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- ♪ Hello, everyone.

♪ Welcome back to Lesson 5, Improvising in a Samba Style.

Can you remember all of the work and the rhythms that we did on samba last week? We're going to put you all together today, and work on improvising some breaks as well.

So, put your thinking caps on, your listening ears, and get your hands ready.

Let's go! In Lesson 5, we are going to recap what improvising means.

We're going to learn a new song, "Halima Pakasholo." We're going to practise our Samba piece.

And we're going to learn improvised breaks.

In this lesson, you will need your hands, brain and a musical instrument.

Don't worry if you don't have one at home, you could improvise.

You could find some pots and pans, or maybe you could put some rice in a bottle, or you could simply tap something with a pen or pencil.

See what you can go and find.

Pause this video if you need to go on a rummage.

Activity 1: Recap what 'Improvise' means.

So, what does improvise mean? Have a little think.

Improvise means to make it up.

There is no plan before you perform.

When you are improvising a pattern, you make it up on the spot.

Right, let's start this lesson by recapping the song "A Keelie Makolay." This is a call and response song.

I will sing the call, and you're going to do the response, the "Yeah yeah, mo paco meno sway." Should we go straight in to see if we can remember it? Okay? ♪ Off I go ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Yeah yeah, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Yeah yeah, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ Right, let's switch roles.

You're going to do the call, and I will do the response.

Are you ready? This is our pulse.

♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Off you go ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Yeah yeah, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Yeah yeah, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ Well done.

Right, we did some other activities last week.

This time we are going to improvise a break, okay? So, it's going to be like this.

♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ I'm improvising the response by clapping a rhythm on the spot.

Are you ready? If you would like to join in with the call, and do the response, that would be great.

Are we ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ Fantastic.

Now we're going to do one last activity.

This time, instead of clapping it, I want you to think if you can do a body percussion improvisation.

So, it might go like this.

♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ Did you see what I did there? You can choose any part of your body to make a sound with.

Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ A keelie makolay, mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ Mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O mo paco meno sway ♪ fantastic! Well done.

Which one did you enjoy the most? Did you enjoy the clapping improvisation, or doing the body percussion? Right, we're going to go back to our game, "Plug the Gap," now.

But this time there are eight beats to fill, okay? So I'm going to clap eight crotchet beats, and then you're going to improvise a pattern.

If you want to, like in the song "A Keelie," you could do a body percussion pattern instead.

So, it might sound something like this.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Okay? Should we have a go? I'll do the crotchet, eight beats.

You're going to plug the gap.

This is going to be our pulse, okay? One, two, three, four Last time.

Well done.

What did you choose, clapping or body percussion? Oh I'd love to know.

Let's recap.

What does improvise mean? Does it mean to write down a piece of music? Is it a repeated pattern or phrase? Is it the heartbeat of the music? Or does it mean to make up a pattern on the spot? Have a think.

The answer is to make a pattern on the spot.

Well done if you've got this right.

Activity 2: To learn a new song, "Halima Pakasholo." In this lesson, we are going to learn a new song.

This is called "Halima Pakasholo," and it's another call and response song.

Have a listen to it all the way through first.

♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ This time, I would like you to do the responses.

So I go, ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ That's your response.

♪ Halima, Halima ♪ My turn, your turn.

♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Well done, this time I'll sing the call, and you're going to do the response.

Are we ready? ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ The next bit, we sing it together.

♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Let's do that my turn, your turn.

♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Well done.

Let's do it call and response, and then the unison part at the end.

Are we ready? ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Now to learn the call, and we're finished! My turn.

♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ Well done.

This time, you're going to be the call, I'm going to be the response.

Are we ready? ♪ Off you go ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Well done.

Should we sing it one more time? Let's sing the calls and the responses all together, ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Well done.

Now we're going to make it even more interesting.

If you have a look on your screen, you will see the four rhythms. We're going to go through each of those four rhythms now.

The first one goes like this.

And we just keep a steady pulse all the way through.

Okay, so that's number one.

Number two.

Now you will see a crotchet, but it has a dot after it.

This means it is a crotchet and a half, so one and a half.

So it sounds like this.

One, and.

Okay? Number three, we've got lots of quavers.

So this one sounds like this.

Uses a bit of syncopation at the end there.

And the last one features some crotchet rests.

So this one goes like this.

Shh.

Okay? So we're going to layer them up.

All the rhythms will be in the corners of this video, and then the song will join in.

You choose the rhythm that you would like to clap along with.

Remember, you can always rewind this video when it's finished and have a go at another rhythm, okay? One, two, three, four.

Number two.

Number three.

Number four.

And the song.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Activity 3: To learn a samba rhythm pattern.

Onto our samba piece from last week now.

What we're going to do, is we're going to have a go at doing all of the different grooves first.

So, if you only chose one rhythm last week, see if you can choose a different one this week.

I'm just going to remind you of them.

So number one was One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Number two was one, two, three, four, five, the samba.

One, two, three, four, five, the samba.

Number three.

Hi, lo.

Hi, lo, lo, lo.

Hi, lo.

Hi, lo, lo, lo.

And the last one, One, two, three four, I love samba.

I love samba, I love samba.

So, choose your favourite.

Let's have a go with the video.

Now we're going to have a look at the breaks from last week.

On the screen, you can see all of the instruments we learned about last week.

Let's do a little quiz to see what you can remember.

What country does samba music come from? The answer is Brazil.

Where would you see samba drumming taking place? And the answer, in street carnivals and celebrations.

And the last question, can you name any of the samba instruments on the screen? This is a tricky one.

You have the choice from: The Surdo, Repinique, Caixa, Tamborim, Ganza, and Apito.

Number one with the whistle.

What are you having for your dinner tonight? Fish and chips, fish and chips.

Then we have number two.

Can you remember this one? And number two with the whistle.

Do you love samba? Oh yes, I really do.

And then ending with the cross.

Samba drumming is the best, oh yes! Let's try it.

And this one is together.

Samba drumming is the best, oh yes! Should we have a practise? This time We're going to put them into our Samba piece.

So you've got to be having a go at your rhythm, and then when you hear the whistles, get ready to stop your rhythm and to go into that break.

Activity 4: To learn improvised breaks.

This time you are going to come up with your own breaks.

So, in the video, there will be nothing after the whistles of number one and number two.

And you are going to come up with your own call and your own response.

So it could be a question and an answer.

For example, what is the weather outside today? Sunny, sunny.

What is the weather outside today? Sunny, sunny.

You need to think of two different breaks.

I'm going to give you some time now.

Pause the video, and then click play to have a go at putting your breaks into our samba piece.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Well done for completing lesson five.

We've done a fantastic samba performance now, and we've really worked hard on all of our breaks today.

Well done.

I hope to see you again next time for Lesson 6.

Bye bye.

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