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Hi everyone.

My name is Mr. Palekar and welcome back to music.

Now we all have been talking about percussion all the way through this unit.

And today we are going to be diving into a different kind of percussion.

In today's lesson, we are going to recap our body percussion piece, Africa.

We are going to explore some beatboxing, and we're going to specifically look at some beatboxing basics.

And we are going to explore our very first beatboxing rhythm.

Now, for this lesson, you will need some headphones, if you have some.

If you don't, don't panic, just make sure that you are somewhere where you can concentrate, and where you won't be disturbed.

You'll need a pencil and some paper, if you would like to take any notes.

And, I know that you will need your hands and your bodies, because we are definitely going to be doing body percussion to begin with.

Let's get started with body percussion piece, Africa.

Now, just like last lesson, we are going to start with our very foundation, our very first ostinato.

You remember, an ostinato is a pattern, a musical pattern, that repeats over and over again.

It looks like this.

My turn first.

I'm going to say it first.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

You've got to be ready.

My turn, and then your turn.

Remember, say it out loud.

My turn.

And then your turn.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

Good! Let's say it four times through.

Here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

Good! Now, our body percussion with this was, and I hope you have been practising.

And we have got stomp, clap, stomp, stomp, clap.

And I said you can alternate, which means you can change which feet you do.

So I go: right stomp, clap, left, left, clap.

You can do it on the same foot, If you'd like to.

Let's try it.

One, two, three, here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

One more time.

Ready? Here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

Very nice.

One more time.

Here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

Now, four times through, ready? Here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

In your head! Great job! Let's try that one more time.

But we're going to do it four times through, and we are going to say it in your head.

We are going to say it in our heads.

Now, if you need to say it out loud to help you do the actions properly, then say it out loud.

It's absolutely fine.

But I'm going to challenge you, see if you can say it in your head while you're doing the body percussion actions.

Here we go.

One , two.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Freeze.

Well done.

Now, that is ostinato one.

And, remember that ostinato means a repeated musical idea.

Let's take a look at ostinato number two.

It sounds like this.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

And stop.

Four times through.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

Great job! Okay.

Let's see if we can add those body percussion actions in, as well.

So that first line: I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

Let's break it down again.

So I've got a friend.

Stomp, pat, pat, pat.

I've got a friend in-- Stomp, pat, pat, pat, pat.

Ready? Try it.

Here we go.

Stomp, pat, pat, pat, pat.

One more time, ready? Here we go.

Stomp, pat, pat, pat, pat.

We can finish that off with a stomp, clap.

On the word Kenya.

Ken-ya.

Try it.

Here we go.

Ken-ya.

One more time.

Here we go.

Ken-ya.

Good! Okay, let's try it.

We'll go all the way through.

Nice and slowly.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

Good! One more time.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

Good! Last time.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

Okay, let's add in the last half of this ostinato.

It goes: I want to go there.

That is-- Stomp, pat, stomp.

Stomp, pat, pat, stomp, clap.

Let's do that together.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Stomp, pat, pat, stomp, clap.

Good.

Now let's do it with the words.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

I want to go there.

Let's glue it together.

So it's going to sound like this: I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

Let's try it really slowly.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

That was good.

Now, one more time.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

Let's try it four times through.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go-- in your head.

Good, let's try it four time through.

And I'm going to challenge you, once again, to say it in your head.

Here we go.

One, two.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

And freeze.

Well done, that is ostinato number two.

Repeated pattern number two.

Let's take a look at ostinato number three.

Now, this one is definitely the trickiest of the three.

So, it's starts the same as ostinato number two.

Let's say it out loud first.

The chant goes: I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

Now try it.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

Let's say four times.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

Good! Now, it starts the same in terms of our body percussion.

So, stomp, pat, pat, pat, pat, stomp clap.

So, exactly the same as the first part of ostinato two, the previous ostinato.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

Try it with me.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

A little bit louder! Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

Good! Next part.

This is the trickier part.

Which I know that some of you can definitely do.

So, I can drive my car there, sounds like this.

I can drive my car there.

Now, I'm going to break that down one more time.

So, we've got our stomp, I.

Can.

Drive.

Let's try that.

One, two, three.

Go.

I can drive.

And again.

Ready? Here we go.

And-- I can drive.

That's a stomp, pat, clap.

Try it with me.

Stomp, pat, clap.

Freeze.

Good! I can drive my.

When we say my, we've gone to this, and then we go down as the folding arms, my.

We pat our arms here.

My.

Ready? I can drive my.

Try it.

Ready? Here we go.

I can drive my.

One more time.

Ready? Here we go.

I can drive my.

