Lesson video

Hello musicians.

It's Mrs. Steele here for another music lesson.

Today's lesson is called Echoing Simple Rhythm Patterns, and we are going to have an amazing time.

Let's find out what we're going to learn today.

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to echo a rhythm in time, and you will know that rhythm is the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.

Let's start by looking at the key words that we're going to need in our learning today.

Pulse, the regular steady heartbeat of the music.

Syllable, a part of a word.

Rhythm, the pattern of sounds we play and sing.

Percussion instrument, a device used to make a musical sound, which is played by striking, scraping, or shaking.

And an echo, an exact copy of a musical phrase.

It's very important that we warm up our voices and our bodies so that we are ready to sing.

Join in with these whole body warmups where you are.

Here comes the video.

(funky music) Let's warm up our bodies.

We'll start with our shoulders.

And let's say hello to our arms. And the other arm.

And our middle.

(hands smacking) All the way down to our toes.

Give your toes a wiggle.

Let's go to a restaurant.

I wonder what's on the menu today.

(surprised gasping) Our first course is delicious garlic bread.

Chew some garlic bread.

Mmm, mmm.

It's delicious.

Mmm, mmm, mm.

What's on the menu next? (surprise gasping) It's a worm burger.

Ewwwww! I'll give that to you.

Oh, disgusting.

(gurgling and gagging) Oh, horrible.

(gurgling and gagging) Oh, what's coming up next? Phew.

It's chocolate ice cream.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Show me how delicious it is.

Mmmm! Chocolate ice cream, mmm, mmm, mmm.

And to finish our meal at this amazing restaurant.

It's some spider squash.

Give it a taste.

(disgusted gagging) Disgusting.

Are you ready? Are you ready? (gasping) Good.

(breathing heavily) Ready? (buzzing) Ready? My turn.

♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ ♪ Busy, buzzy bumble bees ♪ Here are two songs and a chant to help us warm up even further.

We start with Standing Tall.

Watch the video and join in.

This is an echo song.

You're going to copy me.

♪ Standing tall ♪ ♪ Standing tall ♪ ♪ Try not to fall ♪ ♪ Try not to fall ♪ ♪ Mouth open wide ♪ ♪ Mouth open wide ♪ ♪ Hands by your side ♪ ♪ Hands by your side ♪ ♪ Feet apart ♪ ♪ Feet apart ♪ ♪ Sing from your heart ♪ ♪ Sing from your heart ♪ ♪ Singing strong ♪ ♪ Singing strong ♪ ♪ 'Til the end of the song ♪ ♪ Til the end of the song ♪ And now it's the echo song, Boom Chicka Boom.

Watch carefully for when it's my turn and your turn to echo me.

Here comes the video.

(jazzy snapping) ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rock a chicka rock a chicka boom ♪ ♪ Aha ♪ ♪ Ehe ♪ One more time in a squeaky voice.

♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rock a chicka rock a chicka boom ♪ ♪ Aha ♪ ♪ Ehe ♪ One more time.

Low and strong.

♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rock a chicka rock a chicka boom ♪ ♪ Aha ♪ ♪ Ehe ♪ One more time.

Just a whisper.

♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rock a chicka rock a chicka boom ♪ ♪ Aha ♪ ♪ Ehe ♪ <v ->And finally watch the video</v> and join in with the song, Baby One, Two, Three.

Here it comes.

(soft music) ♪ Head and shoulders, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Head and shoulders, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Head and shoulders, head and shoulders, head and shoulders ♪ ♪ Baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, shoulders, elbows, shoulders, elbows ♪ ♪ Baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, elbows, knees, elbows, knees ♪ ♪ Baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, baby one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes ♪ ♪ Baby one, two, three ♪ Let's find out if you're ready to sing.

Does your body feel relaxed and ready? Is your voice warm? And do you feel focused? Brilliant.

You're ready to sing.

Let's explore rhythm together through our songs and chants.

Sing and follow the movements in time to the steady pulse to our action song, Beetle On My Toe.

We're going to begin by marching on the spot, then bending our knees in time to the steady pulse, tapping our nose.

And finally, we're going to wave our arms in time to the steady pulse.

Pause the video here and sing the whole song.

Remember to keep your actions in time with the steady pulse.

We have a new challenge with our song Beetle On My Toe now.

This time, every time you need to sing the word Beetle, we're going to do some body percussion instead of saying the word.

In the first verse, instead of saying beetle, we're going to stomp, stomp.

It will sound like this.

♪ There's a ♪ ♪ On my toe ♪ ♪ On my toe ♪ ♪ On my toe ♪ And so on.

In the second verse, we're going to tap, tap on our knees.

♪ There's a ♪ ♪ On my knee ♪ ♪ On my knee ♪ ♪ On my knee ♪ In the next verse, we will clap, clap.

♪ There's a ♪ (clapping hands) ♪ On my nose ♪ And finally we will pat, pat on our heads Instead of singing the word beetle.

♪ There's a ♪ ♪ On my head ♪ Pause the video and have a go at There's a Beetle on my Toe with your body percussion actions.

There are two parts to the word beetle.

Bee, tle.

That's why we stamped, tapped, clapped and patted two times.

Bee, tle.

We call these parts of words syllables.

Syllables.

Syllables.

The word beetle has two syllables.

It's time for a check-in.

Can you work out how many syllables these words have? Our first word is spider.

