Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

It's time for another lesson with me, Miss Kilpatrick, let's get on.

In this lesson, you will need paper and pencil or the worksheet provided, your voices, one melodic instrument if you have one at home, headphones, and if you don't have headphones, find a quiet place where you can work undisturbed and try and turn off any conversations or apps that you have running.

If you need to pause the video now to get any of those things you can do so.

Today's lesson is going to start as always with a warmup.

Then we're going to learn about the gong and the kempul as part of the gamelan ensemble.

We're going to go back to the polyrhythms that we've learned before and do a recap on the melody that we learned last week.

Then we're going to complete our gamelan ensemble composition.

And finally, we're going to do a performance together of the whole gamelan ensemble.

Our warmup today is a traditional Indonesian children's songs.

And it's all about children in the garden, in the rain.

And it starts like this ♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ That's quite tricky to sing all at once.

So I'm going to speak it through line by line so you can hear how the words sound.

The tik, tik, tik is the sound of the rain on the roof.

Here we go.

My turn, your turn.

Tik, tik, tik.

Bunyi hujan.

Tik, tik, tik.

Bunyi hujan.

Di atas genteng.

Di atas genteng.

Airnya turung.

Airnya turung.

Tidak terkira.

Tidak terkira.

Cobolah tengok.

Cobolah tengok.

Daun dan ranting.

Daun dan ranting.

Pohon dan kebun.

Pohon dan kebun.

Basah semua.

Basah semua.

Let's try that again.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan ♪ ♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan ♪ ♪ Di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung ♪ ♪ Airnya turung ♪ ♪ Tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok ♪ ♪ Daun dan ranting ♪ ♪ Daun dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun ♪ ♪ Basah semua ♪ ♪ Basah semua ♪ Let's try it with a little bit of a tune this time.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan ♪ ♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan ♪ ♪ Di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung ♪ ♪ Airnya turung ♪ ♪ Tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok ♪ ♪ Duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun ♪ ♪ Basah semua ♪ ♪ Basah semua ♪ Pretty good.

This time, I'm going to sing the whole line together.

One after the other, my turn first.

Here we go.

and, ♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ Your turn.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ My turn.

♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ Your turn.

♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ My turn.

♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ Your turn.

♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ My turn.

♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ Let's try the whole thing together.

Here we go ♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ And again.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ Well done.

You could always go back in the video and learn those words again, so that you were really confident, because now we're going to add some body movements to go with it.

We're going to start on our head.

We're going to move to our shoulders.

We're going to go to our hips, and then to our knees.

So here we go.

It's going to go like this.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ We end on our shoulders.

Let's just try that.

It's just straight down, heads, shoulders, hips, knees.

One more time.

Off we go.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ Now we're going to do something a bit tricky.

Instead of doing our hands both together at the same time, one hand is going to follow the other.

It's tricky.

Takes a bit of practise.

Do you remember in the last lesson we talked about what a gamelan player would do to stop the sound, the metallic of his instrument as they play.

They would tap the note and as they tap the next one they would hold the one they previously played, so then it wouldn't make a sound, so they've got a clean space to make a new sound.

That's what we're doing with our arms. We've got one hand following the other as we go down our bodies.

So, let's just try that with the body percussion only.

So we're going to go head, shoulder, hips, knees.

Should we try it with the song? Here we go.

One and your head.

Off we go.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ How did you get on? Did you manage? Let's try it one more time.

Hands on head.

Off we go.

♪ Tik, tik, tik ♪ ♪ Bunyi hujan di atas genteng ♪ ♪ Airnya turung tidak terkira ♪ ♪ Cobolah tengok, duan dan ranting ♪ ♪ Pohon dan kebun basah semua ♪ Well done, if you did that all the way through.

I'll tell you a secret.

It took me a few tries to get it right.

So you can always practise that throughout the week.

Let's learn a little bit more about some of the instruments of a gamelan ensemble.

On the page here you can see the kempul and the gong.

Remember last week we talked about each of the instruments in the gamelan ensemble, is named in an onomatopoetic way.

That means their name represents the sound they make.

The kempul makes poo sound, and the gong, you can hear that clearly gong in the sound that it makes.

If you are listening to the music at the very beginning in the introduction slide you will have heard some gamelan sounds.

