- Level: All levels. Piano music is Mid to Late Intermediate.
Cup tapping includes 3 levels – elementary, early intermediate, and late intermediate - Pages: 29 pages, 4 pages of piano music, 12 pages of rhythm cup tapping routines, 10 pages of conductors score, cover included!
- Special Features: Downloadable accompaniment tracks
- Bonuses: Access to streaming tracks and training videos
- Style: With flair, Exciting!
- Format: PDF instant download + downloadable mp3s + free subscription to Hava Nagila streaming tracks and videos
This exciting arrangement of Hava Nagila with Rhythm Cups was commissioned by the Wichita Metropolitan Music Teachers Association for their multi-keyboard festival in 2020. This piece contains a intermediate to late intermediate piano solo, 3 levels of cup tapping choregraphy that can all be performed at one time, and one conductors score. This epic arrangement is carefully composed with Rhythm Cup Explorations® choreography to excite your beginning, intermediate, and even late intermediate students about rhythm and performing.
Hava Nagila is the first Rhythm Cup Explorations® piece that is specifically composed to allow all 3 levels of cup tapping choreography to be performed at one time or you can also just choose one. Both ways will sound and look fantastic!
Hava Nagila with Rhythm Cups includes:
This Hava Nagila arrangement includes all of the items listed below. You will get links to each of these resources within seconds of your order being completed:
- A Mid to Late Intermediate piano solo arrangement
- Level 1 cup tapping routine choreographed for the arrangement
- Level 2 cup tapping routine choreographed for the arrangement
- Level 3 cup tapping routine choreographed for the arrangement
- 3 tempos of downloadable orchestrated tracks
- Bonus: Free access to 3 tempos of streaming tracks; Free access to training videos
What does the studio license mean?
This package comes with a Studio License which licenses you to make as many prints as you need for students that you directly teach for your lifetime of teaching! Each teacher needs their own license. But this means that you can perform this piece multiple times (perhaps with different levels in different years) and never have to purchase the music again.
How do I get access to the training videos and streaming tracks?
Once you have purchased, simply log into your account and click on the memberships tab. Click on your Hava Nagila Membership and you’ll see access to your tracks and training videos on one page.
How can students have access to the streaming tracks?
Students must have a membership to any of our other streaming tracks (Menagerie, Manipulations, Rhythm Cups 1 2 or My First Rhythm Cup Explorations®) to get access to the Hava Nagila Streaming Tracks. To access, just have them go to the tracks they already have and they’ll see MUSIC in the menu. This is where the Hava Nagila Tracks will be.
If student don’t currently have a subscription to any of our other streaming tracks, they can simply purchase this inexpensive subscription to our most basic Rhythm Cup Explorations 1 and get access for a minimal cost.
How can I use Hava Nagila creativity?
The sky’s the limit with what you can do with Hava Nagila with Cup Tapping. You can certainly perform it with all levels and even at a monster concert. But you could also perform it at a recital, for a school program, at a mall to help advertise for lessons…the sky’s the limit!
Note that if any other teachers wish their students to perform it with you, each teacher with students performing will need to purchase their own license of the piece. Only one teacher may use it with their students. Each teacher must purchase their own license.
Do we need to perform all 3 levels of Hava Nagila at once?
No, you certainly don’t have to! While they were composed to work together (should you want that), they also work splendidly separately. For example, you could just choose the Level 2 cup tapping choreography to use with the piano arrangement and it will sound fantastic. You do not need the other levels to sound “full.”
If you do want to cup tap all 3 levels together as an ensemble, just use different sized cups for your different levels. We recommend:
- Level 1 – 10 oz cups for Level 1 and stack two together with 2 pieces of scotch tape on the end. This will make them stronger (for those younger students) and also give them a slightly different timbre than the level 2 students.
- Levle 2 – 10 oz cups
- Level 3 – 16 oz cups
This is important to keep the timbres different so it doesn’t sound like cup tapping cacophony since the rhythms are slightly different.
Dorothy –
We had such a great time with the Nutcracker Rhythm Cups at our Christmas Recital in December. As soon as I saw “Hava Nagila with Rhythm Cups” I had to purchase it for my Spring Recital. My students are having so much fun with rhythm cups and parents enjoy watching and then trying their hand at cup tapping. It also makes Group Lessons quite special as we prepare for the recitals. Keep creating Wendy!
Martha Childers –
I like lots of things about Hava Nagila. This arrangement for rhythm cups just draws students into the music. My late intermediate student is learning the piano part to play while the younger students do the rhythm cup part. The three levels of cup tapping make it fit any studio, from beginning cup tappers to advanced. Since all of my students are experienced in cup tapping, I chose level 2. They love the ‘tremolo” & have picked up the more difficult rhythms by listening & repetition. The choice of three different tempos is also a plus. After they were able to do the slowest speed, we took it up a notch & they liked it even more. Lastly, this arrangement offers lots of practice in different dynamic levels. (I think Wendy’s suggestion of doubling the cups for strength might keep students from crushing theirs on the forte parts!) I hope you will consider using Hava Nagila in your studio. Your students will love it!
Teresa –
Yesterday’s group lesson was the best in years. A major part of that success was doing Hava nagila with rhythm cups. Rhythm cups are always the highlight of group lessons. What makes this one stand out was the music track that comes with it. After several times of the level one I told the children (9 to 13 years of age) that this was an Israeli song that is often danced to in a circle with arms on each others’ shoulders. They jumped up and said “can we do it”. I turned up the volume and such exuberant dancing as I had never seen in my studio. Remembering that a very strict mother was watching I glanced to see if she thought I was allowing too much rambunctiousness. Hah! She had googled on her smartphone and was telling the children the dance moves. We had to dance the whole thing three times!
It happened to be my birthday on our group lesson day. They didn’t know it, but my students gave me this wonderful gift on my day.
Jenny –
I have started using the Rhythm Cups Exploration in my studio and it’s a huge hit! Students ask for it and they are making so much progress in reading rhythms and keeping a steady beat.
For our Spring Recital, I had 21 of my students perform Have Nagila. All three levels. Well…my 6 year old grandson mostly just kept a steady beat, but he loved the table swoosh! I rehearsed everyone in their private lessons, and if they had siblings, we would sometimes do it together, but other than that, I didn’t get to have them rehearse together till 45 minutes before recital! I was a little nervous about that, but I think it turned out really well after only doing it all together 3 times. I wish we had been able to have more time to polish it, but the parents loved it!
Pamela –
Thank you so much, Wendy, for creating more music for the Jewish community. It is deeply appreciated. I really like your arrangement of Hava Nagila. It’s fresh and fun! It’s wonderful to use for studio celebrations of any kind, and of course, after participating in cup tapping, everyone’s feet are just itching to dance the hora!
Laura Benson –
I love using Wendy’s rhythm resources in my studio, including Rhythm Menagerie, Rhythm Manipulations, and the cup-tapping pieces, including the latest one, Hava Nagila. I used the Level 1 this past summer for a set of group lessons with Suzuki piano students entering 1st and 2nd grade who have been learning piano for one or more years. I prepared them by making one-measure large “flashcards” of the complex moves and we practiced them separately, before tackling piece. The children are still learning to track, so we used one copy for the 4 in the group and I did a lot of pointing as we went. For one session, the parents even joined in the tapping fun.