)


Repeat step 2 on both sides (total -16 counts)


• Step 3: Walk forward 4 steps be- ginning with the right foot. Walk backward 4 steps beginning with the right foot. (When this is com- fortable for students, change the “step” to “toe-heel”...hence, right toe heel, left toe heel, right toe heel, left toe heel moving forward and back.) (16 counts)


Variations: the toe heels can also travel to the right and left, but you must cross the foot over the front to be able to make them travel, or the toe heels can be done using all 16 counts of them to travel in a circle around yourself.


Challenge: circle to the right, be- ginning on right foot for 8 counts, reverse circle to left, also begin- ning on right foot.


4. Music: https://youtu.be/Il25S7FtKd8


Suggested practice: Count out 32 beats of introduction as 12345678/22345678/ 32345678/42345678 Explain that this is a much easier way of counting 4 sets of 8 for dancers than trying to count to 32…


1. Step one/ without music, half time, then with music. Repeat without music sped up, then with music.


2. Step 2/ without music, with music


3. Step 1/Step 2 without music, then with music


4. Step 3 without music


5. Add steps 1 and 2 when step 3 is looking solid!


*watch and use as informal, or formative assessment...are students picking it up? In the classroom they can do this with you in spaced lines. Virtually they can try on their own.


45 All 4 steps spoken prompts:


1. Tap front, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Tap right 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, step Tap front 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Tap left 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, step


2. Front back down or Shuf-fle step (R) Front back down or Shuf-fle step (L) Front back down or Shuf-fle step (R) Front back down or Shuf-fle step (L)


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