Lesson video

Hi, everybody! And welcome to the final session on musical devices, with me, Miss Kilpatrick.

Welcome back! Hello, everyone.

It's time for a "Hello Song." ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ It's good to see you today ♪ ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, everyone ♪ ♪ It's good to see you today ♪ So, what are we going to be learning today? Well, we'll be starting with our warm-up, of course, to get ourselves really ready in using our musical brains.

Then we're going to have a look at all the fantastic learning you've done so far.

We've got our very final task.

Some extra listening, in case you've been inspired by some of our musical learning over the last few weeks.

And our very last goodbye.

So, our warm-up today.

This means, yes.

This means, no.

So if you see this, you need to say, "Yes," and if you see this, you need to say, "No." Here we go.

This means, maybe.

Let's try again.

Here we go.

How are you getting on? Right.

This is tea.

♪ Tea ♪ Can you sing it with me? ♪ Tea ♪ This is coffee.

♪ Coffee ♪ ♪ Tea ♪ ♪ Coffee ♪ ♪ Tea ♪ ♪ Coffee ♪ Here we go.

How did you get on? Were you really watching for all the signs? Excellent, let's get on.

So at the end of our last lesson, we had a look at all the fantastic musical learning you've done so far.

These are all the things we know about musical devices that can be used as accompaniments.

For ostinati, our repeating patterns, remember we've got rhythmic ostinati.

Which can be used with body percussion or with a percussion instrument that is not melodic.

We've got vocal ostinati, where you can sing the same pattern over and over.

♪ La da la ♪ ♪ La la la ♪ ♪ La la la ♪ ♪ La la la ♪ Making a vocal, melodic ostinati.

And you could also play a melodic ostinato on an instrument.

And we also learned that if you put that melodic ostinato into the bass sound of the music, it's called the ground bass.

Lots of pieces using ground bass as the start and harmonising and making extra musical texture over the top of that bass sound.

We've also looked at the drone, the second musical device.

We've done vocal drones.

♪ Monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey ♪ Or their vocal sounds.

♪ Oo ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Mm ♪ And we've used instrumental drones, when we've played the same note all the way through.

And again, if we put that into the bass sound of our music, it becomes that pedal note, that repeating sound that holds all the rest of the music up above, adding interest and texture to the sounds that we create.

So what is our final composition task? Well, in the next part of the video, I'm going to be playing a melody.

What I want you to do is accompany that melody in any of the ways we've learned about over the past five sessions.

You could choose to accompany with your voice, using a vocal ostinato, or using a vocal drone.

You could choose to accompany the piece with a rhythmic ostinato, using body percussion, or tapping on a table or wooden spoons.

You could choose to create a counter-melody.

That's a new thing.

That's another tune.

Something like a ground bass that would run underneath.

You could choose an instrumental drone, a pedal note.

You could choose to do more than one.

You could try and do all of them.

It's up to you.

But I'd like you to have a go, at using one of those musical devices that we've learned about to accompany the melody that you'll hear in the next part of the video.

Have a play around with it.

See how you feel.

Make your composition as interesting, and as many layers of texture as you'd like it to have.

And then, get everybody from your house around you and perform your piece.

I'd really love to see all the lovely musical things you come up with.

What a lovely, creative way to spend your day.

Remember, of course, for everything that you're composing, you're going to be using the pentatonic scale.

That scale of five notes that we've learned about before.

So to remind you, we use step one, two and three, in our scale.

We miss our step four and we use step five and step six.

And they're the five sounds that we're using.

And of course, we've got that top sound, which is the same pitch as the bottom, but a different octave.

So we'll be using.

♪ One, two, three, five, six ♪ ♪ Five, three, two, one ♪ So if you're singing it through, those are the pitches you're going to be thinking about, when you're doing your composition, and listening to the melody track in the next section.

So you're going to pause the video, while you compose your accompaniment, using any of the musical devices we've learned so far.

Perform your accompaniment to the track in the next part of the video to someone in your house.

And I'd really love to see your work too.

I really hope you enjoy that task.

I'm really hoping to see some of your fantastic final compositions.

How many of you used an ostinato? How many of you used a drone? How many of you used an instrument in your house? How many of you used your voices? How many of you did a combination of all of those things? The more creative, the better.

I'd love to hear them and see them.

If you've been really inspired by some of our work over the last few weeks, you can pause on this part of the video and it will give you some extra things you could listen to.

Pieces of music where other composers have used ostinati and drones to make their pieces of music complete.

You can pause on the video here, and ask your parent or carer to help you search for some of these pieces of music.

Have a listen and see what you think.

Maybe it will inspire you to create something completely different.

Let me know which one's your favourite.

Maybe you'll be able to find some examples of your own.

It's time to sing our "Goodbye Song." ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ It was good to see you today ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ ♪ It was good to see you today ♪ So that brings us to the end of what has been an amazing six lessons with you.

I want to wish everybody the most amazing, "Well done," on all the learning that you've achieved, as we've gone through these last few weeks.

Have a think back about all the things that you've been able to learn about music.

If you're able to, please take a picture or a video of your work and ask your parent or carer to share it with your teacher, so they can see all the fantastic things you've learned today.

And if you'd like, and are able to, ask them to send you that picture to @OakNational on Twitter with the #LearnwithOak, so I can see all of your fantastic work too.

And I'd really love to hear what your favourite piece of music was from our listening list.

All that's left for me to say is a huge, "Thank you!" Take care and come back to learn with me again, another time.

Goodbye, everyone!.