Lesson video

Hi, everybody? It's time for another music lesson with me Miss Kilpatrick.

Let's get on.

In this lesson, you will need paper and pencil, your voices and or percussion instruments if you have them in your house and some headphones.

If you don't have headphones, just find a quiet place where you can work undisturbed and turn off any conversations or apps that you have running.

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

We'll start our lesson today with a warmup.

Today, we're going to be using our voices.

Then, we're going to be thinking about structure.

We're going to be composing the 'break.

' We're going to be structuring our sections of music, and then we're having our final performance for the whole unit.

Our warmup today is going to be the song we learned a couple of lessons ago.

I wonder if you remember how it goes.

Let's do a very quick stretch and roll our shoulders.

Take a nice deep breath in, Sh, sh, sh, sh Z- Z- Z Hmm, hmm all right, I think we're ready.

The song goes like this ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ Did you remember how it goes? Fantastic if you did, let's have a go at singing it through one more time.

Off we go.

♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ Excellent, we're going to have a go at singing it in two parts, just like a canon, one part starts, and then the next part starts.

You can pick which part you would like to join in on, or you could create a third part by starting after me.

Lets have a go.

♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ What is a structure? It basically means anything that's been made and put together.

And the structure is all the parts that make the whole.

Structures can be natural like that beautiful peacock feather, or they can be manmade like there's buildings, and the staircase, and the golden gate bridge.

Once you have all the instructions for how to put something together, you can create your structure.

Structures can be simple or really complex.

How do musicians structure? Well, in just the same way, they take all the parts that make up the piece and decide what order to put them in, to create a full piece of music.

Maybe it will just be a beginning, a middle and an end.

Some musicians create parts and allow the players to put the piece together, so that every performance is different.

Some structures are very complex and some musical structures can be quite simple.

We're going to have a look now at a djembe performance.

Let's see how this musician has structured his piece.

He begins with a short introduction and then straight into some complex polyrhythms. A break, and they all playing in unison percussion polyrhythm.

He makes the polyrhythms interesting by adding a different solo sound on the top.

Back to the unison.

Final polyrhythm section.

And a unison ending.

So, what parts have we got so far? Well, we have our 'Tue tue' song and a canon.

We have our polyrhythms from last week, with vocal and djembe.

So now we're going to put in our own introduction.

This might be familiar if you've done any of the other music lessons on rhythm, it goes like this.

♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ Chicken and chips ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ Rice and beans ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ Make your own ♪ You might already be familiar with that.

If not, let's have a go now.

I do the call what's for dinner now? You repeat, I call again and you repeat, chicken and chips! We do the second one, rice and peas! And in the third one, you need to make up your own response, your favourite food or something you had for dinner last night, or maybe something you had for breakfast this morning.

It's up to you.

It just needs to fit into that section at the end of the verse, we're going to have another go, and while we doing it, I'm going to do the call on my djembe here.

So you can hear how it sounds on the instrument as well.

I start high ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ and you repeat down and octave ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ Each time, because their response is lower than the call.

Here we go.

♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ Chicken and chips ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ Rice and beans ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ Well it sounded great.

Right, I'm going to beat it this time without saying the words.

See if you can do the responses with me.

Off we go.

They sounded great.

Well done everybody.

The next section that we know is our polyrhythm section.

And as we said, you can do it vocally.

We love fish and chips, or you can choose a part on any of the instruments that you might have at home.

Now, we need to add the break and this is going to be a solo section for you in our final performance.

So what I'd like you to do is using the worksheet provided, or you can note down this table with your paper and pencil using the rhythm cups that we learned last week.

Can you create an eight beats break for you to say or play as part of our final performance? You can use words to help you with the rhythm, or you can just use the beats and the cups to help you.

It's up to you how it goes.

It just needs to be over eight beats one, two, three, four, five six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And then it will go as a solo as part of our performance.

Pause the video now, and off you go.

Now we should have all the sections we need to create our final performance.

We have our introduction.

♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ ♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ We have our 'Tue tue' song and we have the rock game percussion do you remember? Knee tap, clap, knee tap and cross.

♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ Just like that.

We've got polyrhythms, vocals and percussion.

You have composed the break, but I don't know what that sounds like, but I'm really looking forward to finding out when I hear some of your pieces.

And we're going to use the ending, which is the same as our introduction.

♪ What's for dinner now? ♪ So that's going to end again with your contribution, with your made up dinner, your made up food at the end of that call and response.

So we've got our sections.

How are we going to structure them? How are we going to take those pieces and build our piece of music that creates a really interesting musical journey? I've put a structure together, but you can always create your own piece out of these sections in any way that you like.

That's the beauty of being a musician.

You can chop and change and change things around.

If you like the way it sounds better in a different way.

This is how we're going to put our piece together now, and then you can go off and experiment with how you think it should sound.

This is going to be the final performance.

We'll start, of course, with our introduction, then we've got our 'Tue tue' song and our rock game pattern.

Then you are going to do your break over two lots of eight beats.

So you're going to have this much time, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

If you need to pause the video and practise your break, you can do that.

Then we're going to do the djembe polyrhythms, eight times.

You've got a solo again, one set of eight this time, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, the vocal polyrhythms, four times and our ending, which is the same as our introduction.

And that will be the whole piece.

So let's put it together.

Here we go.

Here we go With our introduction.

♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abofra ba am dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Abrofra ba ama dowa dowa ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Barima tue tue ♪ ♪ Tue tue ♪ Break.

Break.

And that's the end of our performance, well done for all your solos.

Wow! Let's have a think about how much you've learned, over the whole set of lessons.

Pause the video and write down a list of all the musical features and styles and devices that you've learned about over the last seven lessons.

See how long the list is, pause the video now and get writing.

These are all of the things that I could come up with, and I'm sure you've come up with more.

We've sung songs in different styles, you learn to change the tonality of a piece of music from major to minor or back again.

You can keep a steady pulse, you've composed and played rhythmic ostinato and performed those polyrhythmic patterns.

We've looked at opera and recitative and aria.

We've looked at Indonesian gamelan and West African Djembe, and you've composed a solo in a huge performance.

That's amazing, what stars you are, and if there's any more on your list, let me know and I'm sure there will be some things that you learned and want to take forward with your musical journey.

That's it for this lesson.

So all that's left for me to say is goodbye.

And I really look forward to seeing you again in another session, another time, if you'd like to ask your parents or carer to share your work on Twitter @OakNational #LearnwithOak, I'd love to see some of these performances that you've put together, especially those solos that you wrote today.

I'll see you again another time.

Bye everyone.