This powerpoint will show you how to scaffold improvisation and play along with Donkey Kong Country music. The music was composed by David Wise. It starts with guided listening, learning a poem to speak, taking the poem to an instrument, making a plan for how to play the rhythm of the words of the poem, and improvising using the pentatonic scale. The powerpoint has the music embedded in the slides. This activity would be appropriate for 3-6th grades general music using Orff instruments, or if yo