Bach’s Toccata in D Minor on Boomwhackers
Bach’s Toccata in D Minor 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. You need the 8-note diatonic set plus the C♯ and B♭ tubes from the chromatic set. The best-known spooky organ music of all, traditionally attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. 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♭
- Key
- D minor
- Time
- 4/4
- Melody
- C♯ D E F G A B♭
- Chords
- C♯ D E F G A B♭
- Music
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- German title
- Toccata d-Moll (Bach)
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
Listen to the opening and let students describe how the organ sounds. The motif comes three times as an echo: one group plays loud, a second answers softly.
Colored sheet music and bonus code
The colored sheet music for “Bach’s Toccata in D Minor” 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 Toccata d-Moll (Bach)
- Spanish Tocata en re menor (Bach)
- French Toccata en ré mineur (Bach)
- Italian Toccata in re minore (Bach)
- Dutch Toccata in d klein (Bach)
- Polish Toccata d-moll (Bach)
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).