MUSIC ZONE
Complete five of the following clauses. If you complete a further five clauses you will get a second badge.

1 With your Patrol or some friends, choose three pieces of music and listen to them. Each put the three in order of preference. Do you all agree? Can you explain why you think what you do? If you play an instrument, you could do this with three pieces you play. If you play in a group it could be pieces your group play and you could discuss it with other members of the group.

2 Make a tape of a piece of your own 'music' and listen to it with your Patrol. You could do this in various ways, for example you could compose and perform a tune or song, collect sounds which hold some meaning for you (such as birdsong, traffic, etc) or make up a sound story using everyday sounds.

3 Use a favourite piece of music in an interesting way. This could be making up a dance or aerobics routine to it or something more unusual like painting a picture of what you see when you listen to the music.

4 Help organise a unit campfire or a show for parents or others or take part in a District, Division or County campfire.

5 Make and play your own instrument.

6 Go to a concert or musical performance. This could be with family, friends, your Patrol or your unit. Afterwards tell an interested adult about it.

7 Investigate the history or use in other countries of some of the music and songs used at Guides such as Taps. Learn Taps in another language or learn to sign it.

8 Make your own campfire song book.

9 Make up a musical quiz for other members of your unit or perhaps for Brownies and Rainbows. Be as imaginative as you can about what sorts of questions you use.

10 Find out and explain to somebody else the importance of doing breathing exercises before you sing or play a musical instrument, or show somebody else what you do to combat nerves before a performance.

11 Learn or find out about a song or piece of music from three different cultures and create an illustration for one of them to go into a songbook or music book.

12 Learn how to DJ using the kind of record decks and mixing decks that professional DJs use. In front of your friends, family or Patrol, show them that you can mix two records or CDs together to form one continuous beat (so that the beat of the two tracks forms one continuous noise). Make a tape of yourself doing this to play to your unit, or if you can borrow some equipment for a long enough time and feel confident enough, arrange to DJ at a party for your Patrol or unit.