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Hi everybody, my name is Mr. Palekar.

And welcome back for lesson 3 of music.

Today we are going to be exploring two beats in a bar.

In today's lesson, we are going to recap our song "Crazy Glue" from last lesson.

That was in four beats in a bar.

We are going to explore and listen to music which has two beats in a bar.

We're going to pat to the pulse with the music that has two beats in a bar.

And we are going to learn a brand new piece that also uses two beats in a bar.

So what will you need? You will need some headphones if you have some, if you don't have any, don't panic.

See if you can find somewhere where you can concentrate and you won't be disturbed.

You'll also need a pencil and some paper if you would like to make notes.

You'll need your hands.

And one more thing, one what additional thing that you need this week, is a plastic cup or beaker.

So I've got my bamboo one here.

If you don't have one that's made out of wood, you can perhaps use somethings that's made out of plastic.

Try not to get something that's going to break.

So if you have like an old gravy pot or plastic pot or cardboard pot, that'd be perfect.

That is for our song a little bit later.

Pause the video now if you need to get your cup or beaker and then when you're ready to continue click play.

Let's start with "Crazy Glue" from last lesson.

It sounds like this.

One, two, three, four, ♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ One more time, ♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ My turn and then your turn.

♪ I never knew ♪ Your turn, here we go.

♪ I never knew ♪ My turn, ♪ That you are crazy glue ♪ Your turn.

♪ That you are crazy glue ♪ My turn.

♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ Your turn.

♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ Good.

My turn, ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy ♪ Your turn.

♪ I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy ♪ Last line.

My turn.

♪ And I don't, don't want to wiggle loose ♪ ♪ And I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ Your turn.

♪ And I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ Let's see if you can remember from last time.

I'll take it a little bit slower to begin with.

One, two, a one, two, three, four.

♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ try it again, here we go, ♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ Great job! If you remember very very well, that part of the song is called our chorus.

It happens more than once in our song.

From last lesson, we were counting the pulse.

A clap, pat, pat, pat, clap, pat, pat, pat, clap, pat, pat, pat, clap, pat, pat, pat.

Our clap was on the down beat, the very first beat of every single bar.

Now remember, we have four beats in a bar.

And we know this because we have a number four at the beginning of our music.

That is called a time signature.

And that four, that time signature, tells us how many beats they're going to be in each bar.

How many beats in each bar.

That's what a time signature is.

Let's see if we can try our clap, tap, tap, tap.

That down arrow is for a tap.

Or you can pat your knees.

Here we go.

A one, a two, a one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Good.

Let's try it.

Sing the song and clap, tap, tap, tap.

Thinking in our heads.

One, two, three, four.

Here we go.

Let's try it again.

But this time, one, two, three, four.

Ready, here we go.

And, ♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ One more time, ♪ I never knew ♪ ♪ That you are crazy glue, my darling ♪ ♪ And I'm stuck to you ♪ ♪ I am cosy and I don't want to wiggle loose ♪ Great job! Pause the video now so that you can sing "Crazy Glue" and tap the pulse all the way through.

If you'd like to rewind 20 seconds so we can do it together, do that now.

And when you're ready to continue, click the play button.

Time signatures, two beats in a bar.

Before us going to time signatures, a quick pop quiz.

It's already been said in this video.

The question is, what does a time signature tell us? Is it; option one, the volume? Option two, the bar lines? Option three, how many beats there are in every bar? Or option four, the speed? I'll give you five seconds.

Four, three, two, one, zero.

The correct answer is a time signature tells us how many beats there are in a bar.

Great job if you remembered correctly.

If you didn't, don't panic, this is how we learn.

This lesson, we are going to be looking at two beats in a bar.

Can you remember the quick way of showing this in a piece of music? Yes we could write and draw heartbeats above every single bar, every single box of music.

The quick way is absolutely to draw a number at the very start of our music.

Today, because we are working with two beats in a bar, that's what's going to go at the very start of our music.

Let's listen to some music that has two beats in a bar.

When you got the pulse, see if you can tap the pulse-- tap the downbeat, that first beat of every bar a little bit harder.

I'm going to clap the downbeat.

And on my weakest second beat, I'm going to pat up my chest.

So it'll go one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

Here we go.

One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

One two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

Great job! If you were able to clap along and say it at the same time, really really well done.

There is a bonus track as well.

It sounds like this.

Be ready with your hands.

One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

Very fast.

One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

Very well done, that was very, very quick.

One, two, one, two.

Good job.

Pause the video now, so that you can have a listen back at the bonus track, that classical piece of music by someone called Offenbach.

And clap and pat to the pulse.

Remember that you need to clap harder on every first beat of the bar, which is called the downbeat.

If you want to rewind 20 second so that you can do that with me, do that now.

And when you're ready to continue, click the play button.

The cup game.

For this game you will need to make sure that you have your cup or you beaker ready.

Please make sure it's made out of something like plastic or cardboard Something that's not going to break.

And if you're not sure, please ask a parent or carer first to help you find one.

I'm going to show you a little bit of what it looks like.

Here we go.

♪ Clap, clap, pat, pat, pat, pat ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ I want to show you one more.

This time a little bit faster.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ Let's break it down.

On the screen, you should be able to see the words.

♪ Clap, Clap, tap-tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ Please make sure that you have your cup or your beaker away from you so you can say the words first.

Here we go.

After two bars of two.

So one, two, one, two.

Then we start.

Ready? And one, two, one, two.

♪ Clap, clap, tap-tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ Then again, ♪ Clap, clap, tap-tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ Now some of you have already realised that I'm patting on my strong beat, this time.

We're going to go pat, clap, pat, clap pat, clap pat, clap.

