Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

It's time for another music lesson with me Miss Kilpatrick.

Let's get on.

In this lesson, you will need, your voices and two pebbles or something similar.

We'll start our lesson as always with a warmup.

Then, we're going to learn a Ghanaian call and response song.

I'm going to quiz you on whether it's the rhythm or the pulse.

Can you tell the difference.

Then, we're going to play a rock game and finally, there'll be a challenge.

For our warm up today, we're going to have a go at a quick game of don't clap this one back.

So, if I clap this pattern.

Don't clap this one back, you don't clap it but you can say it out loud.

Don't clap this one back.

Don't clap this one back.

Any of a pattern that's like clap or pat or tap.

You can do that, copy it completely.

But this one.

Don't clap this one back.

Let's give it a go.

Don't clap this one back.

Don't clap this one back.

Don't clap this one back.

Don't clap this one back.

Well done, if you've got all of those correct I'm going to start the main part of our lesson, learning this Ghanaian folk song, and it goes like this.

Let's learn it one line at a time.

I'll sing it first, you sing after me.

Let's have a go at putting the whole thing together.

Be careful with the middle lines.

That first one goes up.

The second one, goes down.

Let's just practise those two lines both together with me.

Off, we go.

And the ending.

Rest.

Think that rest in your head.

Let's try the whole thing.

One, two, one, two, three and.

Great.

Then we're going to add, a little bit of body percussion.

Or a few claps to put in.

So would you guys.

Great.

You can always go back and have another go, at learning that song you're really confident.

Now then, I'm going to give you a little bit of a challenge.

And I want you to think am I clapping the rhythm, or the pulse.

Let's check, we know the difference.

This is the rhythm.

I'm clapping every syllable of the words.

And it's made up of long sounds and short sounds.

What then, is the pulse.

Do you think about, your own pulse, your own heartbeat.

It's a steady beat.

It's a rhythm, pulse against.

So this, is pulse.

Have a go, let's clap the pulse.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, steady beat all the same.

Let's do the rhythm to.

One, two, of we go.

And again.

This is your challenge.

Am I clapping the pulse or the rhythm? It was the pulse.

Well done if you've got that right.

What about this one.

Pulse or rhythm.

The rhythm, well done.

The last one.

So what am I clapping? What was I clapping there? The pulse or the rhythm? It wants the pulse, well done.

We're now going to learn, the rock game.

I've got my two pebbles here.

If you don't have the pebbles you can just do the arm movements that we learned.

That's absolutely fine.

I don't need them just now.

I'm going to place them down to the side, for later.

So, we'll start just letting the arm actions.

This is if you're playing, by yourself like me.

If you have other people in your house that would like to join in, I'll show you how to do it as a game with more people in a circle in a moment.

But we're just going to start.

Now, do you know your left hand from your right hand? Left hand, give me a wave.

Right hand, give me a wave.

Excellent.

That's the first thing.

We're going to start, with our right hand and we're going to go like this.

Tap our knees, right hand over.

Tap our knees, left hand over.

Knees, right hand over, knees, left hand over.

Keep doing that.

Tap and cross.

Tap, left hand cross.

Tap, right hand cross, tap, left hand cross.

Tap right hand cross, tap left hand stop.

Okay.

Pick up one of your rocks or your objects that you're going to pass and put it on the floor, in front of you.

Instead of tapping on knees, we're now, need to pick up the rock.

Instead of crossing to the other knee, we're going to place the rock on the other side.

And then our hand, will pick up the rock and move it over.

Pick up the rock and cross it over.

Pick up the rock and cross it over.

If you're playing, with more than one person this is where you can pass the rock round the circle.

So you don't need to change direction.

As long as you all pick up the object with the same hand, you cross over and give it to the person next to you.

And they will have given you something that you pick up and pass on again.

And so you play it round and round in a circle.

But because I'm on my own, I'm going to keep swapping side to side.

So I always have something to pick up.

So, we're going to go like this.

Pick it up, cross it over.

Pick it up, cross it over.

Pick it up, cross it over.

Pick it up, and over.

Up, right hand over, pick it up, left hand over.

Pick it up right hand over, pick it up, left hand over.

Great.

How, do we do it with two? Here we go.

So, let's it with our hands first.

We go.

Knee clap knee cross.

Knee clap knee cross.

Knee clap knee last time.

Knee clap knee and cross.

With our two stones or two rocks, it's going to be, on the floor, click together, on the floor, cross them over.

On the floor, click together, on the floor click them over.

Okay.

If you're playing with more than one person, you tap, click.

Tap cross one over, let it go.

And you're going to pick up, the one that the person next to you has just given you.

So have end up with two again.

But because I'm playing with just me, I'm going to, do the crossover arms method.

Here we go.

Tap, click.

Tap, cross.

Tap, click.

Tap, cross.

Tap, click.

Tap, cross.

Tap, click.

Tap, cross.

Now, you can go back and have a go as many times as you need.

I'm going to have a go, double speed this time.

So it's going to go, from click, from cross.

from click, from cross.

Like this.

Here again.

Off we go.

Well done.

And if you want to play that as a game in a round that's makes it even more fun.

Now we're ready, with all the parts for our ostinato patterns to put them together.

Starting with, the pulse.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

The heartbeat of the music.

One, two.

Now you can use your rocks for this.

That's what I'm going to use.

Here we go.

One, two, three, four.

Keep it nice and steady.

And stop.

Great.

Part two.

The rhythm, for the, that we did in our song, at the beginning.

We can just clap this, one, two, off we go.

Stop.

Great.

The next part.

Is our rock game.

So, if you were playing without anything just doing the hand actions, knee clap knee and cross, that's absolutely fine.

If you want to play, with your actual rocks then you can do that, that we did before.

So we did tap together, tap cross, tap together, tap and then cross.

That's up to you, what you want to play with and how you want to do it.

We're going to put that together now.

Pick apart that you want to play, the pulse the rhythm or the rock game pattern, and play it through with all the parts together.

Here we go.

One, two, three, four.

Ready to sing.

And stop.

Now for your challenge, I would like you to add another ostinato pattern.

We've done this before with our work.

So there should be no problem at all.

You can create any pattern that you like.

Perhaps choose another line from the song that we learned, and use the rhythm of the words to make your ostinato.

Maybe you want to try and make another pattern for the rock game.

That's your challenge.

Pause the video now and have a go.

We've come to the end of our lesson today.

Make sure you had a go at performing your ostinato to the other three in the video.

Well done on all the fantastic music work that we've done today.

The last thing I'd like to ask you to do if you can, ask your parents, or carer to share your work at Oak National #LearnwithOak.

And then I can see some of your really good ostinatos.

If you would like to, you could share your music work with your teacher as well.

I'm sure they'd love to see everything that you're getting on with at home.

The last thing to say then is goodbye everyone.

And I'll see you in the next lesson.

Bye.