Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on Boomwhackers
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a free color-coded Boomwhacker play-along on bimbadi: the notes fly toward your class in their tube colors on the smartboard or projector, with note names instead of lyrics. You only need C, D, E, F, G and A. Short, short, short, long: the most famous motif in music history. Free, no sign-up, no ads.
The player’s menus are in German for now. Press ▶ and play: “Tempo” is the speed slider, “Tonart” means key.
Tubes you need
- D
- E
- F
- G
- A
- Key
- C minor
- Time
- 2/4
- Melody
- D E F G A
- Chords
- C D E F G A
- Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- German title
- Beethoven: 5. Sinfonie (Ta-ta-ta-TAA)
No tubes? With the QR wall every student scans a code and gets one color as an instrument on a phone or tablet. Boomwhacker colors: C red, D orange, E yellow, F light green, G dark green, A purple, B pink, high C red again.
Classroom idea
Clap the motif together, then have students invent their own motifs on the same pattern and perform them for the class. Talk about how Beethoven builds a whole movement out of four notes.
Colored sheet music to print
The play-along is free. Colored sheet music for “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony” with a lesson plan is available on eduki (German edition).
💡 German sheet music uses the German note names: H is your B, and B means B♭. The colors are the same.
In other languages
- German Beethoven: 5. Sinfonie (Ta-ta-ta-TAA)
- Spanish Beethoven: Sinfonía n.º 5
- French Beethoven : Symphonie n° 5
- Italian Beethoven: Sinfonia n. 5
- Dutch Beethoven: Vijfde symfonie
- Polish Beethoven: V Symfonia
More songs like this
No lyrics printed here. Melodies are in the public domain or our own arrangements for Boomwhackers; sources are listed in the player under “Für Lehrkräfte” (for teachers).