Lesson video

♪ Hello everyone, ♪ welcome to lesson six.

The last one in this unit, all about rhythm improvising.

We're going to be recapping a lot of activities, that we have done in this unit to make sure we know how all the songs go.

And we're going to have a practise at doing all of our improvising patterns.

So let's see what you can remember.

Let's go! In lesson six, we are going to be singing songs, We have learnt in this unit.

we're going to be practising rhythm reading.

We're going to improvise response patterns and we're going to perform or Samba piece all the way through with breaks.

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

Remember if you don't have one at home, that is absolutely fine.

You can see if you can find something similar to assemble sound.

For example, you could use pots and pans and a wooden spoon or you could simply clap a rhythm.

This is an action body percussion game, where you are going to do a repeated pattern over four beats, you're only allowed to start doing my pattern when I say the words switch, okay.

So that means you're actually going to be behind me, because I will do it, then I will pass it over to you.

Let's have a practise and see how we get on.

The other me on the screen is you okay? So if you get stuck, you can watch that version.

Right? My turn.

Here's my pulse.

one, two my turn only.

So you're going to take this when I say switch, okay copy me.

Switch! So you should be clapping right now.

This is your next action.

Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! you should be stomping Stop! Well done! This time the helper video has gone.

So you need to make sure you're really watching me carefully.

So you know what action is coming next.

Are we ready? Here's our pulse, my turn.

And then you join in when we say switch, okay.

One, two, three, four Switch.

Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Hope you're still clapping.

Switch! Well done, did you manage to keep one action behind me? It's tricky, isn't it.

Activity one singing the songs we have learnt in this unit? Can we remember the song "Step back".

It's been a while, hasn't it? In this lesson, we are going to recap, everything we have been learning this unit.

So we are going to do it once, saying step back, baby, as the response.

And then the second time I would like you to improvise a rhythmic pattern.

You can use your hands or you can use body percussion, something like this, ♪ not last night, but the night before.

♪ Okay? Are we ready? Remember we're moving as well.

♪ Off we go, not last night, but the night before.

♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Twenty-Four robbers at my door, ♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Open up the door and let them in ♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Hits 'em on the head with a rolling pin.

♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ I picked up my fryin' pan.

♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Should have seen the way those robbers ran! ♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Some ran east and some ran west.

♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ ♪ Some flew over the cuckoo's nest.

♪ ♪ Step back, baby, step back.

♪ Well done this time replace the step back, baby with an improvisation.

Are we ready? You can sing the call and do the rhythmic response if you would like to, okay? ♪ Off we go, not last night, but the night before.

♪ ♪ Twenty-Four robbers at my door ♪ ♪ Open up the door and let them in.

♪ ♪ Hit 'em on the head with a rolling pin.

♪ ♪ I picked up my fryin' pan.

♪ ♪ Should have seen the way those robbers ran! ♪ ♪ Some ran east and some ran west.

♪ ♪ Some flew over the cuckoo's nest.

♪ Well then did you fit all of your improvisation sections in? Did you manage to use any of the tips and tricks we did? Starting on different beats of the bar, well done.

A Keelie Makolay This is a call and response song.

I will sing the call and you're going to do the response.

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 me paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O me 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 me paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O me 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 me 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 me paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ mo paco meno sway ♪ ♪ O me paco meno sway ♪ Fantastic, well done, which one did you enjoy the most? Did you enjoy the clapping the improvisation or doing the body percussion? Let's recap, what does improvise mean? To write down a piece of music? Is it a repeated pattern or phrase? The heartbeat of the music? Or to make up a pattern on the spot? And the answer is to make a pattern on the spot.

Activity 2: To practise rhythm reading.

Right, we're going to have a go at clapping some rhythms now.

We're going to do this, my turn, your turn.

And we're going to use a backing track to help us keep a steady pulse.

Let's have a go at number one.

I will clap it first.

And then when my hands go out, I want you to clap it back.

Are we ready? Let's have a go see if we can do it.

My turn.

one, two, three, four Number two my turn! Three! Number four! Did you manage to cut all of them correctly? We'll have one more go.

My turn, your turn.

