Tot Rock

• Coming in Classical: Vaughn Williams –The Running Set

  Activity Instructions:

  Play music as children are entering at the start of class.

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• Tot Rock Hello

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my Tots
  Rock, rock rock with my Tots
  Rock, rock rock with my Tots
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

  Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

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• Song w/Instrument: Castanet Scale

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out castanets. Allow children to explore clicking with one hand, the other hand, and both hands along with the rhythm of the words.

  Lyrics:
  

  Click click click my castanet
  Click click click my castanet
  Click click click my castanet
  Click my castanet

  Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
  Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
  Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
  Chomp my castanet

  Talking with my castanet x4

  (1234555 5432111
  1234565 54321)

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• Lapride: Bounce Along

  Activity Instructions:

  Bounce during verse. Follow directions during chorus, roll backwards for upside down.

  Lyrics:
  

  C’mon and bounce along with me
  C’mon and bounce along with me

  We’re going up and down
  and up and down
  and bumping
  bumping all around

  We’ll go up and down
  and up and down
  rock side to side
  and fall upside down.

  C’mon and bounce along with me
  C’mon and bounce along with me

  We’re going up and down
  and up and down
  and bumping
  bumping all around

  We’ll go up and down
  and up and down
  rock side to side
  and fall upside down.

  C’mon and bounce along with me
  C’mon and bounce along with me

  We’re going up and down
  and up and down
  and bumping
  bumping all around

  We’ll go up and down
  and up and down
  rock side to side
  and fall upside down.

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• Color or Shape Song w/Instrument: Transportation Shapes

  Activity Instructions:

  Review the shapes with children. Then have them run to the items on the wall as you sing about them.

  Lyrics:
  

  (Hot Cross Buns)
  Find the bus, Find the bus
  Where’s it hanging, find it for me
  Find the bus, Find the bus

  Bus, Train, Plane, Car, Motorcycle

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• Song w/Instrument: Tapping on My Drum

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Tap, tap, tap (x6)
  Tapping on my drum

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• Body Awareness: Walk Like An Animal

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk like an elelphant (x8)

  CHORUS
  Turn around
  Touch the ground
  Touch your toes
  Touch your nose

  Walk like a monkey (x8)

  CHORUS

  Walk like a bear (x8)

  CHORUS

  Run like a lion (x8)

  Fly through the air like you don’t care

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• Solfege Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do
  Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol
  Fa Mi Fa Sol Mi
  Do Do Re Mi Mi Mi
  Re Do Re Mi Do
  Do Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do

  The itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the water spout
  Down came the rain and
  Washed the spider out
  Out came the sun and
  dried up all the rain
  And the itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the spout again

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• Song w/Ball: Blue Danube Ball

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

  Historical information:

  The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for “By the Beautiful Blue Danube”), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed in February, 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire.

  The piece was prominently used in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz is heard as a space plane approaches and docks with a space station, and then again while another spacecraft travels from the station to the Moon. It is also heard over the film’s closing credits.

  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Danube ]

  
  

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• World Music Dance: Syria – Ajmal Gharam Zein Al-Jundi

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!  Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

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• Musical Exploration

  Activity Instructions:

  Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

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• Musical Game: Shake to the tempo

  Activity Instructions:

  Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

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• Puppet: Izzy Ichthyologist

  Activity Instructions:

  Use fish puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  the fish in the school, the fish in the school
  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  The fish, fish in the school

  The fish has gills instead of lungs
  to filter oxygen from the water
  The fish has fins to help him swim
  they live their lives under the water

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• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

  Lyrics:
  

  Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
  Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
  au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
  Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

  |: Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      We’ll rock again next time :|

Kid Rock

• Coming In Classical: Vaughn Williams –The Running Set

  Activity Instructions:

  Play music as children are entering at the start of class.

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• Kid Rock Hello Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my big kids
  Rock, rock rock with my big kids
  Rock, rock rock with my big kids
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

  Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

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• Song w/Instrument: Tapping on My Drum

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Tap, tap, tap (x6)
  Tapping on my drum

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• Body Awareness: Walk Like An Animal

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk like an elelphant (x8)

  CHORUS
  Turn around
  Touch the ground
  Touch your toes
  Touch your nose

  Walk like a monkey (x8)

  CHORUS

  Walk like a bear (x8)

  CHORUS

  Run like a lion (x8)

  Fly through the air like you don’t care

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• Alphabet Song w/Instrument: Letter O – Olive the Otter

  Activity Instructions:

  Talk to children about letter O words in the song, have them point out the letter O on the alphabet chart. The sing song, have children use their hands to tap the beat.

  Lyrics:
  

  Olive the Otter climbed Onto the Oak Tree
  to look for the Ocean blue
  Olive the Otter climbed Off Of me
  and she climbed Onto you.

