Drunken Sailor on Boomwhackers
Drunken Sailor 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. A sea shanty in D Dorian that needs no chromatic tubes at all. 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
- D Dorian
- Time
- 2/4
- Melody
- C D E F G A B high C
- Chords
- C D E F G A
- Music
- Traditional
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
Play the melody and ask: does it sound major or minor? It sounds minor even though there is not a single chromatic tube. Students discover the Dorian mode without any theory.
Colored sheet music and bonus code
The colored sheet music for “Drunken Sailor” 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
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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).