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Cub Scout Music

Cub Scout Academics and Sports Workbook


This workbook is not required but can help you with this award. Belt Loops and Pins may be earned more than once.
Links to other workbooks and resources are at the end of this workbook: Online Resources.
Send comments to the workbook developer: [email protected]. Workbook updated: April 2008.

Scout’s Name: ____________________________________________ Pack: ____________________________

Cub Scout Music Belt Loop (See the Pin Requirements below.)
Complete these three requirements:
1. Explain why music is an important part of our culture. ______________________________________________________
2. Pick a song with at least two verses and learn it by heart. ___________________________________________________
3. Listen to four different types of music either recorded or live.
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Cub Scout Music Pin
Earn the Cub Scout Music belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
 1. Make a musical instrument and play it for your family, den, or pack. ___________________________________________
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 2. Teach your den a song. _____________________________________________________________________________
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 3. Play a song by yourself or in a group, in unison or in harmony. _______________________________________________
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 4. Create an original melody and/or original words for a song. __________________________________________________
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 5. Using a tape recorder, capture natural sounds of the environment or record songs you create, and use your recording as a
soundtrack for a short skit or as background for a movement activity. __________________________________________
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Cub Scout Music Award p. 2 Cub Scout Workbook Scout's Name: ________________________
 6. Attend a live musical performance or concert. ____________________________________________________________
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 7. Demonstrate conducting patterns for two songs using two different meters (two-, three-, or four- beat meter) while your adult
partner or den members sing or play the songs you have selected. ____________________________________________
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 8. Take voice or dance lessons or lessons to learn to play an instrument. _________________________________________
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 9. Create movements to a piece of music without words to demonstrate the moods of the music: happy, sad, calm, excited,
playful, inspired. ___________________________________________________________________________________
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 10. Learn about a composer of some music that you enjoy. _____________________________________________________
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Online Resources (Use any Internet resource with caution and only with your parent’s or guardian’s supervision.)
Cub Scout Advancement: http://usscouts.org/advance/cubscout/ranks.asp
Tiger: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tiger Wolf: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wolf
Bear: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bear Webelos: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Webelos
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Workbooks: ► meritbadge.org -or- ►Academics / Sports
Webelos Activity Badge Workbooks: ► usscouts.org -or- ►meritbadge.org
Boy Scouts of America: http://www.scouting.org/ ►Guide to Safe Scouting ►Age-Appropriate Guidelines for Activities
ExpertVillage.com Lesson Videos: Learning to Sing Better How to Play Music Major & Minor Scales
Guitar Basics Play Piano Piano Chords
Classical Music Archives: http://www.classicalarchives.com Country Music Assn: http://www.cmaworld.com
Int. Bluegrass Music Assn: http://www.ibma.org Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: http://www.rockhall.com
Smithsonian: American Music: http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/american/music

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