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• Solfege Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do
  Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol
  Fa Mi Fa Sol Mi
  Do Do Re Mi Mi Mi
  Re Do Re Mi Do
  Do Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do

  The itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the water spout
  Down came the rain and
  Washed the spider out
  Out came the sun and
  dried up all the rain
  And the itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the spout again

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Walking Up the Scale

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children make a line. Pass out boomwhackers for children in pitches from C-G. Allow children to explore hitting them on the floor. Teacher asks “who has red? who has orange? etc. and make sure each child knows what color they have” Ask children to hit the boomwhacker on the ground when you say the name of the color they have. As they hit the boomwhacker on the ground, you also hit the same note/color on the xylophone. Then introduce song, saying color names and hitting xylophone note as children hit boomwhackers on the floor.

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• Composing Activity: Color Composing 3

  Activity Instructions:

  Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
  (Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

  Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

   

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• Song w/Ball: Blue Danube Ball

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

  Historical information:

  The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for “By the Beautiful Blue Danube”), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed in February, 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire.

  The piece was prominently used in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz is heard as a space plane approaches and docks with a space station, and then again while another spacecraft travels from the station to the Moon. It is also heard over the film’s closing credits.

  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Danube ]

  
  

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• World Music Dance: Syria – Ajmal Gharam Zein Al-Jundi

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!  Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

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• Musical Exploration

  Activity Instructions:

  Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

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• Musical Game: Shake to the tempo

  Activity Instructions:

  Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

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• Puppet: Izzy Ichthyologist

  Activity Instructions:

  Use fish puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  the fish in the school, the fish in the school
  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  The fish, fish in the school

  The fish has gills instead of lungs
  to filter oxygen from the water
  The fish has fins to help him swim
  they live their lives under the water

---

• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

  Lyrics:
  

  Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
  Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
  au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
  Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

  |: Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      We’ll rock again next time :|

Family Rock

• Coming In Classical: Vaughn Williams –The Running Set

  Activity Instructions:

  Play music as children are entering at the start of class.

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• Family Rock Hello Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my families
  Rock, rock rock with my families
  Rock, rock rock with my families
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

  Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
  Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
  in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

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• Song w/Instrument: Tapping on My Drum

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Tap, tap, tap (x6)
  Tapping on my drum

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• Peek-a-boo: My Baby is Hiding

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, play peek-a-boo. Sing song, looking around for baby like you can’t find them, until you notice them at “There he is!”, pull scarf off at final hello if desired.

  Lyrics:
  

  My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where could he be,
  My ba-by is hi-ding, he’s hi-ding from me
  My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where did he go
  My ba-by is hi-ding, [SPOKEN: There he is!] hel-lo!

  My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where could she be,
  My ba-by is hi-ding, she’s hi-ding from me
  My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where did she go
  My ba-by is hi-ding, [SPOKEN: There he is!] hel-lo!

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• Color or Shape Song: Transportation Shapes

  Activity Instructions:

  Review the shapes with children. Then have them run to the items on the wall as you sing about them.

  Lyrics:
  

  (Hot Cross Buns)
  Find the bus, Find the bus
  Where’s it hanging, find it for me
  Find the bus, Find the bus

  Bus, Train, Plane, Car, Motorcycle

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• Body Awareness: Walk Like An Animal

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk like an elelphant (x8)

  CHORUS
  Turn around
  Touch the ground
  Touch your toes
  Touch your nose

  Walk like a monkey (x8)

  CHORUS

  Walk like a bear (x8)

  CHORUS

  Run like a lion (x8)

  Fly through the air like you don’t care

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Walking Up the Scale

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children make a line. Pass out boomwhackers for children in pitches from C-G. Allow children to explore hitting them on the floor. Teacher asks “who has red? who has orange? etc. and make sure each child knows what color they have” Ask children to hit the boomwhacker on the ground when you say the name of the color they have. As they hit the boomwhacker on the ground, you also hit the same note/color on the xylophone. Then introduce song, saying color names and hitting xylophone note as children hit boomwhackers on the floor.

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• Solfege Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do
  Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol
  Fa Mi Fa Sol Mi
  Do Do Re Mi Mi Mi
  Re Do Re Mi Do
  Do Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Do

  The itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the water spout
  Down came the rain and
  Washed the spider out
  Out came the sun and
  dried up all the rain
  And the itsy bitsy spider
  Went up the spout again

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• Song w/Ball: Blue Danube Ball

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
  |: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

  Historical information:

  The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for “By the Beautiful Blue Danube”), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed in February, 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire.

  The piece was prominently used in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz is heard as a space plane approaches and docks with a space station, and then again while another spacecraft travels from the station to the Moon. It is also heard over the film’s closing credits.

  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Danube ]

  
  

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• World Music Dance: Syria – Ajmal Gharam Zein Al-Jundi

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!  Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

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• Musical Exploration

  Activity Instructions:

  Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

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• Musical Composition Activity: Color Composing 3

  Activity Instructions:

  Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
  (Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

  Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

   

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• Musical Game: Shake to the tempo

  Activity Instructions:

  Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

---

• Puppet: Izzy Ichthyologist

  Activity Instructions:

  Use fish puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  the fish in the school, the fish in the school
  Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
  The fish, fish in the school

  The fish has gills instead of lungs
  to filter oxygen from the water
  The fish has fins to help him swim
  they live their lives under the water

---

• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

  Lyrics:
  

  Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
  Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
  au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
  Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

  |: Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      Goodbye [Name goes here]
      Goodbye [Name here]
      We’ll rock again next time :|