Good! When we get to here, our special action, remember, it's coloured in pinky red.

We bring our hands up when we, keep our elbows where they are, but we keep our hands up.

We hit the back of our hands together, and we stomp at the same time.

So we are here, we go: Let's try that again.

One, two, three.

And again.

One, two, three.

Good! One, two, three.

Well, that's using some serious coordination, some serious thinking of using different body parts at the same time.

Let's try that again.

One, two, three.

Good.

Let's do just up there.

So.

I can drive my car.

Just that.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

I can drive my car.

Good, and again.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

I can drive my car.

Good! Last part.

We were there.

We just come back down onto our shoulders.

There.

I can drive my car there.

Try it with me.

Ready? Here we go.

I can drive my car there.

Very nice.

One more time.

Ready? Here we go.

I can drive my car there.

Good.

Let's do it all the way through.

Here we go.

One, two.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

Good.

One more time.

From the top.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

Good.

Four times through.

Ready? Here we go.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

I've got a friend in Gha-na.

I can drive my car there.

I've-- Freeze! Now, this is definitely a trickier body percussion part.

So, don't worry if you haven't got this absolutely perfect.

But I would be excited to see you challenge yourself, to do as best as you can with the actions.

Let's put it together.

And you can decide which ostinato you would like to join in with when we get started.

Here we go.

One, two.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Af-ri, Af-ri-ca.

One, two.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

I've got a friend in Ken-ya.

I want to go there.

Ready? One.

Ready? Two.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

And stop! Pause the video now so that you can practise the African body percussion piece with a partner, friends or family members.

If you would like to practise again together, rewind 20 seconds and let's go through each of the steps.

You can select which part you would like to perform.

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

Beatboxing.

So what is beat boxing? Well, beatboxing is a type of vocal percussion, which imitates the sound of the drum kit, which means it copies the sounds of a drum kit.

It was born out of the style and culture of music called hip-hop.

Which parts of the drum kit? Well, we are all going to imitating, We're going to be copying the sounds, of a kick drum, a snare and a hi-hat.

So our kick drum has a big round sound.

A-- Our snare has a-- It has little metal wires underneath, giving it a slightly metallic sound.

And we have our hi-hat, which is going to give us our nice symbol-y effect with that-- Beatboxing basics.

We're going to go through each of the sounds that you need today to get set up, to start practising beatboxing.

Now, for that we're going to need three letters.

For each of these activities, I would recommend pausing after every single letter and taking the time to go through it so that you can get a right sound for you.

Now, I have a glass of water.

If you have a bottle of water nearby, I think it helps.

Just in case you feel like exhaling too much air, and you need to stop for a second.

That's absolutely fine.

And then you can have some water, and then carry on.

Not a problem.

Okay.

Let's get started with our kick drum.

Remember, that's our big round, low sounding drum.

And we're going to start with the letter P.

You can say P four times.

One, two, three, four.

P P P P.

Now we're going to say power four times.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Power, power, power, power.

Now we're just going to say pow.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Pow, pow, pow, pow.

Good.

Now we're just going to say the-- -part of pow.

The part of pow.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

Good.

That sound is how we're going to make our kick drum.

To do this really, really effectively, we need to make sure that we have a really loose face.

And the way that we're going to do that is through this exercise.

I want you to make a really sad face.

Like you're having a really, really, really bad dinner.

Which of course you wouldn't be.

But let's see if we can have a really, really sad face.

And we're going to make a sound like a horse.

So we're going to vibrate our lips and go You can try that with me.

Sad face.

Big sound like a horse.

And that sound, like vibrating lips, that sound out the side of our mouth, we're going to use that side of our mouth to create our-- So, try this.

One, two, three, four.

And again.

Ready? Here we go.

Good.

Now, to make it really powerful, you need to push a little bit more air out, and you need to think, okay I'm going to put as much energy as I can into this.

Ready? One, two, three.

Here we go.

Good.

Much better.

And that's really important that we don't have tight lips.

We don't want to sound it like this-- That's not the kick drum.

And we definitely don't want to go-- We want a powerful P, a powerful letter P, coming out the side of our mouth.

The-- That sounds a little bit like this-- That is our letter P.

Now I have a microphone today, just so that I know you can hear me really, really well.

You don't need a microphone, just make sure you are practising with enough space, that you can practise without being distracted.

That is our kick drum.

Okay.

Let's go onto our next part.

But if you want to pause and you want to practise that letter P, that kick drum.

Do that now.

The hi-hat.

Okay.

The hi-hat is our metal symbols.

And when they come together, they go-- This is probably the easiest sound because it just involves the letter T.

Try that with me eight times.

One, two, off we go.

