Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on Boomwhackers
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 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 F♯ and G♯ tubes from the chromatic set. In the original a celesta plays, a keyboard instrument that sounds like little bells. 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
- D
- E
- F
- F♯
- G
- G♯
- A
- B
- Chigh
- Key
- A minor
- Time
- 2/4
- Melody
- D E F F♯ G G♯ A B high C
- Chords
- C D E F F♯ G G♯ A B
- Music
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- German title
- Tanz der Zuckerfee
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 briefly and let students guess the instrument. The melody slides down in half steps: with F♯ and G♯ it sounds like the original; without a chromatic set, leave those two notes out.
Colored sheet music and bonus code
The colored sheet music for “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” 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 Tanz der Zuckerfee
- Spanish Danza del hada de azúcar
- French Danse de la fée Dragée
- Italian Danza della fata confetto
- Dutch Dans van de suikerfee
- Polish Taniec Wieszczki Cukrowej
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).