Game players sit in a circle, facing each other. Working in unison, each player:. Players repeat this sequence, with everyone clapping, slapping, clapping, and snapping at the same time, to establish a background rhythm. Each player takes a turn, moving around the circle from left to right counter-clockwise. Starting with the first hand clap, the first player says a name. This player has only a four count of the rhythm clap, slap, clap, snap to say their word. Play continues, going around the circle, until only one player, the winner, remains.
Young Children Version: Young children may remember names, but still be young enough to struggle with spelling the words. Each play names an animal or chosen theme word , without the first letter of their word matching the last letter of the previous word.
Young Adult Version: The rhythm stops when a player fails to find an appropriate word. This version focuses on social interaction skills. Playing the game would encourage participants to improve memory, thinking, and communication skills, which tend to decline with age.
Consider adding more time for finding a word clap, slap, clap, snap, clap, slap, clap, snap , to make the game less frustrating to play. So, if you pick the theme of the periodic table of elements, do you clap, slap your thighs, or snap then say the name of an element?
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction. You must say the name of an element before the next round of clap, slap, clap, and snap starts. In one version of this game, you say one syllable with each hand movement.
If you are struggling to think of "Nitrogen", you might yell "Nitrogen" as the circle is finishing the last snap. Just finish saying "Nitrogen" before the circle does the next clap to stay in the game. Introduction: How to Play the Clapping Game. This game is popular in all parts of the country and the children coin words to suit them. This transcription is made from games collected in from playgrounds in Cape Coast, Ghana.
How to play: Players form two lines facing each other. The players do a four beat body percussion pattern with the player they are facing. The player then turns to the side and does the four beat pattern again. The player is then expected to face the first partner again. In the second section the players create a bridge above their heads tapping facing partner maintaining the beat. The couple at the end come under the bridge and walk through still tapping hands. The next couple follows till all have had a turn".
Thank you for your great research for this song. You're welcome, Anonymous. But it's good to know that that Ghanaian song is also known in Austria and Germany. Thank You :-D I think you are right, when You say that it is not the correct translation, we have used. Unknown, if you read this, please accept my apologies for failing to acknowledge your comment from January 21, I just read it when another comment was posted today.
I'm also sorry that the link to the file you shared is no longer available. One love! I like this video of the song. Hi, Unknown. Thanks for sharing that video. I've added it to this post with a hat tip for you. Thank you for your really thoughtful blog. I find so many music teachers gloss over these issues in the quest for fulfilling a multicultural standard.
Too often teachers are lazy about multicultural education and teach inauthentic or badly sourced materials. I actually learned this song as a result of a folk song research project I did with 4th graders about 25 years ago.
I asked kids to interview the oldest family member they could easily get to and have them record a song from their own childhood.
One of my kids' parents were from Ghana and his mother sang this song along with a handclap game that was pretty much the patchen game, though she didn't do the side step but rather did a turn to a separate partner. The meaning she gave was pretty much exactly the meaning for 1. Off the top of my head it was She explained that in Ghana the hand clap could get really vigorous and kids would try to push each other down when playing. So I feel pretty confident in teaching the song, though I don't know how far back the song goes.
I do though have a primary source for the material in this woman. Even have the old tape around somewhere though I really should have preserved those. Found some real gold in that project. Chris Forbes, thanks for your comments. I agree with you that "so many music teachers gloss over these issues in the quest for fulfilling a multicultural standard. I also agree with you that you found gold in that folk song project that you did with your 4th grade students decades ago.
Thanks also for including the accompanying performance activities that your student learned from his Ghanaian mother. This is the kind of material that comes upon when one least expects it over the internet.
Even if you never find the tape that contained this folk research, take a bow for sharing this information with the world. Thank you so much for this fascinating blog post.
I've taught this song with several community choirs and have always been uneasy about not knowing exactly what it meant or where it came from. Seems that 1 might be emerging as a consensus translation! Best wishes. Greetings, sheena. Thanks for your comment. I still think that the meaning given as 1 in this pancocojams post is the correct meaning of this Ghanaian song.
Hopefully, the coronavirus pandemic will go away soon so that your community choirs and others can safely sing again. Be blessed! As of June 29, there are ten YouTube videos of American [? There's also one video of a woman playing "Tue Tue" on the recorder. In all of these renditions of "Tue Tue" the tune is the same and the words vary only slightly.
