Lesson video

Hi, everybody.

Are you ready to do some singing? ♪ 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 ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ Your turn 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 ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ I wonder if we could sing that song a little bit slower.

♪ 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 ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ I wonder if we could sing that song a little bit faster.

♪ 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 ten ♪ ♪ It's time for us to sing ♪ I changed the tempo.

We're going to be learning about tempo today.

Before we do that, Higgity Tiggity wants to know your name.

I'm going to go first, you can go after.

♪ Higgity Tiggity bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me ♪ ♪ My name's Miss Clover.

♪ What's your name? ♪ Higgity Tiggity bumblebee ♪ ♪ Can you sing your name to me ♪ Fantastic.

Let's go and do some learning.

Today we are going to learn, to review our understanding of pulse, to learn the words to describe tempo, to identify tempo in songs.

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

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

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

What is the pulse in music? Can you remember? Is it the words of the song? The instruments used in the music? The heartbeat of the music, or the person singing the song? That's right.

It's the heartbeat of the music.

Which of these patterns matches "Swallows in the sunshine" best? Is it the first one or the second one? That's right.

It's the first one.

Which beat is usually the strongest beat in the bar? Is it beat one, two, three or four? That's right.

It's beat one.

Do you remember the beginning of this lesson, we were singing the "welcome everybody" song really slow and really fast.

And I said we were changing something.

Can you remember what word I said? That's right, tempo.

We were changing the tempo.

Tempo means speed.

It's a musical term for how fast or slow the music is going.

There are two more musical words we're going to learn today.

The first one is presto, which means very fast.

And the second one is adagio, which means slow.

So we've learned today that tempo is the speed, presto means very fast, and adagio means slow.

We have some more words here.

Rallentando means getting slower.

This is for if the music starts off quite quickly and gradually gets slower.

Sometimes happens at the end of songs.

And accelerando means getting faster.

That one's an easy one to remember because it's like the word, accelerate.

I wonder if you can guess what language all of these words come from.

These words are Italian.

Lots of terms in music are written in Italian.

Can you help me fill in the gaps? Something is how fast or slow the pulse of the music is going.

Something means very fast.

Something means slow.

Something means getting faster, and something else means getting slower.

Pause the video now.

Write this down on your paper and use the word bank to fill in the gaps.

See if you can remember what all those Italian words mean.

Press play again, once you're finished.

Did you get them right? Tempo is how fast or slow the pulse of the music is going.

Presto means very fast.

Adagio means slow.

Accelerando means getting faster.

And rallentando means getting slower.

Great job.

We already know some fast songs like "Harry hare" and "Susie snail," but we don't really know very many slow songs.

I'm going to sing one to you today.

This is a lullaby and I've got my duck here who's very tired.

so I'm going to try and get him to sleep.

You listen, and then maybe you can rock your teddy to sleep along too.

♪ Soft through the window ♪ ♪ Darkness is creeping ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Now's time for sleeping ♪ ♪ Birds are not singing ♪ ♪ Bees are not humming ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Sleep time is coming ♪ Oh, he's asleep.

Is your teddy asleep too? Let me teach you the song, one line at a time.

If I do this, it's my turn, and if I do this, it your turn.

♪ Soft through the window ♪ ♪ Darkness is creeping ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Now's time for sleep ♪ ♪ Birds are not singing ♪ ♪ Bees are not humming ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Sleep time is coming ♪ Great job.

It's really important that we sing that nice and slowly.

Because if we sang it too fast and we were rocking our baby, they wouldn't really fall asleep, would they? Is your teddy asleep now? Let's sing it two lines at a time now.

My turn, your turn.

♪ Soft through the window ♪ ♪ Darkness is creeping ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Now's time for sleeping ♪ ♪ Birds are not singing ♪ ♪ Bees are not humming ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Sleep time is coming ♪ Good job.

Well done.

Now, this time we're going to sing it all the way through.

Are you ready? ♪ Ready off I go ♪ ♪ Soft through the window ♪ ♪ Darkness is creeping ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Now's time for sleeping ♪ ♪ Birds are not singing ♪ ♪ Bees are not humming ♪ ♪ Hush little baby ♪ ♪ Sleep time is coming ♪ Match the song to the tempo.

Which one is adagio? Which one is presto? That's right.

"Hush little baby" is adagio, that's slow, and "Harry hare" is presto, that's very fast.

Is my clapping getting faster or slower? That's right.

It was getting faster.

It was accelerated, accelerando.

What about this time? That's right.

It was getting slower, rallentando.

What about this time? That's right.

It was getting faster again.

Today we have learned, to review our understanding of pulse, to learn the musical terminology of tempo, and to identify tempo in songs.

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