And then what we're going to try and do is we're going to go straight through one, two, three, and four without stopping.

Okay.

One more time my turn your turn.

Number two! Three! Four! Well done, all right, are we ready? We're going to go number one, two, three, and four, straight through.

No, my turn, your turn.

I'll count us in and then let's see if we can get all the way to the end.

Here we go.

Starting with number one.

One, two, three, four.

Two! Three! Four! So do you manage it? Well done if you managed to get all the way to the end without any mistakes.

Remember if you want to practise this again, feel free.

Rewind the video and have another practise.

Okay, we're going to have a go at layering the four rhythms we have learned now in each of these boxes, we are going to all do a different rhythm.

I'm number one.

And then we've got number two, three, and four.

You choose a rhythm now and when the box joins in, I want you to clap along with your chosen rhythm.

Are we ready? Number one is starting then number two.

Okay, we ready? Oh, one, two, three, four.

Number two.

Number three.

Number four.

Did you manage it all the way through? Well done, if you did.

This time, choose a different number.

Let's have one more turn, are you ready? One, two, three, four.

Number two.

Number three.

Number four Did you manage to clip your rhythm correctly all the way through, well done.

In lesson five we learnt the song Halima Pakasholo and we have a go at creating a rhythmic accompaniment underneath.

Let's have another go at doing it.

Remember, you can choose one rhythm and then you can sing over the top.

Try and choose a different one from the one you chose last week.

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 ♪ This time over the video, What I would like you to do, is I would like you to add another layer.

So we've got all four rhythms. We've got our song and then I would like you to improvise in the response sections as well, okay.

So when it is ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ on those Halima, Halima sections, I want you to create another rhythmic pattern to layer, for example, like this, ♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ ♪ Halima, Halima ♪ Okay, or you can stop singing if it makes it easier.

♪ Halima Pakasholo ♪ Okay? Have a little think and then when you're ready, click play and we'll have a go at putting that over the top of the piece that we have just done.

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 three: To improvise response patterns.

Let's have one more go at some patterns now.

I am going to do another call and response idea, but this time I'm going to ask you a question.

For example, I might go, what are you having for dinner tonight? And you might answer.

Fish and chips And we're going to improvise that it's going to be straight away.

We're not writing it down.

Hopefully the questions will help you to answer, okay? Are we ready? Get your brains on, get your hands ready, whatever you say, you need to match the words with your clapping and your rhythm, okay? Here we go.

What are you having for your dinner tonight? Have you got a pet? What do you like to do at school? What is your favourite today? Did you manage to get the answers in straight away? It's hard to think really quickly isn't it? Right, time to put all of our tips and tricks into practise.

Now I'm going to put a backing on and I'm going to say what we're going to be doing as we're going along, okay? Trying out all three different techniques.

So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to have a go at starting on different beats in the bar.

Okay so I'll clap a rhythm and I want you to see if you can start on two, three or four okay? My turn Yeah.

Well done.

Right this time, what we're going to do is you're going to do a call and response.

I'm going to an example first, then I'm going to leave a gap for you to have a go, okay? So my turn first and then you're going to have a gap, okay.

So here's my go.

One, two, one, two, three, four My turn.

My turn.

Last one.

Yeah, well done right last one now.

we're going to try and do the offbeat.

Now, this is quite a quick piece.

So see if you can clap on the twos and the fours, okay The weaker beats, okay? My turn Join in when you've got it.

Now, using that idea add some improvisation.

My turn Your turn Yeah, well done! Activity four: To perform our Samba piece.

To finish this unit, we are going to do a final Samba performance.

We're going to have all of our layers of different rhythms and our two breaks and our ending.

Let's see if you can remember what they all are.

We're going to go straight in.

You can choose one of the rhythms. A quick little hint here.

We had one, two, three, four, or one, two, three, four, five, the Samba or High low High alow low or one, two, three, four I love Samba I'm not going to tell you what the breaks are.

I'm going to see if you can remember them, let's go.

You made it to the end of this unit, well done.

There is now a quiz for you to complete to see if you can remember everything we have been learning in this unit.

I really hope you have enjoyed these lessons and hope to see you back at Oak again soon.

Bye bye.

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