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Call and Reply

Änderungen in Version 2 (von improwiki, 30.08.2017 09:47)

  • Call and Reply
  • All players form a circle. Then they all make a change of pace together with clapping, which sets the basic beat and is maintained all the time.
  • Feet: left - right - right - left - right - right - etc.
  • Clapping: * * *
  • Now one of them sings a bar in Gibberish-African, and everyone repeats the song in the next bar. Example:
  • *One: Umbwa Nugambe.
  • *All of them are called Umbwa Nugambe.
  • *One:"Salam bananu"
  • *All of them:"Salam bananu"
  • *One:"Ma O-Enu"
  • *All of them are Ma O-Enu.
  • *One:"Wasam banai"
  • -All of them were "Wasam banai"
  • +*All of them were "Wasam banai"
  • *etc.
  • The exercise is very simple. But there's a good feeling. If that works out well, the role of the lead singer will go round and round. Everybody gets one shot at it.
  • ### Variant: 2 strokes
  • Two bars are always sung and repeated. Example:
  • *One:"Sasam oe, wanau madamba"
  • *All:"Sasam oe, wanau madamba"
  • *One:"Uruduku choo mi-gwom ba dah"
  • *All: "Uruduku choo mi-gwom ba dah"
  • *etc.
  • ### Variant: Any Gibberish
  • The prescription/association "African" is omitted, the players simply sing some kind of Gibberish, which doesn't have to orientate itself on any existing speech sound.
  • ### Further variant
  • The same with meaningful text. If possible, even rhymed. A default ("Song title") is helpful. Example: Title = "The cat in the fridge":
  • *One:"I've got a little pussycat..."
  • *All:"I got a little pussycat..."
  • *One:"She's pretty smart..."
  • *All:"She's pretty smart..."
  • *etc.
  • The repetition gives the next person a little time to think up the next line. This makes this warm-up game a bit easier than the game Continuous Story ("Die").