Ravel’s Boléro on Boomwhackers
Ravel’s Boléro is a 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. All you need is the 8-note diatonic set from C to high C. Ravel repeats the same melody over one snare-drum rhythm while the orchestra grows louder and louder. This play-along is a bonus that comes with the colored sheet music on eduki; the code inside unlocks it.
The player’s menus are in German for now. Press ▶ and play: “Tempo” is the speed slider, “Tonart” means key.
Tubes you need
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- A
- B
- Chigh
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 3/4
- Melody
- C D E F G A B high C
- Chords
- C D E F G B
- Music
- Maurice Ravel
- German title
- Boléro (Ravel)
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
One part of the class taps the drum ostinato quietly on the desks, another plays the theme. With each round more students join in, so the crescendo happens all by itself.
Colored sheet music and bonus code
The colored sheet music for “Ravel’s Boléro” is available on eduki, a teaching-materials marketplace (German edition). Inside you will find a bonus code that unlocks this play-along. Enter it on the song list or right in the player; your browser remembers it.
💡 German sheet music uses the German note names: H is your B, and B means B♭. The colors are the same.
📄 Colored sheet music on eduki (German edition) 🎁 Enter a code
In other languages
- German Boléro (Ravel)
- Spanish Bolero (Ravel)
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).