Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

♪ Ready, off I go, welcome everybody.

♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing.

♪ ♪ Welcome everybody, it's time for us to sing.

♪ ♪ One, two, ♪ ♪ three, four, ♪ ♪ five, six, ♪ ♪ seven, eight, ♪ ♪ nine, 10.

♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing.

♪ Join in with me.

♪ Ready, off I go, welcome everybody.

♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing.

♪ ♪ Welcome everybody, it's time for us to sing.

♪ ♪ One, two, ♪ ♪ three, four, ♪ ♪ five, six, ♪ ♪ seven, eight, ♪ ♪ nine, 10.

♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing.

♪ Good job.

I've got my friend Higetty Tiggety here and he wants to know your name.

He's going to sing his song to you and you're going to sing it back to him.

I'm going to go first to show you what I mean.

♪ Higetty Tiggety Bumblebee.

♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ ♪ My name's Miss Glover.

♪ What's your name? Great, let's try.

♪ Higgety Tiggety Bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ Very good, let's try one more time.

♪ Higetty Tiggety Bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me? ♪ Well done you.

Now we're ready to do some learning.

Today we're going to learn to write musical symbols, to use my knowledge, to compose a simple rhythm, to improvise a four beat pattern and to listen carefully to instructions.

In this lesson, you will need: your body, give us a wave, your voice, say hello, and a piece of paper and pencil.

Pause the video to go and get a piece of paper and a pencil now.

You can press play again once you're finished.

Do you remember the game "Simon Says"? Let's have a go.

Remember if Simon tells you to do something, you do it, but if Simon doesn't tell you to do it, you don't do it.

We'll have a practise run first.

Simon says ta, ta, ti ti, ta.

Did you do it? I hope so because Simon told you to, but if I go You don't copy it because Simon didn't say.

Let's have a try.

Simon says ta, ta, ti ti, ta.

Simon says ta, ta, ta, ti ti.

Simon says ti ti, ta, ti ti, ta.

Simon says ta, ta, ta, ta.

Simon says ta, ti ti, ta, ti ti.

Simon says ta, ta, shh, ta.

Ta, ti ti, ta, ta.

Ah, did you do it? I hope you didn't Simon didn't tell you to.

Let's have another try.

Simon says ta, shh, shh, ta.

Simon says ta, shh, shh, ta, shh shh Simon says Simon says, Simon says, I hope you didn't join in.

Fantastic work, everyone.

We're going to be composing a four beat pattern today.

You can use these symbols for ta, titi, and shh, to create your own four beat pattern by putting each of the symbols under one of the heartbeats.

I've made my pattern here.

My pattern says ta, ti ti, ta, shh, but you can use any of those symbols in any order.

Why don't you have a go at writing this down on your paper by drawing for heartbeats and filling in the spaces under the heartbeats with your rhythm.

You can press play again once you're finished.

Did you have a go at writing your own patterns? Today, what we're going to do is have a go at improvising patterns.

When I clap a pattern to you like this one here ta, ti ti, ta, shh.

You're not going to reply with the same pattern, you're going to reply with a different four beat pattern, for example, ti ti, ti ti, ti ti, ta.

This would sound like this.

I would go ta, titi, ta, shh.

And you would reply, Titi, titi, titi, ta.

Let's have a go.

This time when I clap a rhythm to you instead of clapping the same rhythm back I want you to come up with your own rhythm to reply with.

For example, if I clapped ta, ta, titi, ta, you might respond with titi, titi, titi, ta, or if I clapped ta, shh, ta, ta, you might respond with titi, ta, ta, ta.

Or if I clapped ta, ta, ta, ta, you might respond with ta, shh, shh, ta, It's up to you.

We have four beats for you to reply in, so you can choose any of those symbols four times to make your pattern.

Let's have a go.

I'm going to clap a rhythm to you, then I'll leave you four beats for your response.

After four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four One, two, three, four One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Did you do your responses? I hope you did.

Fantastic job.

Let's try one more time.

One, two, three four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Did you fit your responses in? I hope you did.

Why don't you try playing that game with someone in your family? See how creative you can be with your responses.

This is called improvisation.

That's a long word meaning you make up your own idea in the gap.

You've done a great job.

Well done.

If we were in a classroom right now, I would have a drum and I'd be coming round saying, "Listen, listen, here I come.

Someone special gets my drum." And whoever I would land on would have a go at playing their own four beat pattern on the drum.

But since we're not in a classroom right now it's even better because you get to have a turn every single time.

So I'm going to say my little rhyme.

When I finish, you've got the count of four beats to try and fit in your pattern.

I'll give you an example first.

After that, it will be your turn.

Listen, listen, here I come.

Someone special gets my drum.

Do you see, I fitted in my pattern in four beats.

I'm using my pen and I'm bashing it on my table.

Maybe you could use your pencil or something like a drum stick.

If not though, you can always use your hands or your knees or any part of your body that we've learned to make sounds with.

Are you ready for your turn? Listen, listen, here I come.

Someone special gets my drum.

Did you respond with your pattern? I hope so.

Lets have another try.

Listen, listen, here I come.

Someone special gets my drum.

Fantastic, One more time.

Listen, listen here I come.

Someone special gets my drum.

Good job.

Last time.

Listen, listen, here I come.

Someone special gets my drum.

Two, three, four.

Fantastic.

Well done you for fitting your own patterns into those four beats.

Good improvisation.

Pause the video to challenge the people you live with to improvise their own rhythm.

You can press play again once you're finished.

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Time to listen.

I wonder what rhythms you can hear in this piece of music.

This is a Horn Concerto, Number 4, Movement 3 and it's by a composer called Mozart.

Today we have learnt to write musical Symbols, to use our knowledge, to compose a simple rhythm, to improvise a four beat pattern, and to listen carefully to instructions.

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