Lesson video

Hello again, you wonderful lot.

Welcome to our music and movement unit, using symbols to represent pitch.

This lesson is called placing our new lower note on our simplified musical stave.

I'm really excited about this because we've already got three notes and now we're adding a new fourth one.

So let's go and we'll do that together.

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to hear the lowest note of a song and place it on our musical stave.

So let's begin by looking at our keywords for today.

We know that pitch is how high or how low a note is.

A note is a single sound in music.

A melody is a combination of notes to make a memorable tune.

And stave, the lines in which musical notes can be placed.

Now we remember how important it is to always warm up before we start to sing and play music.

So we're going to make our bodies warm and feel good and relaxed, and our voices too.

That means that we're going to gently stretch the muscles we use to sing.

Warming up is going to keep our voices safe.

So I'd like you to join in with these warmups so you're ready to sing where you are.

Here they come.

(wooden sticks banging) ♪ Reach up to the sky and down to the ground ♪ ♪ To the side, to the side ♪ ♪ Turn around and clap ♪ (children clapping) (wooden stick banging) ♪ Reach up to the sky and down to the ground ♪ ♪ To the side, to the side ♪ ♪ Turn around and clap ♪ (children clapping) (wooden stick banging) ♪ Reach up to the sky and down to the ground ♪ ♪ To the side, to the side ♪ ♪ Turn around and clap ♪ (children clapping) <v ->Let's warm up all the muscles of our faces.

</v> Show me your happy face.

Show me your grumpy face.

Show me your big face.

Show me your small face.

Show me your silly face.

Show me your thinking face.

Join in with these breathing exercises.

Copy me.

(hands rubbing) (instructor blowing) (instructor hissing) ♪ Ah, ah ♪ ♪ Ah, ah ♪ ♪ Ah, ah ♪ She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

<v ->Superb.

Good, really great.

</v> Okay, there are three songs and chants coming up now.

There's "Jelly on a Plate," "Walk and Stop" and "Dipidu," our Ugandan greeting song.

Of those three, I'd like to work through them.

It's gonna help your body feel warm and your voice feel warm, and you should be feeling focused.

♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plat ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ ♪ Wibble wobble, wibble wobble ♪ ♪ Jelly on a plate ♪ <v Instructor>Let's walk.

</v> (lively piano music) ♪ Oh, well, you walk and you walk and you walk and you stop ♪ ♪ Oh, well, you walk and you walk and you walk and you stop ♪ <v Instructor>Let's march.

</v> (lively piano music) ♪ Oh, well, you march and you march ♪ ♪ And you march and you stop ♪ ♪ Oh, well, you march and you march ♪ ♪ And you march and you stop ♪ <v Instructor>Let's skip.

</v> (lively piano music) ♪ Oh, well, you skip and you skip and you skip and you stop ♪ ♪ Oh, well, you skip and you skip and you skip and you stop ♪ <v Instructor>Let's hop.

</v> (lively piano music) ♪ Oh, well, you hop and you hop and you hop and you stop ♪ ♪ Oh, well, you hop and you hop and you hop and you stop ♪ <v Instructor>Let's fly.

</v> (lively piano music) ♪ Oh, well, you fly and you fly and you fly and you stop ♪ ♪ Oh, well, you fly and you fly and you fly and you stop ♪ ♪ Good day ♪ (hands clapping) ♪ Good day to you ♪ ♪ Good day ♪ ♪ Oh, dipidu ♪ ♪ Good day ♪ ♪ Good day to you ♪ ♪ Good day ♪ ♪ Oh, dipidu ♪ ♪ Dip, dipidu ♪ ♪ Dipidu, oh, Dipidu ♪ ♪ Dip, dip, dip, Dipidu ♪ ♪ Dipidu, oh, Dipidu ♪ <v ->So pause the video.

</v> There's the video clips if you need to remind yourselves how to play them.

Off you go.

Great stuff.

Hopefully just like Alex, Aisha and Lucas, your muscles are warm, they're relaxed, they're a bit more loose.

Your throat is feeling relaxed, you're probably feeling a bit more ready to concentrate, alert and focused.

If so, let's get cracking.

There are two learning cycles in today's lesson and the first one is identifying a new lower note.

And the second one is placing that new lower note on our musical stave.

