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Hello, my name is Miss Miner.

Nice to meet you.

I wonder if you can answer back this time with yours.

Hello, my name is Miss Miner.

Super, I'm really glad you're here to join me for another music lesson.

[Miss Miner] What will we cover in this lesson? We'll start off with a warm up and recap our learning so far.

We'll then explore the rolls of a jazz ensemble.

We will recognise on and off beats in other pieces of music.

And there's a challenge to find on and off beats in the home.

In this lesson, you will need: Your body and voice to make music, and some space to move around.

Please take a moment now, to clear away any distractions including turning off the notifications on any apps or conversations you have running, if you know how to.

Finally, if you can, try to find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed during the lesson.

Okay, so when you're ready, let's begin.

So what is rhythm? Is it the pattern of sounds, the heartbeat of the music, making sounds using our bodies, or the length of sound, whether it's long or short? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done, it's the pattern of sounds.

What is subdivision? Is it the heartbeat of the music, creating sounds with our voice to imitate a percussion instrument, making sounds using our bodies or breaking down a beat into smaller parts? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done, it's breaking down a beat into smaller parts.

Now I'd like to remind you of the game Switch, which we played in the last lesson.

Sometimes you will be tapping on the beat.

ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and.

And sometimes you'll be tapping off the beat.

One AND two AND three AND four AND.

When I shout switch, you need to move from one to the other.

Ready? On the beat.

Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Well done.

[Miss Miner] Pause the video to practise switching between on and off beats.

When you're ready, press play.

So which of these images represents "on the beat", is it the blue, or the green? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

Which of these images represents "off the beat"? Well done.

Now, we're going to explore on and off the beat patterns in jazz music.

To do this, we're going to create our own jazz ensemble just by using our voice.

We're going to start off with singing the bassline.

This is generally played by either a double-bass or a bass guitar.

The whole bass line sounds like this.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, doooo.

♪ We'll go through it slowly.

My turn first.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ Let's try that again.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ Super, we sing that pattern twice.

And then we sing the same pattern but just a little bit higher.

We call this a sequence in music.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ Let's have another go.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ Then we go back to the first pattern we sang which is a bit lower.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ I'll sing that first half all together and then I'd like you to echo that back to me.

My turn first.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, doooo.

♪ Off you go.

♪ Do, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ Super.

The next section sounds like this.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ I'll sing it one more time.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ Have a go.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ Let's try it one more time.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ And then we go back to the original pattern.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

♪ I'm going to sing the whole cycle a few times round.

When you think you've got it, join in.

It doesn't matter if you sing the wrong notes.

This is jazz, and in jazz music there's often a lot of improvisation that goes on.

And when we're improvising, that means we're creating and performing music spontaneously.

That means we're doing it on the spot.

We're making it up, with no preparation and with no music in front of us.

Improvisation is something that happens all the time in jazz music.

So please don't worry if you get something wrong.

You're just improvising.

Sing with me when you think you've got it.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, doooooo.

♪ Now we're going to move onto our rhythm section.

Represented by the drumkit in this case.

This is going to be a 4-beat pattern.

On beats 1 and 3 are going to be on the chest.

And beats 2 and 4 are going to be a click.

Like this.

One , two , three , four.

Let's try it together.

Off we go.

One , two , three , four.

Do you think we can increase the tempo, if we can speed it up a bit to get it up to the speed of that walking bassline? In which case we're going to do this speed.

One, two, three, four.

One , TWO , three , FOUR.

Off we go.

One, two, three, four.

One , two , three , four.

Super, well done.

If you need some more practise at that, rewind the video and have another watch.

We're now going to move on to our brass section.

And for our brass section symbol I've put a trumpet on your screen.

The brass section part sounds like this.

♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ Now just like the offbeats we've explored so far, this melody, or this motif, this musical idea doesn't start on the first beat of the bar.

So it goes one two, ♪ Sing up ♪ one, two.

♪ Sing up ♪ One, two.

♪ Sing up ♪ Let's have a go.

I reckon you can join me straight away.

Just watch for my finger.

When I go like this, it means we need to go up a note and then back down a note.

1, 2, 3, 4.

One, two.

♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ ♪ Sing up ♪ Super, well done.

Now we're going to move onto the fourth part of our jazz ensemble.

I've used a picture of a saxophone to represent this.

Now this part is going to be similar to a jazz improvisation.

Where a jazz musician is making it up on the spot.

They're performing spontaneously without any written music in front of them.

That means it will never be the same twice.

And whatever you produce, will not be the same as what other people will do.

So that means I can't teach you this.

I would like just to have a go at improvising at making up a solo over the top.

Using the syllables doo-bee-do.

I'll give you an example.

♪ Do, do, bee-do-bee do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Do, do, bee-do-bee do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Bee-doo, bee-dooooooo.

♪ ♪ Do-Be-Do, Do-be-do, Dooo-do.

♪ ♪ Be-Do-Be, do, do-do.

♪ ♪ Be-Do-Be, do, do, do-wah, ba-do, ba-dooo.

♪ Now I just made that up.

I couldn't do the same thing again.

So I'd like you to pause the video now and have a go at improvising on the syllables do-be-do.

Let's start with the bassline.

♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ Here come the drums. ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

♪ Here come the brass.

♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up ♪ Get ready to improvise, whatever you like.

♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do - Sing up - Do-be-do-be-do ♪ ♪ ♪ [Miss Miner] Pause the video to practise each of the four parts.

When you've done that, press play and we'll carry on.

So what does improvise mean? Does it mean to create and perform music spontaneously without preparation? Or does it mean to perform a written melody? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

So, I wonder where else you can find or play offbeats and onbeats Have a listen to this piece of music called "Colonel Bogey" and see if you can find the on and offbeats.

If you can find the onbeats, tap them on your chest.

And if you can find the offbeats, you can click them.

Let's have a listen.

♪ ♪ Well done! You may have recognised some of that piece of music.

The second piece of music, I think you may recognise too.

This is one of the movements from the Nutcracker ballet, written by Tchaikovsky.

And this is "The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy".

♪ ♪ Well done.

I'm sure you may have recognised some of that one too.

[Miss Miner] Here's the challenge, performing offbeats in your home.

What rhythms can you hear at home? Can you hear the ticking of the clock, the marching of feet or some music on the radio? Why not try tapping along, finding the on and off beats.

For example, you might hear the ticking of a clock.

Find the beats.

Can you find the on and offbeats? What about just the offbeats? Well done.

See what are the beats you can find at home.

[Miss Miner] Pause the video to the practise the challenge.

When you're ready, press play.

So that brings us to the end of the lesson.

A really big well done on all the fantastic learning you've achieved in this lesson.

I've got two final things I'd like you to do now.

Firstly, think back and identify one key thing you've learnt today.

It's totally up to you what it is.

Secondly, if you'd like to, please take a picture of your work and ask your parent or carer to share it with your teacher, so that they can see all the fantastic things you've learnt.

If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

Now don't forget to complete the end of lesson quiz.

Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you, take care, and enjoy the rest of your learning for today.

Bye!.

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