Just make sure that your downbeat is hit a little bit harder.

You can try it with me.

Let's see if you can do it while saying the words.

One, one, two, one, two.

♪ Clap, clap, tap-tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down, ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ Then again, ♪ Clap, clap, tap-tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ ♪ Clap, now turn it all around ♪ One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

As you've realised, this piece of music has two beats in a bar.

One, two, one, two.

Good job.

Okay, let's break it down.

You need your cup or your beaker in front of you.

We also need to make sure that we know our right and left.

I'm going to mirror you, so if on this hand, which is on this side of the screen, this one is going to be your right hand.

This one is going to be your left hand.

Let's just double-check that, show me your right hand.

Lovely.

Show me your left hand.

Great, we are mirroring each other.

My turn and then your turn.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ Ready, off you go.

Now-- Say it out loud one more time.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ When you clap and you tap, you can tap it either way around.

I like to start with my right hand.

So clap, clap, tap, tap, tap.

Try it, ready, here we go.

Good.

The next part is clap, up, down.

I'm going to do that really slowly.

Clap, when we say up, we pick it up.

And when we say down, we put it down.

Let's try that together.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, up, down.

And again, clap, up, down.

And again, clap, up, down, clap, up, down.

And stop.

Let's stick those two parts together.

It's going to sound like this.

My turn first.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap clap, up, down.

Let's try together, off we go.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down, ♪ Good.

One more time.

Ready, here we go.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ Last time, ready? Here we go.

♪ Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap ♪ ♪ Clap, up, down ♪ Good.

That up-down is with your right hand.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap.

Clap, up, down.

Good.

If you're mirroring me correctly, very well done.

The next part.

Clap, and then on the word now we need to do something very special.

Clap, and then with our right hand, we are going to turn it around.

And we're going to hold it like this.

Let's just try that.

Clap, now.

And again.

Clap, reach over, now.

And that's when we grab.

Clap, now.

Try it with me.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, now.

And your hand need to come over nice and quickly.

Nice and quickly.

Clap, now.

Tyr it with me.

Clap, now.

One more time.

Clap, now.

Good.

Let's put it together from the beginning.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now.

Pretty good.

Okay, let's try that one more time.

Here we go.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now.

Good.

When we turn it around, for our last few words, it goes like this.

So if we've got our cup here, we're going to keep our left hand here and we're going to go clap, now.

Turn is going to go into our palm.

So, clap, now turn.

Try that with me.

One, two, here we go.

Clap, now turn.

And again.

One, two, here we go.

Clap, now turn.

The word it is where we hit the bottom of our cup on the table.

Like this.

Clap, now turn it.

Let's try it again.

Clap, now turn it.

Let's try it slowly together.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, now turn it.

One more time.

Ready? Off we go.

Clap, now turn it.

Let's try it from the top.

Can you remember? Nice and slow.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it.

Really good.

Let's do that one more time.

Ready? One, two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it.

Keep it there.

Freeze, don't move.

The next few words, all around.

Say it.

One, two, off you go.

All around.

My turn.

All around.

Your turn.

All around.

All is where we cup this cup turning around, we grab it with our other hand, underneath.

All.

Try it with me, one, two, three One, two, off we go.

All.

One, two, all.

And again, one, two, all.

The letter a is our right hand comes off and it slaps the table, a.

And then finally for the word round is where we put the cup down.

Let's try that last bit again.

So we have, clap, clap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it.

That's where we're starting.

All.

Let's try that, all a-- round.

Let's try that again.

So from here.

One, two, off we go.

All a-- round.

One more time.

One, two, off we go.

All a-- round.

We're going to try to put it together all the way through, very slowly.

Just remember at that very end part that all a-- round.

We are passing the cup between our right hand and our left hand.

So, all-- all, and then our left hand takes over.

Our right hand goes down, a-- and then the cup comes over, round.

Lets try it from the very very top.

Here we go.

Really slowly, guys.

No need to rush.

Let's get this right.

One , two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all a-- round.

Let's go a little bit slower then.

One more time.

What will help you is saying the words out loud.

One, two, off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all a-- round.

Brilliant job.

We're going to do it again.

This time we're going to carry on doing it.

So when we get back to the beginning, it's straight back into clap, clap, tap, tap, tap.

If you can, speed up with me.

Ready? Off we go.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all around.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all around.

A bit faster, clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all around.

Clap, clap, tap, tap, tap, clap, up, down.

Clap, now turn it all-- say it in your head.

Here we go.

A bit faster.

Peace! Brilliant job.

It takes practise to get to that speed.

But you must, must, must, must, must practise slowly and get every single step correct.

And then slowly speed up.

As soon as you make it a mistake, start slowing back down again and practise slowly before you can reach that speed.

Really well done.

Pause the video now so you can practise the cup game all the way through.

If you want to, try it with a partner, some friends, or your family.

If you want to practise with me, rewind 20 seconds and we can practise again.

And when you're ready to continue, click play.

Great job! Because today, you have learnt so much.

You have learn that in our "Crazy Glue" song we have four beats in a bar.

And you've been able to sing it with the actions.

You have been able to recognise music that has two beats in a bar.

You have been able to pat music that has two beats in a bar.

And then you have been able to perform our piece of music, the cup game, that has two beats in a bar.

One, two, one, two.

I would love to see some of your work.

Especially something like the cup game or "Crazy Glue song".

So if you would like to, please ask a parent or your carer to share your work on Instagram, on Facebook or on Twitter with a little #LearnwithOak or @OakNational.

That is all from me today.

I hope that you have a lovely, lovely time practising music.

Until next time, goodbye.

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