Book with children songs, sheet music and CD
My favorite quote from They Might Be Giants is: Music self-played is Happiness self-made.
I recently heard a neuro scientist say that we probably developed singing in parallel to speaking and that you can’t destinguish a scientist’s brain from an average brain, but you can tell the difference of a musician’s brain because certain areas in the brain are further developed.
Now these little Wee Sing series of Children books is ideal to play the songs from the CD in the car and sing along on trips, but that is not all, there is also sheet music including chords. I use them to play our favorite songs on the piano and we sing along. – Lots of fun.
The melodies are easy enough, so that Nina practice these once she is old enough to play her own instrument. (If she wants to.)
I think I have never done that before encouraged consumerism. At Costco right now they have a package of these with three CDs for 10 bucks. It will give you hours and hours of big smile fun. Try it out or give it away to your friends that have little kids.
I even twittered one of the songs I really like and didn’t know before:
Boom-de-ah-da … I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills, I love the flowers, I love the daffodils. I love the fireside F Dm Gm C7
If you know how to play chords and the rest of the lyrics, you can play this song. Sweet.