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Hello, my name is Miss Miner and welcome to this music unit all about exploring metre.

I'm really excited to be guiding you through this unit.

So without further ado, let's get going.

What will we cover in this lesson? We'll start off with a warm up all about pulse.

We will then learn two songs in three and four time.

We will recap simple rhythms in three and four time.

And finally, we will write a rhythm in three time.

In this lesson, you will need, your body, two plastic cups, some paper or the worksheet provided, and a pencil.

Do pause the video now to get any of those things.

When you've got them, make sure you're in a quiet place where you won't be distracted and sure to turn off any notifications on any apps or conversations you have running.

When you're distraction free, let's go.

What is the pulse? Is it the heartbeat of the music? Is it the pattern of the sounds? Is it the volume of the music or is it the speed of the music? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done, it's the heartbeat of the music.

So we're now going to learn a song called Chumbara and Chumbara is in fact a totally nonsense word.

It doesn't mean anything at all and could technically be replaced by any other three syllable word you can think of.

The song goes like this.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum ♪ Let's learn it bit by bit, and we're going to learn it with the body percussion as we go.

My turn first and then yours.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Ready steady off you go ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ Super, the next section goes like this.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum ♪ You're turn, off you go.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum ♪ Super, we're going to glue those two sections together.

So it goes like this, my turn first and then yours.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum ♪ ♪ Ready steady off you go ♪ Super well done.

If you had any problems with that first section, please do rewind the video and have another go.

Super, the bar that comes after what we've just learned is this, ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ and those of you that may be learning instruments or might have done some music theory might recognise that as a descending major scale.

♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ ♪ Do do ti la so fa mi re ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ So we coming down in steps.

We jumped a great big octave leap and then come down in steps, my turn, and then yours.

♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ ♪ Ready steady your turn ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ Super, we're going to glue that to the section that came before.

So now it sounds like this, my turn.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ You're turn.

♪ Ready steady off you go ♪ Super.

The second section of this song sounds almost exactly the same as the first section.

See if you can spot the difference.

♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum ♪ Did you spot the difference? Yes it's that last bar instead of, ♪ Chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum ♪ We just have, ♪ Chum chum chum ♪ Let's see if we can try the whole of that second section.

♪ Ready steady together go ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum chum chum ♪ Well done.

Pause the video to practise the song when you're ready, press play and we'll carry on.

So what does Chumbara mean? Does it mean good morning.

Welcome.

It's nonsense.

It doesn't mean anything at all.

Or does it mean we love music? Absolutely.

Its, is nonsense.

Pause the video to practise the cup pattern.

If you can try singing the song at the same time.

When you're ready, press play, and we'll continue.

For the next song, we're going to learn a Polish dance song called "Oi Dana," and it goes like this.

♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ I'll do that one more time.

I'd like you to look very carefully at what I'm doing with the cups.

♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ We're going to learn just the words and the singing for this first, before we put that cup ostinato with it.

So it goes like this, my turn first and then yours.

♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ Let's try the whole thing all the way through and I will try and show you the melody with my finger as we go.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ Well done.

So now it's time to learn the cup ostinato.

That's a repeated pattern that goes with this song.

Now if you don't have two cups, please don't worry, as you can use body percussion to do this.

So you can do, knees, click, click.

The cup pattern is this, One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Let's try that together.

Off, we go.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Super.

As I said, if you don't have cups, you can do this instead.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Now the challenge is to see if you can keep that ostinato going as you sing the melody over the top ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ Well done.

Pause the video to practise the song.

When you've finished press play and we'll carry on.

So how did the cup pattern vary between "Oi dana" and "Chumbara"? Is it that we swapped the cups from hand to hand in one song and kept them with the same hand in the other? Or is it that there were few cup beats in the "Oi dana" pattern than there were in the "Chumbara" pattern? Point to the answer you think fits.

Yes, that's right.

There were fewer cup beats in the "Oi dana" pattern, than there were in the "Chumbara" pattern.

In fact, "Oi dana" only had three beats and "Chumbara" had four.

So some of you may have seen these note values before, but don't worry if you haven't, I'm going to take you through some simple steps to be able to decode these.

This first note value is known as a crotchet, but the way we're going to say it and perform it is like this, Ta.

Let's try that together, off we go, Ta.

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Super.

This note value is called Ti-ti, or you might know it as a quaver or two quavers put together, but for now we're going to say, Ti-ti.

Have a go at that.

Well done.

So on this page, we now have a "Ta" and a "Ti-ti".

Each of those quavers is worth a half.

So together the two halves make a whole the same value as that crotchet or that "Ta".

So let's have a look at the first rhythm on the slide, which goes like this, Ta Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Let's try it together, off we go.

Ta Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Super and if you have a look over the top, you can see those heartbeats where the pulse lies.

Let's have a look at the second rhythm on the slide, which goes like this, Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Ta Let's try that together, off we go, Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Ta And again, you can look over the top and see where the pulse falls.

Just like in maths, two of our half notes or our "Ti-ti's" fit together to make one beat.

That's why there's two of what looks like two note values underneath just one heartbeat there.

On the screen you can see another rhythm.

This goes, Ti-ti Ti-ti Ti-ti.