You can go back and listen to those metallic gong sounds.

The kempul and the gong help to articulate parts of the melody that the higher instruments play.

You'll remember, we talked about the patterns of ostinato, that the higher instruments, the melody instruments are playing and the gong helps those players keep in time and understand how many ostinato they have played.

That's what we're going to be adding today to the melodies that we wrote last week, our two interlocking melodies.

Here are the melodies that we learned last week.

And if you've got your worksheet from last week, you'll have your melodies that you composed.

If not, you can always use the melodies here, that's okay.

When you composed your melodies you may remember one of the instructions was to keep a couple of unison moments in your piece.

My unison moments were here, here and here.

So we had note five, remember that the gamelan ensemble is done through number rather than letter name or note name.

So we were using the pentatonic scale, notes one, two, three, five, and six.

And we had note five on our learned melodies that was our unison sound.

I found those unison moments and I added a gong kempul sound to beat one, so that we've got that unison beginning.

I added the kempul sound to beat five, my added a gong sound again to beat eight.

The gong and the kempul, because they play low and long, only play a few times maybe even only once across the ostinato.

So you don't need to fill in all the boxes.

And in fact, it's much better for your task if you have more rest beats than played beats.

The gong is only to emphasise these patterns where they start and where they finish.

So, your task is to pause the video and add a gong or kempul part to your interlocking melodies.

If you have your worksheet from last week you can add your gong and kempul part by copying your melodies into the new worksheet for this week.

If you don't, you can always use the ones that we've got in this video and add the gong and kempul part as you wish.

You can use the ones I've used or you can put the gong in for yourself.

That's absolutely fine.

Pause the video now and compose your gong parts along with your melodies.

Those parts sounded really great.

Now we're going to do a bit of a recap on those original polyrhythms that we learned with the unpitched percussion instruments.

You'll remember we had our woodblock sound, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

We had our guiro on beats one and three.

One, three.

We had our shaker on every beat.

One, tow, three, four.

One, tow, three, four.

Our cymbal sound on beats two and four.

One, two, one, three.

One, three.

And our tambour with that tricky syncopated pattern.

One, two and three, four.

One, two and three, four.

And if you completed the task for that lesson, you will have written your own rhythm to go with our texture.

So you might even have your own parts to add.

We're going to play all of those parts again, you can choose one from our existing polyrhythms, or if you remember your own one, add that in as well.

That's fantastic.

Let's have a practise.

One, two, three, four.

Steady to stop Here you can see the full score for all the instruments.

We have the gong parts, which you will have added today.

The melody parts and the polyrhythm unpitched percussion parts at the bottom.

It looks really complicated.

If you want to take a moment and pause the video to have a look through and see how the parts fit together, you could do that.

Pick apart and see if you can play along.

Have a go at practising through the melodies.

Or of course you can add your own melody that you compose yourself.

Now for your challenge.

I would like you to pick two of the parts from the whole score to play together.

Say, find the body percussion or rhythm part that you composed, the melodies that you composed, and try and pick two of those that you can play together.

Maybe you'll choose your rhythm part and one of your melody parts to sing and perform those together with the full ensemble.

Perhaps your gong part from today plus one of the other rhythm parts.

Perhaps you'll decide to play your two melodies that you composed last week and play them both on an instrument or sing one and play the other.

It's totally up to you, which two you choose, and how much of a challenge you want to give yourself.

In the next part of the video you're going to see the full ensemble performing together and adding your two parts to the texture will make it sound even better, and I can't wait to see the results.

Let's have a go.

One, two, three, four.

Stop! Well, we've come to the end of this lesson.

And that's also the end of our work with the gamelan.

I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have.

If this has really inspired you, ask a parent or carer to help you look out for other gamelan performances, because Javanese and Balinese gamelan are quite different.

So you can have a look and compare the two.

Our lesson is over and thank for joining me today.

The last thing I'm going to ask you, is if you'd like to, your parent or carer can help you to post videos of your work on Twitter @OakNational with #LearnwithOak, and then I can see some of this amazing gamelan ensemble work you've been doing.

I'd really love to see it.

A huge well done on all the learning.

And today's lesson was really challenging, so well done.

All I need to say is goodbye and I'll see you for the next lesson.

Bye everybody.