Lesson video

Hi, everyone, remember me? My name is Miss Kilpatrick.

I think I remember all your names but why don't you tell me just the same? That's right.

I remember.

Welcome back, everybody, to our second lesson on musical devices, and we're going to be continuing to explore ostinati.

So, let's get straight on with our hello song.

Are you ready? ♪ 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 ♪ Do you think, now we've sung that a few times, you could say hello to me? My name is Miss Kilpatrick.

I'll help you sing along.

Here we go.

♪ Hello, Miss Kilpatrick ♪ ♪ Hello, Miss Kilpatrick ♪ ♪ Hello, Miss Kilpatrick ♪ ♪ It's good to see you today ♪ Oh, thanks, everyone! That was great.

Now, just before we begin our proper warmup, I want you to take a look at what you're wearing today.

And if you're wearing the colour that I sing, make sure you do the right action.

♪ If your clothes have any red, any red ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any red, any red ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any red, put your hand upon your head ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any red, any red ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any blue, any blue ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any blue, any blue ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any blue ♪ ♪ Bend down and touch your shoe ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any blue, any blue ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any green, any green ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any green, any green ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any green, look really, really, mean ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any green, any green ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any pink, any pink ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any pink, any pink ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any pink, go and have a lovely drink ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any pink, any pink ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any black, any black ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any black, any black ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any black, pat yourself upon the back ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any black, any black ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any white, any white ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any white, any white ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any white ♪ ♪ Hug yourself with all your might ♪ ♪ If your clothes have any white, any white ♪ Did you manage all the actions? Well done.

For the next part of our warmup, we're going to do something called the breakfast ostinato.

So, remember from last lesson, an ostinato is a repeating pattern.

Well, I want you to have a think about what you had for breakfast today.

If you haven't had breakfast yet, maybe think about your favourite food or your favourite breakfast food.

So, this morning I had some toast with butter for breakfast, so I'm going to think that pattern, think those words to a pulse.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

Can you do the same? See if you can think of your favourite breakfast or what you had today.

Can you put it to that pulse? I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

Great.

Have you got one? Now see if you can tap it or clap it with me.

So, my pattern was, I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

I had toast and butter.

Oh, it's nice to hear your breakfasts.

Okay.

Now I'm going to tap it on my knees but I'm going to think in my head the sounds of the words.

So, I'll give you a count of four in.

You do yours, I'll do mine.

One, two, three, four.

Did you do it? Well done.

So, that is a really nice ostinato you could try at home with your family, or with your teacher, or with your class.

Think about what you've had for breakfast.

Can you keep your pattern going while someone else does theirs? So, in this lesson today, you will need an exercise book or some paper, and a pen or a pencil.

So, we're going to review the learning from last lesson, just to check that we can remember all of those things we learned about that first musical device, the ostinato, then we're going to rehearse something new.

And after that, it's going to be your job to help compose a new piece of music, using the learning we're doing today.

Here's a reminder of some of our keywords that we've been working on over the last two weeks.

An ostinato is a repeating pattern of notes or sounds, which is exactly what we rehearsed with our breakfast ostinato.

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

So that one of your breakfast ostinatos was a really good rhythm.

A melody is another word for the tune, and an accompaniment is music that plays underneath the main melody.

So we've been using an ostinato as an accompaniment to another piece of music.

What are we learning today? So, in our review, we know we can do ostinato as an accompaniment using body percussion.

So, we used hand claps and stamps, and taps and clicks.

Today we're going to be looking at using an ostinato, but with our voices, so we're repeating sung pattern.

Here's one that you might recognise.

This is an example of an ostinato sung pattern within a piece of music, and it's from a piece that is often sung at Christmas called "Carol of the Bells".

And the singing part goes like this.

♪ La, la, la, la ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la ♪ If you were to have a look to see if you could find "Carol of the Bells", I'm sure, if you played it, you'd be able to hear that ostinato pattern repeated throughout the piece.

And finally, you're going to compose your own.

Think of your own melody that you can sing as an accompaniment to another piece of music.

The song we're going to use for our composition today is "Old MacDonald Had a Farm".

I'm sure you already know it, but let's have a go at singing it through together first.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And on that farm he had a hen, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there ♪ ♪ Here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck, cluck ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ So, now we're going to use that song to find a vocal pattern that we can choose and sing, repeating it over and over again as an accompaniment to the main melody.

Just like last week, with our grandma rap, we're going to use a word or a phrase from the song to form our ostinato.

For example, I'm going to use the phrase "had a farm", so I'm going to think that through so I can get the tune in my head.

♪ Old MacDonald had a farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ So I'm going to put that into my head.

♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ That's going to become my ostinato for the song, to accompany that main melody that we've just sung.

What I'd like you to do now is to take your pencil and your paper.

You're going to pause the video.

Have a think through "Old MacDonald".

Find a word or a phrase that you would like to use as your vocal ostinato, and this is where you're going to be composing your own ostinato to run underneath the main melody.

Pause the video now, and you can replay when you've found your phrase.

Welcome back.

Now what you're going to do is have a listen to the one that I prepared and see if you can do the same.

We'll listen to my recording first, just to see how it goes, and then you will do yours afterwards.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm, had a farm ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ Had a farm, had a farm ♪ ♪ And on that farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ He had a hen ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ Had a farm, had a farm ♪ ♪ With a cluck, cluck here ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ And a cluck, cluck there ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ Here a cluck, there a cluck ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ Everywhere a cluck, cluck ♪ ♪ Had a farm ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm ♪ ♪ Had a farm, had a farm ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ Had a farm, had a farm ♪ So now you can see how it works.

I'm going to play the song one more time, and this time I want you to sing your ostinato over the top as an accompaniment.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And on that farm he had a hen, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there ♪ ♪ Here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck, cluck ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ How did you get on? Did you manage to sing your ostinato all the way through underneath the song? I'm really looking forward to seeing some of your work.

So, what have we learned so far? We've learned to use ostinati in different ways to accompany music.

First of all, we've learned that we can make rhythmic ostinati using body percussion.

Today, we've learned we can make vocal ostinati, so taking a phrase or a part of a song and singing it as an accompaniment, just like in "The Carol of the Bells".

And lastly, you've then composed your own by taking a phrase from a well-known rhyme that you know and singing it underneath the main melody.

What fantastic musicians you are.

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 ♪ Well, that brings us to the end of today's lesson.

A really big well done on all the fantastic learning you've achieved today.

If you're able to, please take a picture 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, too.

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, and I'm really looking forward to seeing all the fantastic things you've done.

Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you, take care, and come back to learn with me again soon.

Bye, everybody!.