Lesson video

Hi everyone.

My name is Miss Kilpatrick.

Can you tell me your names.

Shout them at me? Excellent.

I think I heard everyone just then.

Welcome to the first lesson of the next six that we're going to be doing on musical devices.

Today, starting with ostinati or repeating patterns.

First of all, we're going to sing a hello song and do a warm up with lots of actions.

So get prepared for that.

Then we're going to find out what an ostinato is.

We're going to rap with a grandma.

And then just to check you've really learned about the ostinatos today, we're going to try a true or false question at the end.

Are you ready to sing? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ We're going to start with a warm-up song.

It's got lots of actions.

The words are very easy.

You'll catch on really quickly.

See if you can join in with all the actions.

Here we go.

Well, for the last verse, we're going to put all the actions together that we've done the previous verses.

See if you can keep up.

Here we go.

How did you get on? So what are we learning today? Well, you're going to be able to understand and use the term ostinato when we talk about our music learning today.

Then, we're going to be learning to perform a rhythmic pattern.

At the end of the lesson today, you'll have a task where you have to compose your own rhythmic ostinato.

And composing is what people do when they write their own music.

So that's what you're going to be doing today.

Well, the first thing to know is what is an ostinato? An ostinato as it says there is a repeating pattern of notes.

There's a flag at the end of that sentence.

Do you know where that flag's from? That's right.

It's the Italian flag.

Ostinato is an Italian word.

Should we try and say it with an Italian flair.

Ostinato.

Have a go.

You ready? Ostinato.

Should we try and clap it? Ostinato.

Do it with me.

Are you ready? Ostinato.

Excellent.

Ostinato, a repeating pattern of notes.

Repeating patterns can be quite simple.

I've got some pictures here of some repeating patterns.

And you can see the white squares and green squares.

Quite a simple pattern.

Some patterns can be really complex.

And it's exactly the same with music.

We're going to be writing quite a simple repeating pattern today.

A repeating ostinato.

But some ostinato are really complicated.

When we talk about lots of ostinati, in Italian you would say ostinati.

But we're going to use the word ostinatos to be clear that we're talking about lots of them.

So to do a really good learning today, we're going to need to understand and use some musical key words.

Of course, the first one is ostinato which we've already learned is a repeating pattern of notes or sounds.

Let's clap that word again to really get it into our heads.

Ostinato.

Have a go.

Excellent.

The next really important word for our work today is rhythm.

And rhythm is a mixture of long and short sounds over a pulse or a beat.

Melody is going to be a really important word as we go on in our lessons over the next few weeks.

And it's another word for tune.

And accompaniment, that's what ostinato can be.

And we're going to learn a lot about different types of accompaniments as we go through our sessions.

And an accompaniment is music that plays underneath the main melody.

If you accompany someone, you walk along with them or you go beside them.

That's what an accompaniment does in music.

It's what plays under the main melody, the main tune.

So I'm going to teach you this rap with grandma.

She's sick in bed.

She calls for the doctor and the doctor says, "You ain't sick." So it's got a really strong pulse beat.

I'm going to speak a line and you're going to speak it after me.

Okay, here we go.

This is our pulse.

♪ Grandma, grandma, sick in bed ♪ ♪ She called for the doctor and the doctor said ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma, you aint sick ♪ ♪ All you need is a walking stick ♪ That sounded fantastic.

Should we just try and do the whole thing altogether.

This time we can try and add some actions in.

So grandma sick in bed.

She called for the doctor.

You ain't sick.

All you need is a walking stick.

You can walk along with your walking stick.

Here we go.

♪ One, two off we go ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma, sick in bed ♪ ♪ She called for the doctor and the doctor said ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma, you ain't sick ♪ ♪ All you need is a walking stick ♪ That was fantastic.

Now, grandma rap because it was to a really steady pulse.

We're going to use some of the lyrics in the song in the rap to help us make an accompaniment.

An ostinato.

Do you remember in our very first warm-up song where we did our ♪ dum dum di di dum ♪ The tune of the song went over all the verses.

And our body percussion pattern was the ostinato underneath the tune.

So every verse had an ostinato that ran the whole way through made up of body percussion sounds.

The first verse was two knee taps and two shoulder taps.

Two knee taps and two opposite shoulder taps.

That was the body percussion ostinato that ran through the whole verse.

We're going to have the same way with the grandma rap.

I've given you one that you can see on the screen as an example.

Have a look at the images of the body percussion.

You can see we've got two foot stumps and a handclap.

So it's going to go like this.

♪ Stamp stamp clap ♪ ♪ Stamp stamp clap ♪ If you're sitting down instead of stamping, you could always pat your knee instead.

That's what I'm going to do here.

So let's have a go together after four.

One, two, three, four.

Above those images, I've written some sound words that sound like this.

♪ Ti ti ta ♪ ♪ Ti ti ta ♪ And you can see those sounds match the sound of the body percussion.