In most of these videos, "Tue Tue" is performed as a "round", and the tempo for a few of those renditions is faster than the tempo for other renditions. All but one of the examples of this song that I've found to date indicate that "Tue Tue" is a Ghanaian song. That lone example is a version of this song entitled "Tue Tue Mareema" which purports to be from the Republic of Guinea. Many websites which include lyrics for "Tue Tue" add the name of an arranger for that particular version of that song.
No composer's name is given for this song which may suggest that it really is a traditional folk song. This post provides six text examples of "Tue Tue" that I've found on the internet, along with the meaning that those contributors gave to this song. Those meanings are given in italics to highlight that statement. These examples are representative of the widely varying meanings that have been given to this song.
That is fine if you believe that the words to the song have no actual meaning as is the case with Example 3 given below. Instead of using that opportunity to teach children something about a particular African language, teachers may be introducing or reinforcing the idea that Africans speak "gibberish". Furthermore, if these examples are adaptations of a traditional Ghanaian song, then it seems to me that teachers should specify what the adaptations are. For example, since so many of these examples specify singing in a "round", children might believe that that style of singing is the way that song was traditionally sung in Ghana.
But is that true? Also, accompanying this song with body pats might give children the impression that this song-and perhaps all African songs- are supposed to have such accompaniment. These concerns wouldn't be problematic if multiple examples of "African" songs were taught to children in American schools.
However, that certainly isn't true. Given that "Tue Tue Barima" might be the only African song or one of very few other African songs that non-African children learn, it seems to me that we owe it to those children to make sure that the information shared about that song are correct. I believe that efforts should be made to ensure that the words of the song being taught are accurate. And indeed those words appear to be relatively consistent in the examples that I've found. But I'm far less concerned about getting the words "right" than I am concerned that people are "fudging" a feel good meaning for this song, or indicating that the song is a nonsense song whose words have no meaning, if those particular words- or some of those words- actually do mean something in the language from which the song comes.
These examples are not presented in any order of preference. Notice that in each of these examples no English words are sung.
Example 1: [These lyrics came from a person who identified himself or herself as Ghanaian] "Mawuli wrote: March 20th, at am My dear, l am a ghanaian from the EWE tribe of Ghana.
English translation: 1. The pronunciation is "doo-way doo-way". Abi also wrote that "I understand you have found a Ghanaian version of this song and you might find this information below of interest as well, as I know many versions exist of most African songs as it is, after all, the natural outcome of a mostly aural tradition. What does raise my doubts about the African authenticity of the internet versions of this song that I've found are the widely diverging meanings that have been given to this song's lyrics.
My 5th graders can manage the patschen but only one group several years ago could add the footwork! The year they performed this they had a woman from Ghana in the audience who came up to Carolyn after the concert with tears in her eyes, saying they had sung it exactly as she remembered it as a child.
Also, the blogger didn't write that the Ghanaian woman agreed with the statement about the song's meaning. With that, I'll leave you with the song that caused all the uproar among my students - Tue Tue, a nonsense song from Ghana. Tue tue barima tue tue Tue tue barima tue tue Abofroda, ama dawa dawa tue tue Abofroda, ama dawa dawa tue tue Barima tue tue Consider adding two claps after the first and second lines.
This song can also be sung in a round. Rachel Wadham Yam it up! Tue, Tue is a traditional Ghanaian song about harvesting. Although the words of this song come from a combination of languages and have no particular meaning, they are rhythmic and up tempo. It is important to sing this song with lots of energy and spirit. Mollie Da Panda, "ruth mcneal Yeah, ages ago I looked it up. Its"Sorry man, sorry man.. I tried to find the Akan words for "helpless" and for "fall": helpless - no English translation fall - powbere -snip- I then looked up the Akan word for "weak" as I thought that was close to the meaning of the word "helpless".
I also didn't find any results for falling down or flat that were spelled like the words in that line from Example 1. However, the meaning of that last line "Ama wa da waa" is still unclear. Is this the "right" English translation for this song? Is this song about harvest time or is this truly a nonsense song? I'm not sure, but from the results of those Akan to English translations, "Tue Tue" doesn't appear to be a song about selling rice cakes.
Nor does those translations support the theories that "Tue Tue" is a harvest song about giving thanks. I believe so for the reasons that I gave above.
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