Old Folks At Home (Way Down Upon The Swanee River)

This traditional American Folk Song can be used to:

• Practise the rhythmic element 'tim-ka' (dotted quaver, semiquaver / dotted eighth note, sixteenth note).
• Discover the form (without the repeat, it's A, A variant, B, A variant).
• Discover the descending tonic arpeggio (d'-s-m-d)

Also great for working with singers for:

• Intonation - particulary correctly pitching an ascending octave and an ascending Major 7th.
• legato singing with extended phrases.