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- Page 1 Play It Today! Dood & Toot FREE DOWNLOAD METHOD BOOK BACKING TRACKS & VIDEOS www.nuvo-instrumental.com...
- Page 2 Dropbox folder or on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NuvoInstrumental Don’t forget that NUVO instruments are pitched in the key of C (concert pitch). This makes it easy to add other instruments like piano, guitar and ukulele to create a mixed ensemble.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Introducing Time Signatures Introducing the Dotted Quarter Note Playing Staccato First and Second Endings Introducing Ties Congratulations! - Play It Today Certificate Dood Fingering Chart Toot Fingering Chart Copyright © 2016 Nuvo Instrumental (Asia) Ltd. All rights reserved. 2023 Edition. - Page 4 Orff instruments. Teacher Tips You don’t have to be a woodwind specialist to have fun teaching NUVO instruments. Check out our new WindStars curriculum, where you can find games and activities to engage classes of all sizes regardless of your own musical ability.
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Page 5: Introducing The Dood
Dood & Too Introducing the Dood VIDEO - Introducing the D Your Dood is ready to play straight from the case. Below are all the parts of the Dood with their names labelled. The mouthpiece cap keeps the reed safe between practice sessions. Make sure you remove the mouthpiece cap BEFORE trying to make your first sound. - Page 6 Changing the Reeds: If using NUVO synthetic reeds, you will notice there is a rib on the back of the reed that fits into the groove on the mouthpiece. If using a cane reed, make sure it is centered and positioned level with the mouthpiece tip.
- Page 7 Dood & Too Introducing the Toot VIDEO - Introducing the Toot Your Toot is ready to play straight from the case, look at the picture below which has the different parts labelled. Headjoint Firstnote Lip Plate Right Hand Keys Left Hand Keys Left Hand Thumb Key Standard Lip Plate...
- Page 8 Dood & Too Your Toot comes fitted with the Firstnote lip plate; it is similar to a recorder mouthpiece and will enable you to get a sound straight away, so you only have to think about playing music! Standard Lip Plate Firstnote Lip Plate In your Toot case you will also find another lip plate which is more like a standard flute lip plate.
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Page 9: Holding The Dood And Toot
Dood & Too Holding the Dood and Toot There is so much to focus on when students are trying to create their first sound. We suggest holding the instruments as shown below, while exploring embouchure and basic rhythm excercises. Hand Position for First Sounds The Dood and the Toot may look quite different, but the hand placement is very similar. -
Page 10: Playing Your Dood 05
Dood & Too Playing Your Dood VIDEO - Playing your D Make sure your mouthpiece is positioned so the reed is at the bottom. Start by resting your top teeth on the top or “beak” of the mouthpiece about 1cm from the tip (Image ), and close your mouth around the mouthpiece (Image ). -
Page 11: Playing Your Toot
Dood & Too Playing Your Toot with the Firstnote Lip Plate Playing the Toot with the Firstnote lip plate is simple; just raise the Toot up to your mouth, with the instrument pointing out to your right-hand side, close your lips around the mouthpiece as shown and gently blow. -
Page 12: Introducing The Staff Or Stave
Dood & Too Introducing the Staff or Stave Musical notation is written out using 5 lines called the staff, or stave. The notes are placed either in the spaces between the lines, or on the lines depending on which notes they are. Time signatures tell us how many Bar lines divide the music staff beats per measure. -
Page 13: Let's Play Some Notes: B, A And G
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Page 14: Introducing Note Lengths
Dood & Too Note Lengths Music notes don’t just tell us what notes to play, but also how long to hold the notes for. Whole note, Half note, Quarter note, count 4 beats count 2 beats count 1 beat Let’s Play Some Tunes The first tune we are going to play only uses one note –... -
Page 15: Introducing The Quarter Note Rest
Dood & Too NOTE Now try the same with this tune which uses just the note A, remember to try clapping the rhythm of the tune first. A Tune Graham Lyons This means rest for the count of 1 beat NOTE Finally try this on the note G G Tune... -
Page 16: Introducing The Repeat Sign
Dood & Too If we want the music to sound more interesting we need to use more than one note in a tune. Try playing these 4 tunes that use B, A and G. Notice the repeat sign at the end of each piece - this means you repeat the tune again from the start. - Page 17 Dood & Too More B, A, G Tunes Baggy Pants 1 Graham Lyons Baggy Pants 2 Graham Lyons Baggy Pants 3 Graham Lyons...
- Page 18 Dood & Too When you play Time Traveller first listen to the backing track, then try to play with the music. In the classroom you could split into Group A and Group B, taking a line each. Time Traveller Graham Lyons Group A Group B Group A...
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Page 19: Introducing Duets
Dood & Too Playing Duets Music is usually played by more than one instrument at a time. A duet is a piece written for two players. Sometimes the two players have similar sounding lines, other times they have very different lines, but they always sound great when played together. -
Page 20: Introducing Eighth Notes
Dood & Too Eighth Introducing Notes eighth When we need notes that are shorter than quarter notes, we can use notes. Each eight note is worth half a quarter note. A Single eighth Eighth notes beamed together note equal 1 quarter note See if you can spot the eighth notes in Donkeys, clap the rhythm, listen to the track, then try to play it. - Page 21 Dood & Too Eighth Note Workout! Bruce Hunnisett Disco Duet Paul Barker Moderato Part 1 Part 2...