So let's begin and identify a new lower note.

This new song and game comes from Zimbabwe.

It's called "Sorida." Now, after you've learned the song, we're going to practise clapping this game with a partner.

Here comes the clip to show you how to do it.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Sorida ♪ ♪ Sorida ♪ ♪ Rida rida ♪ ♪ Sorida ♪ ♪ Sorida ♪ ♪ Rida rida ♪ ♪ Da, da, da ♪ ♪ Da, da, da ♪ ♪ Rida rida ♪ ♪ Da, da, da ♪ ♪ Da, da, da ♪ ♪ Rida rida ♪ <v ->Excellent.

</v> So now you've got that, we're going to pause the video.

You can use the audio track to help you.

And I'd like you to sing "Sorida" and clap with a partner.

Off you go.

Very well done singing and clapping at the same time.

Great stuff.

Here's a new way now to play "Apple Tree." You actually pass an object around the circle, but you do it to a steady pulse as you sing.

So in time with the pulse.

And whoever has the object at the end of the song, if your apples knock me out, then you are out.

But don't worry, it's only for a little bit.

And when more and more people are out, more and more people will be tapping the pulse on their knees.

And that's important 'cause that helps everybody.

This should be lots of fun.

Okay, pause now.

You can use the audio track if you need to.

And remember that once you are out, you are keeping the steady pulse.

Go and play "Apple Tree" where you are.

Magic.

Really well done.

Now we're gonna play "Apple Tree" with our pitch actions.

Okay? And when we do, what I'd like you to notice is can you hear when the pitch is highest and can you hear when the pitch is lowest? So you'll pause the video now.

If you want to recap, there's a video clip for you to watch to remind yourselves how to play "Apple Tree" with our pitch actions, otherwise there's an audio track to sing along to.

So sing "Apple Tree" with pitch actions.

Off you go.

Marvellous.

And I wonder, did you spot which word is the pitch lowest in our song "Apple Tree?" I wonder if you got it.

You might have done the lowest action.

That will be a help.

Ah, Sam lets us know, "When the pitch was lowest, we touched our toes." So which word was that? The pitch was lowest when we sang the word out right at the end of the song.

Now, we've heard our new lowest note.

So this time we'll copy back each line of our song "Apple Tree" using the solfege syllables.

The track's going to come on and you can see the pitch actions here on the screen and they'll change as the song continues.

Are we ready? Standing well, ready for our pitch actions and to sing.

Here it comes.

♪ So, so, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, la, la ♪ ♪ So, so, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, mi, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, la, la ♪ ♪ So, so, mhm ♪ <v ->Ah, we touched our toes,</v> but we didn't know what to sing.

We've sang so, la and mi but what do we sing when we touch our toes? Izzy says, "The last note in the song isn't mi or so or la." The last note in the song is a new lower note.

And we call this note do.

Okay, so now we have mi, so, la and do.

Here is a new song and a game.

It's called "Ickle Ockle." There's a video about to come on and you'll see the children are going to swim around the room like fish in the sea, and at the end of the song, you find a partner, and you quickly sit down.

Okay, watch the clip first and then we'll pause for you to play "Ickle Ockle" where you are.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Ickle ockle blue bottle ♪ ♪ Fishes in the sea ♪ ♪ If you want a partner, please choose me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Ickle ockle blue bottle ♪ ♪ Fishes in the sea ♪ ♪ If you want a partner, please choose me ♪ <v ->Right then, have you got that?</v> Time to pause and play "Ickle Ockle" in your class.

Off you go.

Can you hear our new pitch, do in "Ickle Ockle?" Do is the lowest pitch in this melody.

So what we'll do is we'll sing "Ickle Ockle" with the pitch actions.

Now, if you'd like a video to show you how to do that, you can pause the video and watch that.

Otherwise there's an audio track for you to sing along to if you'd like to.

You can see on the screen the pitch actions for "Ickle ockle blue bottle, fishes in the sea and if you want a partner, please choose me." And on that last note, on do, we touch our toes and we know that that is our lowest note.

So pause the video and practise "Ickle Ockle" with the pitch actions where you are.

Brilliant, you are so quick at picking things up.

It's wonderful.

Okay, then which word in that song "Ickle Ockle" do we sing our new pitch do? Have a think through when did I make the lowest movement? What word was it? It was when we touched our toes.