Can you clap that for me? Absolutely.

Now I want you to think about where the beats would lie in this rhythm.

If you were to put a circle round each whole beat, where would the circles be? And how many circles would you have? Absolutely.

That is a three, beat rhythm pattern.

Try clapping this rhythm for me.

That's right.

It goes, Ti-ti Ti-ti Ta Now I want you to have a think about where those beats would fall.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

That is another three beat pattern.

Here is another new note value and what makes this look different to the crotchet is the fact that the note head is not filled in, in fact, it's left clear.

This is called a minim, or some people might know this as, Ta-aa, which is what we're going to do today.

It fills two beats.

It's like one of those enormous stretch, limos that in fact, fills two car parking spaces, not just one.

So it goes, Ta-aa, try that now.

Super well done.

So let's have a look at the first rhythm now on the slide, it goes like this, Ta Ti-ti Ta-aa.

I'd like you to have a go, off you go.

Well done.

Let's have a look at the next rhythm.

That one goes, Ta-aa, Ti-ti.

Now it's your turn, off you go.

Ta-aa, Ti-ti.

Super.

Do have a closer look at where those heartbeats fall within each of the bars? We do need to remember that those minims or those Ta-aas take up two beats of the bar, not just one.

Now I am going to clap one of these rhythms, and I would like you to tell me, which rhythm I am clapping.

Here is the rhythm.

Rhythm one or rhythm two? That's right.

That was rhythm one.

How about this rhythm? Rhythm one or rhythm two? That's correct.

That was rhythm two.

What do you notice about rhythm one and rhythm two in terms of their metre or their beats per bar? Have a think about how many beats in total are in rhythm one and how many beats in total are in rhythm two.

Which rhythm has this shorter or the smaller metre, less beats per bar? Yes, that's absolutely right.

The second rhythm only has three beats in the bar, whereas the first rhythm has four beats in the bar.

So here comes a vocabulary reminder for you.

Rhythm is that pattern of sounds.

Pause to practise these rhythms on the screen.

When you've practised all three press play.

What is rhythm? Is it the pattern of sounds or the heartbeat to the music? Yes, that's right.

It's the pattern of the sounds, the heartbeat of the music would be the pulse.

So now you have all the tools you need to be able to read the rhythm on this screen.

So let's have a go together.

Ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa.

Ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa.

Ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa.

Ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa.

First of all do you notice any similarities or any bars that are the same or phrases that might be repeated or the same in this music? Yes, you're absolutely right.

The rhythm of those first two bars are repeated a further three times making it much, much easier to read than in fact, you first might've thought.

Did you recognise that rhythm at all? No? How about I add some pictures to it and see if you recognise it now.

Yes you may have recognised that as "Oi dana".

Absolutely well done.

That's the song that we were doing just earlier in this lesson.

If you have a look over the top, you can see where each of the beats fall.

Every so often in this music, you have great big lines that go from the top to the bottom of the music, not the stems on the notes, but great big lines and these are called bar lines and these help separate our notes and our rhythms into groups.

Now I want to ask you how many beats, are in each bar? Don't forget that a Ta-aa or a minim is worth two beats.

And the Ti-ti is two halves that go together to make one.

So now is your opportunity to do that little bit of maths and tell me how many beats are in each bar.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

They're three beats in each bar and we in fact knew that already because our cup pattern when learning that song was this, one, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Well done.

Metre, the grouping of pulse into strong and weak beats defined by the time signature.

Pause the video to practise clapping "Oi dana" while saying the rhythm names out loud, for example, you would do this, Ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa, ta ta ta ti-ti ta-aa and so on.

When you finished press play and we'll carry on.

What is metre? Is it the heartbeat of the music? Is it the grouping of pulse into strong and weak beats defined by the time signature? Is it the pattern of sounds? Or is it the size of the sheet music, in centimetres? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

It's the grouping of pulse into strong and weak beats defined by the time signature.

So here comes your challenge.

Can you compose your own three, beat rhythm to be played underneath "Oi dana" as an ostinato? Can you sing "Oi dana" and clap the ostinato at the same time? So I have had a go at this challenge myself and I have chosen three note values, two of the same note value and one ti-ti to go into my three beat rhythm grid.

That is going to form my ostinato or repeated pattern that I will clap underneath my singing.

The rhythm I have composed is this, ta ti-ti ta, ta ti-ti ta, ta ti-ti ta, ta ti-ti ta, So now my challenge is to be able to clap that rhythm while singing the melody of "Oi dana" over the top.

♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ ♪ Oi dana ♪ I can't wait to see what ostinato rhythms you create with the note values you've learned today.

And as that extra challenge, it would be amazing if you can sing the tune while clapping that ostinato at the same time.

Good luck.

So that brings us to the end of the lesson, a really big well done on all the fantastic learning you've achieved in this lesson.

I've got two final things I'd like you to do now.

Firstly, think back and identify one key thing you've learned today.

It's totally up to you what it is.

Secondly, if you'd like to, please take a picture of your work and ask your parent or carer to share it with your teacher so that they can see all the fantastic things you've learned.

If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and hashtag learn with Oak.

Now don't forget to complete the end of lesson quiz.

Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you, take care and enjoy the rest of your learning for today.

Bye.