Lesson video

Hi, everybody.

Welcome to my music room.

♪ 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, ten, it's time for us to sing ♪ Let's try that again and you can join in with me this time.

♪ Ready, off we 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, ten, it's time for us to sing ♪ Beautiful.

What a great start? Can you see who's joining me? It's Higgety Tiggety bumble bee and he'd loved to know your name.

I'll start.

♪ Higgety Tiggety bumble bee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name for me ♪ That's his question.

I would sing.

♪ My name's Miss Kilpatrick ♪ He'd love to know your name.

Can you sing your name? I'll ask the question.

♪ Higgety Tiggety bumble bee, can you sing your name for me ♪ Great.

I'm pretty sure I had everyone's names that time.

Today, we're going to be learning how to use our bodies in different ways.

We're going to be learning to use our bodies to make a piece of music.

We're going to be learning to identify sounds by using our ears and listening really carefully.

And then we're going to listen to a performance of some body sounds.

In this lesson, you will need your body and your voice.

Today, we're learning about making sounds with our bodies.

Hm.

What sounds can you make with your body? We could do this.

We could do this.

We could do this.

What sounds can you think of? Shout them out.

That's a great one.

I heard somebody say patting our tummies.

What else? Oh, really nice one.

We can click our nails.

That's a very quiet sound.

Anymore? We can stump our feet.

Anymore? You've got such good ideas.

Pause the video now to experiment with how many sounds you can make with your body.

See just how many different ones you can find.

You can press play when you're finished.

Welcome back.

How many sounds did you find? Did you find this one? Or this one? Or what about this one? If you didn't, have a go.

Does it sound different if I do this? Have a little experiment.

How many different sounds can you make just using that? Well done, some great ideas.

We're going to use some of your ideas to make a pattern.

It's going to be a repeating pattern.

And in music, we call that an ostinato.

Can you say that with me? Ostinato.

Excellent.

Well done, a repeating pattern.

So I'm going to teach you my repeating pattern.

And then I'm going to ask you to go and have a go at making one of your own.

So my repeating pattern is going to go like this.

Have you got it? I'm going to do that again.

I'm going to speak at this time so you can really hear it.

It goes.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby, dooby doo.

Let's learn it in small sections.

If you can't click your fingers, you can always just squeeze your hands together like this.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

So the first part goes like this.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, your turn.

Great.

That we do three times.

So it goes like this.

Off we go, together.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Second time.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Third time.

That's the beginning of our pattern.

Let's try that again.

Ready? Steady, off we go.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

The last bit, we're going to pat our knees to this pattern.

Dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, doo.

I'm going to use both my hands.

Dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, doo.

Got it? Let's try it together.

One, two, off we go.

Dooby dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, doo.

Let's do that one more time.

One, two, off we go.

Dooby, dooby dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, doo.

Can we put the whole thing together? The click clap pattern three times with the knee pats at the end.

One, two, off we go.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby doo.

Did you get it? Let's do it one more time just to be really safe.

One, two, off we go.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby, dooby doo.

Brilliant.

You can always go back in the video and watch it again if you want to do some more practise.

But now it's your turn.

Pause the video to create your own body percussion pattern.

You can press play once you're ready.

How did you get on? Your pattern sounded brilliant from where I was listening.

I'm going to use my repeated pattern.

Do you remember the musical word for that? It was ostinato.

Let's say it again, one more time.

Ostinato.

Excellent, the repeating pattern.

I'm going to use my body percussion ostinato to accompany a song.

My song goes like this.

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ I'll teach that, a line at a time.

It goes like this.

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ Let's try that again.

My turn, your turn.

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ Let's try the whole thing together with me.

♪ One, two off we go.

♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ So now we've learnt our song, I'm going to put my ostinato underneath as an accompaniment.

So it will go something like this.

This was my pattern.

Remember, it went.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

Click, clap, click, click, clap.

I'm not going to use the leg pats this time because they won't fit with my song.

So I'm just going to use the clapping and clicking.

I'm going to do two patterns to start and then I'm going to start the song and you can sing with me and join in the ostinato if you can.

Are you ready? One, two off we go.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ I'm going to try it one more time.

One, two, off we go.

♪ Of we go ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen, oh yes I know ♪ ♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ♪ ♪ Strumming on the old banjo ♪ Pause the video to experiment with making your own repeated pattern.

Choose a song that you love and try to make a pattern that goes underneath that you can repeat over and over that's an ostinato.

You can press play once you're ready to perform.

It's time to do some listening.

Are you ready? How am I making this sound? I'll do that again.

Make sure you're really listening.

Did I make my sound by clapping, by stamping my feet, by rubbing my hands together or by clicking my fingers? Point to the one you think is right.

Did you get it? It was clapping.

Well done, if you were listening really carefully.

What about the next one? How am I making this sound? I'll do that again.

Was I clapping? Stamping my feet? Rubbing my hands together or clicking my fingers? Point to the answer you think it was.

well done, if you said clicking my fingers.

You're absolutely right.

What about the last one? Listen really carefully.

That's a tricky one.

Let me try it again.

What do you think? Was I clapping, stamping my feet, rubbing my hands together or clicking my fingers? Point to the one you think it is.

Are you ready? Well done, if you said rubbing my hands together.

That was a really tricky one.

Here's another chance for you to do some really good listening.

We're going to watch and listen to a piece of music that's being performed with only one body percussion sound.

Let's see what it is.

Can you believe they made an entire piece of music with only clapping? It was called "Clapping music" by a composer called Steve Reich.

Today, you have learned to use your body in different ways.

You've been able to use your body to make a piece of music.

You've identified some tricky sounds by listening and you've listened to a performance of body sounds.

We'd really love to see some of the work you've done today, especially your ostinato patterns.

If you'd like to, please ask a parent or a carer to help you to share your work on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter by tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your learning today.

Bye-bye.