Thanks, Jun.

The pitch was lowest when we touched our toes and we touched our toes on "me." The lowest note was right at the end of the song.

Do is the last note.

That's our new solfege syllable do.

Now, our melody of "Ickle Ockle" uses four different notes and they are our new lower pitch ♪ Do ♪ Then our low pitch.

♪ Mi ♪ Our high pitch.

♪ So ♪ And our higher pitch.

♪ La ♪ ♪ Do, mi, so, la ♪ There are the four notes in "Ickle Ockle." And we remember that word pitch, which means to describe how high or low the note is.

In a moment the track is going to come on and you're going to sing "Ickle Ockle" using the solfege syllables and performing those pitch actions as you do.

Make sure you have a space, be ready.

Here comes the track.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ So, so, mi, mi ♪ ♪ So, mi, mi ♪ ♪ So, so, la, la, so ♪ ♪ So, so, mi, mi ♪ ♪ So, mi ♪ ♪ So, mi, do ♪ <v ->And if you need to, you can pause the video</v> to practise that again where you are.

Really well done.

This is great.

Performing pitch actions as we sing can help us feel when the pitch is high or low.

And it helps us notice how that pitch is moving in the melody.

And thirdly, we can spot if there are patterns.

We can recognise patterns of notes in the melody because we might be repeating the same actions.

Really well done.

It's time to move on to our second learning cycle, placing our new lower note on a musical stave.

Here we go.

We can show do, our new solfege syllable, on a musical stave.

Now, we've seen our two line stave with low and high.

Do has an even lower pitch.

And so if mi sits on our low line.

Do sits on a lower line.

Okay? We're going to add a third line.

This is our new lower line to the stave.

So we have high, low, and this time lower.

Notice how do is placed on the stave.

As Sofia explains, do has the line going through the middle, like it's threaded on like a bead.

Here we can see all four notes on our stave.

So going from the lower line, do, to our low line, mi, up to our high line, so, and then higher, la.

Do, mi, so, la.

And as you hear the pitch getting higher, you can see those solfege syllables, our notes get higher on the stave.

They're written on a higher line.

Andeep says, "Notes with a low pitch are placed lower on the stave, and notes with a higher pitch are higher on the stave." Which of the following pictures shows do? Is it A where the note is on the lower line, B, where it's sitting on higher, or is it C in the low line? Have a check.

Which shows do, A, B, or C? I think you've got it.

It is A, well done.

That is where our new lower note, do, sits.

Now, your final task for today is to sing "Ickle Ockle" with the pitch actions.

And then there are some missing solfege syllables on our stave.

Now, pay close attention to the second half of the song because that is what we're going to write down.

We are looking at, "If you want a partner, please choose me." Okay? So you'll pause the video.

If you'd like to watch the clip that shows the pitch actions to "Ickle Ockle," do that first, then sing using those pitch actions.

And lastly, complete the second half of the song, "If you want a partner, please choose me." You're going to write the correct solfege syllables next to those notes.

Okay, pause the video, enjoy singing and I'll see you in a bit.

Fabulous.

Let's see how we did.

I'm sure your singing was wonderful and hopefully those actions helped to know where we're placing do, mi, so and la on our musical stave.

Okay, let's have a check.

The first part, if you want a partner.

So, so, mi, mi, so, mi.

Have a check if you got that bit right.

You can always sing along with it and see if the notes are getting lower when you're singing lower.

That will help.

And the second part, "Please choose me." Have a look.

Have you got the correct so, mi, do? If you have, absolutely brilliant, really, really well done.

Hopefully those pitch actions are helping you choose which of our notes are solfege syllables go where on the stave.

And you've just completed another lesson.

Really well done.

Let's have a recap on what we've learned today.

As in every lesson, we warm up our voices before singing to keep it safe, to prevent it from injury.

We know the notes we sing can be high or low in pitch, and we can show the pitch with actions as we sing.

That helps us hear whether the notes are higher or lower.

And we can show high or low on a musical stave.

We could also place our new note do on a musical stave, and we know it's the lowest pitch we've found.

It has a lower pitch than mi.

Really well done for today.

Great singing, great moving, great playing, and wonderful notating.

See you next time.