Imperial March from Star Wars | Chromatic Boomwhackers!

May the 4th be with you! Happy Star Wars Day! This is my first attempt at chromatic boomwhackers. I'm interested to see if students can track their color with all of the similarities going on. I'd love your feedback! If you enjoyed this video, consider buying me a coffee! www.buymeacoff...

[@rachelmoxley7367]

I have used your videos since I went from band to elementary music back in 2020, but this is my first comment. I've ALWAYS loved your materials so much but this one hits different. My kids LOVE this! The chromatic tones are such a fun and challenging exercise that the students can catch onto really easily since they recognize the melody. Thank you for helping make my music classes so engaging.

[@SwicksClassroom]

@@rachelmoxley7367 You're so awesome!

[@andrewarriaga5700]

Students are successfully tracking their parts as young as Pre-Kindergarten, occasionally mistakes are made, but they are learning to refer to the Boomwhackers by note name rather than color. This is a great addition to your library. Thank you!

[@noelanderson3376]

This was perfect for having some fun at the end of the school year! I loved that John Williams was conducting and the students could see the orchestra playing. That was brilliant! I'd love to see more like this. A huge hit with my middle school music students.

[@SwicksClassroom]

Thank you! Have you seen my Interstellar video? Very similar!

[@IAmNotARobot-1]

Love how the way you teach using this DDR like format. Pretty cool if you ask me.

[@targudeh2698]

I had to play it 2 times. First G# then F# and G! Awesome job 🎉

[@christinagillingham6366]

This is incredible work. My goodness, thank you for the work and the orchestral background. My students LOVED watching Williams conduct them :o)... definitely buying you a coffee!! Thank you so much!

[@SwicksClassroom]

Thank you very much!

[@yung-soonnaill9278]

I love your boomwhacker videos! If you are ever bored :) lol and need a new project - a Chordal Imperial March would be pretty awesome! I would love to have Melody vs Harmony concept with this! Thank you for sharing your amazing ideas and hardwork!

[@williammarrin1920]

My students were able to track the chromatics! They said that having the letters in a darker shade really helped.

[@SwicksClassroom]

I'm so grateful to hear that! My next idea was to put the accidentals in a group on the side but class have been doing okay with this setup.

[@nichole634]

Is that John Williams conducting?!?

[@SwicksClassroom]

YES

[@kendallparrett4719]

There's a whole series of him conducting a lot of this own music on youtube

[@jellypanda7461]

Yep, he conducted most of the Starwars music I think.