Octopus Band Maiden Voyage Teachers Guide

Transform your classroom with music from around the world, arranged for Jumbie Jam, ukulele, and Djembe.   The Octopus Band invites you to journey with us from Portugal to Hawaii, exploring music for steel drum, ukulele, and djembe.  The arrangements in this book are designed as a starting point for a classroom ensemble preK-8, but we hope that you will be inspired to incorporate these ideas into your classroom or small group setting in different ways.  The Jumbie Jam, the Octopus Ukulele, and the Slap Djembe would like you to know that “we play nice together”, but we also “play nice” with others in any musical setting. The Octopus Band Teacher’s Resource guide was inspired by an imagined journey from Portugal to Hawaii, and contains 10 tunes from different countries along the way.  Each arrangement includes the score for the melody with chord symbols, chord diagrams for Jumbie Jam and ukulele, and two suggested strum patterns and drum rhythms to accompany the melody.  There is also a