Lesson video

Hi everybody, my name is Mr. Palekar and welcome to Music.

Now over the next few lessons, we are going to be exploring pulse, rhythm, and learning lots of different songs.

In today's lesson, we are going to find the pulse in different pieces of music.

We are going to clap the rhythm.

We are going to play a game called Don't Clap This One Back, and we are going to perform a song and clap the rhythm of the words.

For this lesson you will need some headphones, if you have some.

Don't worry if you don't, just make sure that you are somewhere quiet, where you can concentrate and where you won't be disturbed.

You will need a pencil and paper.

If you would like to make any notes and you will need your hands and your selves.

Let's get started with "Everybody Loves Saturday Night".

It sounds like this, ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night? ♪ Right, I'll sing a line, you sing it back to me.

Here we go.

My turn and then your turn.

One, two, three, here I go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Your turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ My turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Your turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Good, let's put those two lines together.

The first line goes higher in pitch at the end.

And the second line goes lower in pitch at the end.

My turn first, ♪ everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Together, ready, and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Good, my turn.

♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

♪ We start with a clap.

♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

♪ One, two, three.

Let's try it together, one, two, three.

Here we go.

♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

♪ One more time.

Ready, here we go.

♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

♪ Good, let's put it together from the top, up until that point.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ One, two, ready off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

♪ And that last line, it's a line that we have sang before.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ It goes down to the end ♪ Saturday night.

♪ Try that last line for me.

One, two, and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Great job, let's sing it all the way from the top.

One, two, one, two, three, here we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Very good, two times in a row, and ready, one, two, off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Again! ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ ♪ everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Very nice, well done.

Let's put some ukulele with it.

One, two, ready, one, two, and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Right, don't worry.

We're going to try it one more time, you ready? One, two, ready off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ One more time, but don't forget to clap with the everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody.

Ready, from the top one, two, off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Well done.

Pause the video now so that you can sing "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" all the way through.

If you would like to practise with me, rewind 20 seconds and we can practise together.

When you're ready to continue click the play button.

Finding the pulse.

In any piece of music there is a steady beat called a pulse.

It's like a beating heartbeat, which keeps on beating throughout.

It is steady.

And we can tap along to different pieces of music and find that pulse.

When you listen to music, often you'll find yourself tapping or stomping or clapping or dancing to the pulse of the music.

We're going to give it a go with a few pieces of music.

You need to listen to each song.

And as soon as you can, soon as you recognise where the pulse is, see if you can clap or pat or tap the pulse along with the music.

Here we go.

Ready to clap along with each of the pieces of music.

Next one.

Next track.

Let's see if you can get that pulse quicker than I can.

Here we go.

Great job, last one.

Here we go.

Are you going to beat me? Nice, here's a bonus one for you.

Let's see if you can clap the pulse.

Okay, let's go back to our song.

"Everybody Loves Saturday Night" and see if we can clap the pulse to it.

Let's sing it first of all.

♪ Everybody.

♪ One, two and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ ♪ everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Good, now if we clap on the pulse, I'm going to pat at my chest.

You can clap it if you want to.

One, two, three, four.

Ready, one, two, three, four.

Ready to sing as well.

One, two, ready, one, two, off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ ♪ everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ One more time.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Well done! Pause the video now so that you can practise finding and clapping the pulse in each piece of music.

Rewind the video now and let's practise together, one more time.

When you're ready to continue click play and we'll go onto the next task.

We are now moving onto rhythm.

Rhythm is how we organise different lengths of sounds.

And it can be described as a pattern of short and long sounds.

Here's my pulse again.

I'm now going to play the rhythm on my chest, which uses short and long sounds.

You can tell me which is more exciting.

Is it the pulse or the rhythm? Here we go.

I hope you agree, it was definitely the rhythm.

The rhythm is the exciting world of patterns of different lengths of sounds.

It is described as how we organise different lengths of sounds, that's rhythm.

Okay, we are coming back to our song, "Everybody Loves Saturday Night", but do you remember those claps? Those claps are rests.

And when we rest, we don't play or sing or say anything at all.

