Chris's hand drumming books for elementary and middle school music classes are simply the best available. All are available here and all use the Orff process including complete lesson plans. Take a look at her recent book for Orff Ensemble using the modes, In the Modes! Chris just finished a new collection of druming pieces available now, Drum With a Passion. Look at a preview.

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Drum with a Passion by Chris Judah Lauder
Drum with a Passion

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This latest release from Chris is a collection of energetic, child-ready drumming activities. As with all of her classic drumming texts, this one was developed in the classroom with her students and have been polished in the classroom and at workshops and conference sessions around the country.

Drum with a Passion includes fifteen songs with activities, lessons plans, objectives, and supplemental materials including student worksheets and full color Powerpoint and Keynote presentations. The visuals follow the Orff process lesson plan presented for each song.

Canya Conga? by Chris Judah Lauder
Canya Conga?

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Appropriate for grades 4 - 8, CANYA CONGA? is laid out with extensive Orff process lesson plans including objectives and extension possibilities plus full scores for every activity.

Don't have a huge collection of conga drums? Chris has you covered! She has included excellent ways to adapt and include everyday household items in the drum ensemble. Think STOMP! 

Supplemental materials include image files of each music score and a FULL COLOR VISUAL of each activity suitable for your INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD OR PRESENTATION STATION.

In the Modes by Chris Judah Lauder
In the Modes

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This classic book from Chri features the ancient modes. Playing and learning in the modes is a great way to promote improvisation and instrument technique in your students. This is great new material for Orff Levels teachers!

Developed by Chris in her classroom as group composition pieces, Chris supervised, filled in instrument parts, polished up melodies and wrote brilliant Orff process lesson plans.

Supplemental Materials include visuals, full scores, instrument parts, and professionally produced audio recordings of each piece. Here's a sample:

to drum by Chris Judah Lauder
to drum

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to drum is a best-selling book of drumming activities for grades 1 - 8. The book is laid out with Orff process lesson plans and full scores along with suggestions for visuals. This book will have all of your elementary and middle school students moving and drumming like never before. Twelve varied and interesting activities that teach rhythm, beat, meter by drumming, creating, and moving will take your music classes by storm! You don't want to miss this classic offering!
Hand Drums on the Move by Chris Judah Lauder
Hand Drums on the Move

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This best-selling book of activities for hand drums is the result of years of classroom work with children in grades 1 - 8. The pieces are written in musical score alongside the Orff teaching process for easy reference, ideal for a beginning teacher or someone new to hand drums. Experienced teachers will also find that these 14 pieces will energize and motivate their elementary and middle school music classes.

About Chris

Chris Judah-Lauder lives in Dallas, Texas and is retired after teaching 40 years of General Music, K-8th grade, Orff, Recorder and Drum Ensembles at Clay Middle School, South Bend, Indiana; St. Lawrence School, Indianapolis, Indiana and Good Shepherd Episcopal School, Dallas, Texas. 

 Chris has the designation of Master Teacher with Indiana University from South Bend, Indiana. Chris is a Past President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and has chaired two National AOSA Conferences; 2009 in Milwaukee and 2017 in Fort Worth, TX. She is an endorsed teacher education instructor for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and has been on faculty at Trinity University in Texas, VanderCook College School of Music in Chicago, Michigan Orff Collage in Detroit, Michigan and North Dakota State University. 

 Chris presents Master Orff Courses throughout the country and is currently serving as a consultant for several Title One schools, working directly in the classroom with the music teacher. She is an active clinician for in-service staff developments, Level Courses, Orff Schulwerk Chapters, State Music Education Conferences and international workshops. Chris has seventeen publications and is a senior author for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

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