♪ Ti ti ta ♪ ♪ Ti ti ta ♪ ♪ Stamps stamp clap ♪ ♪ Stamp stamp clap ♪ Those sound words will help us to write or notate, compose that pattern in notes.

So the "Ti-Ti" symbol which we might call a quaver or double quavers in this case, are the two notes that are joined together.

It looks a bit like a door.

That's the "Ti-Ti" symbol double quavers.

The "Ta" symbol is the single note with one stem.

♪ Ti ti ta ♪ ♪ Ti ti ta ♪ The "Ta" is called a crotchet.

So we've got "Ti-Ti" double quaver and "Ta" crotchet.

"Ti-Ti's" are two heartbeats.

So if this is our pulse.

Two "Ti-Ti's" to a pulse.

♪ Ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ♪ The crotch, the "Ta" is one beat.

So that's one "Ta" to your pulse.

♪ Ta ta ta ta ♪ The words that are chosen from the song that match this pattern is ♪ Sick in bed ♪ ♪ Sick in bed ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma, sick in bed ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma ti ti ta ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma, stamp stamp clap ♪ I've used the lyrics of the song to help me create my pattern.

Think it through this lyrics.

I put it to some body percussion.

I chose stamp stamp clap.

You can choose whatever you like.

I thought about it in sound words "Ti-Ti Ta".

And I've used those sound words to write the notation symbols.

You're going to go pause the video now and you're going to go and complete your ostinato.

You're going to be composing your own rhythmic ostinato in exactly the same way as I just did.

So use the words for grandma rap.

Find a phrase in the rap that you really like.

I used ♪ Sick in bed ♪ You can use any of the patterns that you like.

Really have a think about how you could perform it to body percussion.

Are you going to stamp it, clap it, tap it, click it.

Anything you like.

Write that down in the body percussion section.

Write the lyrics that you've chosen to the beat.

So really think how they fit.

And then have a go at using the sound words.

Are you using "Ta Ti-Ti"? So can you notate your pattern in musical symbols? I've shown you on your worksheet some examples.

And then you can have a go at finding your own.

You can play the video again once you're finished.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Well done for all your fantastic work.

Should we have a go at putting your ostinato to our performance? So have you got your ostinato ready? Just remind yourself how it goes.

Have a little rehearsal in your head.

What are you going to do? I'm going to rap through the whole song.

I want you in the verse we know to do your body percussion ostinato over the top.

So you're going to do your ostinato while I do the rap.

Then when we come to the part of the rap where we've got some actions, you're going to stop your body percussion ostinato and join in with me.

So the first action we have is ♪ Up, shake, shake, shake, shakerdy-shake ♪ And that's where I want you to come up and you're going to put your arms up.

You can jump up in the air.

I'm going to do some really cool actions.

Are you ready? Get your body percussion sorted.

I'm going to count to four.

One, two, three, four.

♪ Grandma grandma sick in bed ♪ ♪ She called for the doctor and the doctor said ♪ ♪ Grandma, grandma you ain't sick ♪ ♪ All you need is a walking stick ♪ ♪ And an up, shake, shake, shake, shakerdy-shake ♪ ♪ And a down, shake, shake, shake, shakerdy-shake ♪ ♪ And an up, shake, shake, shake, shakerdy-shake ♪ ♪ And down, shake, shake, shake, shakerdy-shake ♪ ♪ To the front, to the back to the s-s-side ♪ ♪ To the front, to the back to the s-s-side ♪ ♪ She never went to college ♪ ♪ She never went to school ♪ ♪ But you can bet your bottom dollar ♪ ♪ She can wriggle like a fool ♪ Now wriggle.

Really go for it.

Do some wriggling.

Now wriggle.

jump up and jump around.

Last time.

Now wriggle.

How did you get on? I loved your wriggling.

That was amazing.

So have we learned what an ostinato is? Let's see.

Is an ostinato a repeating pattern of sounds or notes? Is it true or false? I'll read that again.

An ostinato is a repeating pattern of sounds or notes.

Is that true or is it false? It's true.

Well done if you got that right.

So what have we learned today? Well, you can now understand and use the term ostinato.

Give yourself a tick.

You can perform a rhythmic ostinato.

You performed one with me.

And even more amazingly, you composed your own rhythmic ostinato.

And performed along.

That's it, you're now a true musician.

That was amazing.

It's time to sing a goodbye song.

♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ ♪ It was good to see you today ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ ♪ It was good to see you today ♪ That brings us to the end of today's lesson.

A fantastic, really big well done on all your learning that you've achieved today.

If you're able to, please take a picture of your work or a video of your rhythmic ostinato and ask your parents 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, ask your parent or carer to send a picture of your work to @OakNational on Twitter, so I can see your lovely work too.

Well, all that's left for me say is thank you.

Take care.

Come back with me to learn again soon Bye everyone.