We're going to change those claps for a shh.

Let's go into that middle section.

So it's going to go ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ shh, everybody, shh, everybody ♪ Try it with me.

Ready, here we go.

♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ Well done, this time we're going to clap the rhythm of the words while singing at the same time.

My turn first.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Your turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ My turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Your turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Good, let's try those two lines together.

Ready, one, two and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Good.

The next section, remember our shushes now, our rests.

It's going to go, ♪ shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ Let's do that a little bit slower, so, ♪ Shh everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ You don't have to bring your finger to your lips.

You can go ♪ Shh, Everybody, shh everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ Try it with me, one, two, and off we go.

♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ One more time, ready here we go.

♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ Good, let's go from the top.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ And clap the rhythm of the words.

One, two, and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ shh, everybody, shh, everybody.

♪ And we finished it off with a ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Your turn.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night, ♪ Great, I think we can do all the way through from the top.

Here we go, one, two and off we go.

♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ And again, ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ ♪ Shh everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ Shh, everybody, shh, everybody, ♪ ♪ everybody loves Saturday night.

♪ Well done.

Pause the video now so that you can sing "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" all the way through and clap the rhythm of the words in the music at the same time.

If you would like to practise together, rewind 20 seconds.

And we can go through it one more time.

When you're ready to continue click the play button.

It is game time.

So we are going to play Don't Clap This One Back.

Don't Clap This One Back is a brilliantly fun game.

And it involves you listening really, really, really carefully to a rhythm, which is forbidden.

Forbidden meaning that you do not, must not clap or pat that rhythm.

So the rhythm is don't clap this one back.

Let's try it.

You can clap it back this time so you can get a feel for how it sounds and how it, how you pat it.

Ready? Don't clap this one back.

Don't clap this one back.

But if you ever hear that rhythm, don't clap this one back, do not clap, otherwise I will get the point.

Any other rhythm, you must, must clap.

So if I go, you must go If I go you must not clap because that was the forbidding rhythm.

That was at a do not clap this one back, don't clap this one back.

Okay, let's see if we can go for it.

Did you clap? That was our don't clap this one back.

And some of you even saw me mouth the words as a clue, right? I told you it was going to start easy.

Okay, here we go.

One, two, here I go.

If you clapped, that was our forbidden rhythm, which means I get the point.

If you didn't clap, well done.

I'm going to stop giving you clues, now.

I'm mouthing the words, but this time I want to see who is really listening to each of the rhythms. Here we go.

That was our forbidden rhythm.

Hopefully you didn't clap it.

If you didn't clap, it is your point.

Okay, one more.

That was our forbidden rhythm.

Did you clap? Hmm, okay, let's make it a little bit more, little bit more challenging.

A little bit harder, okay.

I'm going to be using my body as well for them.

So you might hear, don't clap this one back.

You might hear don't clap this one back.

You might hear don't clap this one back.

If you hear it, don't clap or pat or click, you must make sure you stop.

You can even put your hands behind your back, if you would like to.

Any other rhythm, you must clap, click, pat back.

Here we go.

That was our forbidden rhythm.

Were you listening really carefully? If you were, it is your point? If you did pat it, it's my point.

Here we go, hmm Right, ah, let's try something a little bit harder.

Go! That was our forbidden rhythm.

Don't clap this one back.

Last one, I'm going to make this really tricky for you.

Okay, this is for the pros.

Here we go.

I know that some of you heard that.

Don't clap this one back.

If you didn't pat, click, and clap that one all the way through.

Then you get the points, well done.

Pause the video now, so that you can practise playing Don't clap this one back with a partner, a friend or a family member.

If you would like to practise together with me, rewind 20 seconds and we can play the game again.

When you're ready to continue click the play button.

A huge well done for all of your work today.

Great job.

Now from today's lesson, you now can find the pulse in a piece of music.

You can clap the rhythm in the different pieces of music.

You can clap the pulse in the song and you can perform the song and clap the rhythm of the words.

Well done.

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All I can say is a huge well done from me.

And I look forward to seeing you in our next lesson, next time.

Goodbye.