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 ♪ Are you ready to join in? ♪ 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 ♪ I've got my friend, Hickety Tickety here.

Do you remember what you have to do when he sings to you? That is right you have to sing your name to him.

I'll go first.

♪ Hickety, Tickety, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me ♪ ♪ My name's Miss Klava ♪ What's your name? Fantastic now it's your turn.

♪ Hickety, Tickety, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me ♪ Great job.

Let us try one more time.

♪ Hickety, Tickety, bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me ♪ Well done you.

Now it's time to do some learning.

Today we are going to learn, to review our understanding of pulse.

To maintain a steady pulse.

To find the strong beats in your bar, and to move along to music.

In this lesson, you will need, your body, give us a wave.

Your voice, say hello.

And a teddy or toy.

Pause the video to go and get a teddy or toy now.

You can press play again, once you're finished.

I've got new song for you today, and it goes like this.

♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ So that's a squirrel who's run out of nuts for his tea.

And somebody goes to help him.

Isn't that lovely? I'm going to teach it to you one line at a time now.

If I do this, it's my turn.

And if I do this it's your turn.

Are you ready? ♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Great job.

Now we doing two lines at a time.

My turn, your turn.

♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Great job.

Now we're going to sing it all the way through together.

♪ Ready, off we go ♪ ♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Great job, this time put the pulse on your knees.

♪ Ready, off we go.

♪ ♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Fantastic.

This time let's clap the beat.

♪ Ready, off we go ♪ ♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Fantastic.

You can practise singing this song, clapping along to the beat.

Great job everyone.

This time, we're going to continue singing our squirrel song but we're going to be clapping on the first beat of each line of the song.

I'll show you what I mean first.

♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ I clapped on the first beat of each line of the song.

In music, we would call that the first beat of the bar.

This is because music is divided up into bars and in this song, each bar has four beats.

So my pattern would be one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Maybe you can join in with me.

Let's try that together.

Ready, off we go.

♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ Fantastic.

Let's try doing a different action on beat one.

Maybe we could tap our shoulders on beat one.

And click our fingers on beat two, three and four.

Lets have a go.

♪ Ready, off we go ♪ ♪ Squirrel sits up in his tree ♪ ♪ Only one small nut has he ♪ ♪ Let us go you and me ♪ ♪ With a sackful for his tea ♪ See if you can try your own pattern.

You can use anything as long as beat one is different to the other beats.

That's to show that the first beat is always the strongest beat in the song.

Well done you.

Pause the video to practise singing these songs to your teddy or toy.

Have a go at making the first beat of the bar stronger than the rest by doing a different action.

You can press play again, once you're finished.

♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Do you know this song? Can you sing it along with me? ♪ Ready off I go ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ It's an easy song isn't it? What we going to do today, is we going to clap on the strongest beats.

Those are the beats, start of each line of the song.

Firstly, we going to only clap when we hear the word London.

I'll do it first, and then it will be your turn.

♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Your turn to join in.

♪ Ready, off we go ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Good job.

This time, we're going to add in, some extra claps at the start of each line.

So we'll be clapping on London, falling, London and my.

I'll show you what I mean.

♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Let's have a go together.

♪ Ready, off I go ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Let's do that again.

This time we're going to keep the pulse on our knees and we're going to clap on the first beat of every line.

So just let me ♪ Ready, off I go ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ Falling down, falling down ♪ ♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪ ♪ My fair lady ♪ Well done you.

The strongest beat is always the first beat in the pattern.

Fantastic.

Which beat is usually the strongest beat in the bar? Is it beat number one? Beat number two, beat number three.

Or beat number four? That's right, it's in number one Now is time to do some listening.

This piece of music is called Habanera that called Carmen See how many different ways you can move your body in time to the beat.

You could tap your head, clap your hands click your fingers, stamp your feet.

It's really up to you.

Today we have learnt, to review our understanding of pulse, to maintain a steady pulse, to find a strong beat in a bar and to move along to music.

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