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Page 22: Let's Learn 2 More Notes: C And F
Dood & Too Let’s Learn More Notes: C and F NOTE NOTE C Freeze! Bruce Hunnisett Merrily Trad. -
Page 23: Introducing Slurs
Dood & Too Slurs If there are notes in a tune which should not be tongued, we connect the notes with a slur; this means those notes should be played in one breath, moving your fingers smoothly to change the notes. Remember to keep your air moving from one note to the next, so no gaps can be heard between the notes. -
Page 24: Let's Play A New Note: B
Dood & Too NOTE The Flat Sign A flat sign can be placed in front of any note, it lowers the note by a half-step. The next note we are learning is a B . It sounds slightly lower than a normal B. Try playing this note, it should sound half way between A and B. -
Page 25: Introducing The Dotted Half Note
Dood & Too Introducing the Dotted Half Note A dot after a note adds half the value of the original note, so the dotted half note will be worth 3 beats. Look out for the dotted half notes in this tune. When The Saints... -
Page 26: Let's Learn The Highest Note: D
Dood & Too Let’ s Learn D: the Highest Note on the Dood and the T oot NOTE Key Signatures If you look at the start of Twinkle Twinkle, you will notice a flat sign on the B line at the start of every line. -
Page 27: Three More Notes: E, D And C
Dood & Too Let’s Learn Three More Notes: E, Low D and Low C NOTE NOTE NOTE Now try playing these notes. The low notes can be hard at first. If you are struggling to get the correct sound, it might be because your fingers are not covering the holes correctly. Playing in front of a mirror can help you see what your fingers are doing. -
Page 28: Introducing The C Major Scale
Dood & Too Suo-Gan trad. Welsh Up and Down Bruce Hunnisett Practice all the notes by playing the scale below. It goes from a low C all the way up to a high C. In music we call this a major scale. This type of scale is the foundation for all kinds of music. The C Major Scale Try playing the scale both slurred and tongued, it’... - Page 29 Dood & Too Now that you have learnt to play more notes, it’ s possible to play more interesting tunes. Take your time with each tune, and try to master each one before moving on. Remember it’ s a good idea to start slowly and gradually practice the tunes a little faster each time.
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Page 30: Introducing Time Signatures
Dood & Too Introducing Time Signatures All of the music we have played so far has been in , meaning it has quarter note beats in each measure. This is called the time signature. Country Waltz and Morning have a time signature of , meaning they only have quarter note beats in each measure. -
Page 31: Introducing The Dotted Quarter Note
Dood & Too Introducing the Dotted Quarter Note The dotted quarter note is worth beats. It is often paired with an eighth note, to make 2 complete ½ beats as in Michael Row the Boat Ashore and Ode to Joy. Michael Row The Boat Ashore Trad. - Page 32 Dood & Too Don’t forget to check the key signature before playing the next tune. Ode To Joy Beethoven 1770-1827 This Old Man Trad. This old man. played one, played knick knack drum. With a knick knack pad-dy whack, give a bone, this came...
- Page 33 Dood & Too This is a great duet for D s and T s. Both parts can be played by either instrument. Jingle Bells Trad. Arr. Paul Barker Part 1 Part 2...
- Page 34 Dood & Too Chinese Whispers Paul Barker Blues in C Paul Barker Good King Wenceslas Trad. feast Ste - phen. Good king Wen-ces las looked out, When snow round a - bout, deep crisp ven. Bright - ly shone moon that night, though...
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Page 35: Playing Staccato
Dood & Too Notice the 2/4 time signature of the next tune. This tells us there are 2 beats in each bar. Yankee Doodle Dandy Trad. Yan - kee doo - dle went town, rid - ing Stuck fea - ther called Mac - car In the tune Donkeys, you can see dots below some of the notes. - Page 36 Dood & Too The Chase Paul Barker Part 1 Part 2 Molly Malone Trad. - lin’ s fair ci - ty, where grils pret - ty, first eyes sweet Mol - loy Ma - lone. wheeled wheel bar - row through streets broad and nar-row, cry-ing ‘cock - les...
- Page 37 Dood & Too We Three Kings Trad. three kings O - ri - ent are. Bear - ing gifts tra-verse far. Field and foun - tain,moor moun-tain foll-ow-ing yon - der star. star der star of night. Star with roy al beau bright.
- Page 38 Dood & Too The Elephant Can Can Offenbach 1819 - 1880 Space Trax Paul Barker...
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Page 39: First And Second Endings
Dood & Too First and Second Endings 2 towards the end In Smooth Trax and Reggae Trax you can see sections marked 1 and . These are called first and second endings. The first time you play the measures marked , and then when you repeat the piece you skip the first ending and play the ending marked Ties... - Page 40 Dood & Too Smooth Trax Paul Barker Introduction Play this the first time When you repeat the piece play this...
- Page 41 Dood & Too See if you can spot the ties in Reggae Trax Reggae Trax Paul Barker Introduction...
- Page 42 Dood & Too RAP Trax Paul Barker Coming through! What you wanna do - it’s on you? Yeah, yeah, yeah! Coming through! What you wanna do - it’s on you?
- Page 43 Dood & Too Mexican Wave Paul Barker Audience Clap! Introduction Part 1 Part 2...
- Page 44 If you want to learn even more great tunes, you can check out the WindStars website. When you set up a free online account, you can search for new music by instrument and specific notes. www.nuvo-windstars.com Visit our website for more details about this, and other NUVO products. www.nuvo-instrumental.com Recorder...
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Page 46: Dood Fingering Chart
Dood & Too D ood Fingering Chart Fully Close Half Open (with finger on the pad but not covering the hole) Open... -
Page 47: Toot Fingering Chart
Dood & Too T oot Fingering Chart Fully Close Half Open (with finger on the pad but not covering the hole) Open... - Page 48 The “Play It Today” series has been prepared and edited by 4 widely experienced music educators to provide a basis for learning the fundamentals of any NUVO instrument. This book introduces basic technique and enough notes to play simple fun tunes solo or in a group. This is the perfect method for developing the necessary skills to further explore the wealth of music available to download from the WindStars website.