My top tip for working out syllables is to count the chin bumps.

When I put my chin on my hand and say the word spider, spider, however many chin bumps I can count is the number of syllables in the word.

Try it with spider.

Spider has two syllables.

Well done if you spotted that.

How about butterfly? Butterfly.

How many syllables? Butterfly has three syllables.

Well done if you got that right.

Ant, how many syllables in the word ant? It has one.

What about cricket? Cricket.

Well done if you got that right.

Cricket has two syllables.

You're syllable experts now, great work.

Here's another video of Bee, Bee, Bumblebee.

Can you copy the teacher's actions? It's me, actually.

Do you notice something different about what I'm doing? Here comes the video.

Copy me.

♪ Bee, bee, bumblebee.

♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ Let's try that all together.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Bee, bee, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ Our songs and chants have a steady pulse we can play as a beat.

Our songs and chants also have a rhythm.

Rhythm.

Rhythm.

The rhythm is the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.

Join in with the video of Bee, Bee Bumblebee again.

Do you notice that my actions follow the patterns of the syllables in the words I sing? Not the beat.

So when you join in, you are doing actions to the rhythm of the chant.

Here comes the video for you to have a go.

Copy me.

♪ Bee, bee, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ Let's try that all together.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Bee, bee bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ It's time for a check-in with our learning.

Watch the video and answer the question.

True or false? These pupils are doing the actions on the rhythm of the chant.

Here comes the video.

(gentle tapping) ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Bee, bee, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ ♪ Bee, bee bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ ♪ Bee, bee bumblebee ♪ ♪ Stung a man upon his knee ♪ ♪ Stung a pig upon his snout ♪ ♪ I declare that you are out ♪ What did you think? Well done if you spotted that that was false.

The pupils are moving to the steady beat.

They're not doing actions on every syllable so they're not clapping the rhythm this time.

Well done if you spotted that.

We're going to use body percussion now to play some of the rhythms in our song Minibeasts Party.

Every time you need to sing the response ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ tap the rhythm on your palm instead like this.

(soft tapping) If you want to, you can pause this video now and use the audio clip to practise that.

Now it's time to split into two groups.

One group will sing the calls.

♪ Friday night and it's half past eight ♪ While the other group will tap the rhythm responses.

(soft tapping) ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ (soft music) ♪ Friday night and it's half past eight ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Time to dance and celebrate ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ (soft music) ♪ Spider's running very late ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Finding shoes, she'll need eight ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ (soft music) ♪ Ants arriving at the gate ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Feasts of leaves upon their plate ♪ ♪ Minibeasts are feeling great ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ (soft music) ♪ Underneath the star so bright ♪ ♪ Minibeasts stands through the night ♪ ♪ Wriggling, crawling, marching to ♪ ♪ Creepy crawly rendezvous ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast party ♪ ♪ Party, party, minibeast bop ♪ Were you tapping the rhythm? Minibeasts are feeling great.

Correctly? You might want to pause the video now and have a check.

Now it's time to control our percussion instruments and echo rhythms. We can play rhythms using our bodies.

We call this body percussion.

Remember that the rhythm is the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.

Watch this video and copy the rhythms played on body percussion.

Here it comes.

Copy me.

(light tapping) It's time for a check-in.

Can you echo your teacher's rhythms? Maybe you can suggest the body percussion to use.

If you'd like to, you could pause the video here and check each sound button to hear what each rhythm sounds like.

The first one is ant, ant, spider, ant.

Pause the video and copy your teacher's rhythms. It's time to practise controlling our percussion instruments now.

Choose an instrument.

Remember to think about what it might be called.

How do you make a sound with your instrument? Are there any different ways you can make a sound? And how would you describe its timbre, the sound that an instrument makes that can help us identify it.

Using a leader, practise starting and stopping together.

Here are the signals.

To start and to stop.

You can also use your leader to practise changing how loud you play.

Quiet or loud.

Here are two more signals that your leader could use to change how fast you play.

Slow and fast.

Pause the video here and have a go at playing your percussion instruments following the leader.

It's time for a check-in.

Which action from your leader means play louder? Is it A, this action? B, this one? Or C, this action? Pause the video and decide where you are.

Well done if you remembered that B is the action that means play louder.

Echo these minibeast rhythms on your percussion instruments using the music to help you keep a steady pulse.

The first rhythm is ant, ant, ant, ant.

You could say the minisbeasts names out loud if that helps you to stay in time.

Pause the video here and use the music to help you keep a steady pulse with this rhythm.

Here are two more rhythms to try to echo with your percussion instruments.

Remember, you can say the names of the minibeasts to help you stay in time.

Pause the video and have a go at rhythm two and rhythm three.

So how do we know if we're playing the rhythms correctly? We play together at the same time and we keep a steady pulse.

What could we do to get better? You could say the minibeasts names out loud.

I wonder if you were doing that.

That means the syllables can help and you can feel the pulse by tapping our feet or nodding our head.

Well done if you were doing any of those things.

Let's finish our lesson today by having a moment to think about all the things that we've been learning.

We know that we warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds, and voices are ready.

We can sing and move in time to a steady pulse and find the rhythm in our songs and chants.

We can control changes on our percussion instruments, starting playing, and stopping together, and we can echo rhythmic phrases when playing our percussion instruments.

Great musical learning, everyone.

Until next time, bye.