While it is the easiest of the sounds, it can be really easy to not get as well as we can.

If we're too lazy, it can sound like this-- Or even worse, it might sound like this-- Like a train slowing down.

We want a-- Really short and crisp sounding T.

For that to happen, we need to make sure we're sitting up.

And we're going to push as much air as we can in a short space of time, out of our mouth.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Eight times through.

Here we go.

Very nice.

Let's try that one more time.

And we're going to do it four times, really slowly.

Here we go.

And-- Good.

Remember, we're not going T T T T T T T.

It's going-- We can also do what's called an open hi-hat.

We go-- One, two, three.

Here we go.

Or-- One, two, three.

Here we go.

See if you can pause the video and explore different ways of using our T to making a hi-hat sound.

We're really looking today for our-- --sound Here we go, with the snare.

The snare is our final sound together.

So we've had our-- --bass drum.

We've had our-- hi-hat.

And now we're going with our snare.

And our snare, like I said, has got those little metallic wires underneath.

Actually, if you haven't played drum kit, if you don't, haven't seen one before, you may not have noticed it.

And it's just underneath it, and it has that sound going-- Which is a K.

Okay? Now for our K we need to, again, use as much energy as we can.

I want you to imagine that K with lots of Hs after it.

So it goes-- Try that with me.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

One more time.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Good.

Now we want to shorten that sound.

So it comes out really short and sharp with that One, two, three.

Go.

And you know, you're doing it right if you put your hand on your tummy and you go-- -and your belly goes in ever so slightly.

Now, you shouldn't force your tummy in.

You should just feel it going inwards, because you're pushing a lot of air out of your mouth in a really short way.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

And again.

Here we go.

Good.

One more time.

See if you can get it even shorter.

Good.

Okay.

Pause the video now.

And see if you can try getting that-- -sound absolutely perfect.

Pause the video now so that you can practise each of the sounds by themselves.

Try to get each sound as clear as you can, and use lots of energy for each practise.

If you would like to, rewind 20 seconds and let's practise again, and go through each of the steps.

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

First beatboxing rhythm.

So, now that we have our foundation sounds for beatboxing, we're going to put them together to create our very own first beatboxing rhythm.

It's going to look a little bit like this.

So we have our P, T, K, T.

Okay? Now, we're not going to say those letters as we beatbox.

But we are going to say it just so we can get used to our very standard rhythms. So everything is on the beat.

It sounds like this.

P, T, K, T.

Can you say it with me? Ready? Here we go.

P, T, K, T.

Very good.

Now let's change that up a little bit.

So instead of doing our P, we're going to go our We're going to put in our kick drum.

So we can go.

T, K, T.

Ready? Two, one, two, three.

Here we go.

T, K, T.

Very nice.

Let's add in our Ts and our Ks as well, and do it really slowly.

So.

It's going to sound like this.

Make sure I have my mic so you can hear me.

So it's going to go: Okay.

Should we try it together? Here we go.

One, two.

One, two, three.

And-- And, freeze.

Ready? One more time.

And, freeze.

Ready? One more time.

And, last time.

Here we go.

Freeze.

Very nice.

Let's try it.

This time we're going to do it two times in a row.

Ready? One, two, one, two, three.

Very nice.

One more time.

Two times in a row.

Very nice.

Four times in a row.

Here we go.

Very nice.

Can you make sure that you all have your-- --as in making sure your stomach goes in a little bit.

So-- -it's going to be nice and palpable.

Your Ts are going to be crisp-- And we've got to make sure that our-- -is definitely nice and powerful.

So-- Let's put it together.

Four times in a row.

One, two, three.

Here we go.

Can we do it eight times in a row? I think so.

Ready? Here we go.

Freeze! Really well done.

Now, this is our basic beatboxing rhythm.

Our very first one, which we're going to build upon next lesson.

So please make sure that you are practising every single minute that you get.

So that we can build on our beatboxing rhythm next lesson.

Well done.

Pause the video now so that you can practise our first beatbox rhythm again.

Remember, you can try to make each sound as clear as you can for a perfect performance, that's what we're aiming for.

If you would like to, rewind 20 seconds and we can practise it again together.

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

Hey.

A huge well done for all of your work today.

Great job.

Now, from today's lesson, you can now perform one or more of the parts of the body percussion piece, Africa.

You can practise using our basic beatboxing sounds.

And you can perform your first beatboxing rhythm.

Make sure you practise this before our next lesson.

If you would like to share any of your beatboxing, or your body percussion, or any of the percussion work that you've been doing this unit, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

A great job today.

And I'm looking forward to our last lesson on percussion together, next time.

From me, goodbye.

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