Improvised response - I would bake them in a pie. 

British English CC

Improvised response - I  would give them to my teacher. 

practice - Apple Tree call and response game - Audio

practice - Apple Tree call and response game- video

Cherry Pie 

Call - What would you do with all those apples?

Apple Tree - Audio

Cherry Pie improvised endings

Improvise a new melody (faster tempo if preferred)

Apple Tree - call and response rhythms / Task B 1

Call and response improvisation example video

Task B 3 - Improvising feedback demo

Improvise a new melody - audio (slower speed) 

Rocky Mountain- backing track only audio  (if preferred)

Try it on your instrument - slower speed (recommended)

Try it on your instrument - faster speed (if preferred)

Rocky Mountain - video with actions

Rocky Mountain - audio 

Grand Old Duke of York

Kumala Vista

Two, Four, Six, Eight

Warm-ups

Call and response improvisation within a four note toneset

Music

In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

Call and response is like a musical question and {{}}.

We can use call and response to improvise...

We can use __________ percussion to improvise new melodies.

Singing new words to a song in the moment.

Playing the notes in a different order to create a new melody on the spot.

Singing or playing a new, in-the-moment, response to a musical call.

Improvising is creating music as you go along, while composing is writing down music you have thought of before. Which of the following are examples of improvising?

Which of the following instruments can play a melody?

The longer bars on the left side of the picture have a lower pitch.

The shorter bars on the right side of the picture have a lower pitch.

Looking at this picture of a xylophone, which bars have a lower pitch?

A glockenspiel is a __________ percussion instrument.

A pitched percussion instrument can play a melody because it can play different {{}}.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Call and response improvisation within a four note toneset

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.