Lesson video

Hello and welcome to another music lesson with me Mrs. Mina or should I say ♪ Funga alafia ase ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia ase ase ♪ Welcome to everyone, let's start What will we cover in this lesson? We will start with a warm up: Funga Alafia! We will then perform an ostinato.

Then we will perform a song with an ostinato at the same time! And finally there's a challenge for you, a game called: Don't clap this one back! In this lesson, you will need just your body, please take a moment now to clear away any distractions including turning off the notifications of any apps or conversations you have running if you know how to, finally, if you can, try to find a quite place where you won't be disturbed during the lesson.

So when you're ready, let's begin! Now it's time for the warm up, we're going to warm up using the song from the last lesson called Funga Alafia, meaning "welcome".

I may tap the pose in lots of different ways while singing this, repeating it round and round and I'd like you to just try and copy me.

♪ Ready steady off we go ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ Well done, your voices should be feeling warm and your body should be feeling warm.

Pause the video to practise Funga Alafia.

When you finish, press play and we'll carry on.

So what does Funga Alafia mean? Does it mean "This is Nigeria"? Does it mean "Welcome!"? Does it mean "The sun is shining"? Or does it mean "What's for dinner?"? Point the answer you think it's correct.

Well done! It's a traditional welcome song from Nigeria.

So what is syncopation? Is it the "Rhythm patterns where stressed notes are placed off the beat."? Is it "The heartbeat of the music"? Is it "Making sounds using our bodies"? Or could it be "The length of sound - whether it is long or short."? Point to the answer you think it's correct.

Well done! It's "Rhythm patterns where stressed notes are placed off the beat." Just like in Funga Alafia! Last week we really looked into that syncopated rhythm at the beginning of Funga Alafia ♪ Funga A-- ♪ ♪ Funga A-- ♪ And that rhythm was syncopa It was syncopated.

It fell on the off beats.

Let's see if we can remind ourselves of that, my turn first and then yours.

Syn-co-pa your turn My turn: ♪ Syn-co-pa ♪ Your turn: ♪ Syn-co-pa ♪ Super! I hope you remember that rhythm from the last week.

Now that rhythm covers two beats and we are going to turn into a 4-beat pattern by doing it twice: ♪ Syn-co-Pa, syn-co-pa ♪ Let's have a go at that, my turn and then yours.

♪ Syn-co-Pa, syn-co-pa ♪ ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa ♪ Super! Now I wonder if you can make that rhythmic pattern into a cycle, so we keep going and keep going with that rhythm syncopa.

Let's see if we can do it six times in a row like this, my turn first: ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa ♪ ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa ♪ Your turn, ready steady off you go: When we have a repeated pattern, just like that, it's called an ostinato.

That's a repeated pattern that keeps going and keeps going, and for this song a repeated pattern, or an ostinato, is going to sound like this: ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa ♪ and it will run all the way through the song.

Let's see if we can have a go.

I'd like you to cut the repeated pattern, the ostinato with me.

Ready, steady, off we go ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa ♪ ♪ Syn-Co-Pa, syn-co-pa, syn-co-pa ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ Well done! There's our first new word for the lesson: Ostinato: a repeated pattern or phrase Well done for clapping the ostinato to Funga Alafia, our welcome song.

Now here's a challenge for those of you who dare, I challenge you to sing the melody Funga Alafia while clapping the ostinato at the same time.

Let me show you: ♪ Funga alafia, ase, ase ♪ ♪ Funga alafia, ase ase ♪ It's very tricky, but with some practise I'm sure you'll be able to do it.

Pause the video to practise clapping the ostinato while singing the melody at the same time.

Good luck! When you're ready, press play and we'll continue.

Now we're going to learn a new song, this song is from Canada and is used or sung to keep time when in a rowboats or a canoe, I'll sing the whole song for you so you know what it sounds like.

♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Super! Let's have a go together, my turn and then yours.

♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Let's try that one more time, my turn and then yours.

♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Let's see if we can sing all together this time, and I would like you to have a rowing action to the poles as we sing.

Ready, steady, off we go ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ How did you go? You may have noticed that in the beginning of this song there is a very similar, in fact, the same rhythm to Funga Alafia.

This song also has that syn-co-pa rhythm in it, it's got that syncopated melody.

♪ My paddle ♪ ♪ My paddle ♪ ♪ Syn-Co-Pa ♪ Well done if you noticed that! So this lesson is all about ostinatos.

We looked into an ostinato with Funga Alafia and it was the repeated pattern that we clapped while the song was sung.

We're going to do something very similar with this song, the Canoe Song.

An ostinato for this is going to be the last line of the song ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ And you'll notice that I'm singing it and clapping the rhythm at the same time.

Let's try that, my turn first and then yours.

♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Your turn My turn ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Your turn Now I wonder if we can repeat that many times, let's practise that, let's see if we can do it ten times in a row and we'll do it together.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Well done.

For those of you that like standard musical notation, you can see that the side of the slide, and the rhythm is ♪ Syn-Co-Pa-Ta sh ♪ ♪ Syn-Co-Pa-Ta sh ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing sh ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing sh ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing sh ♪ And it's really really important that we leave that rest, that sh, as a silence at the end.

Let's see now if you can hold that ostinato while I sing the tune from the top.

Please sing with me with the ostinato parts ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Well done! Now it's time for a trickier challenge, I would like you to clap the ostinato while singing the melody at the same time.

We're going to repeat the ostinato, the clapping, four times first before we start singing.

Let me show you.

♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Now it's time for you to have a go with me.

Remember we're going to repeat the ostinato four times first.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Again! ♪ My paddle's keen and bright, ♪ ♪ Flashing with silver, ♪ ♪ Follow the wild goose flight, ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Well done.

If you'd like to rewind the track and have another few goes at that, that's absolutely fine.

Pause the video now to practise clapping the ostinato whilst singing.

When you're finished, press play and we'll carry on! So what is an ostinato? Is it the "Rhythm patterns where stressed notes are placed off the beat."? Is it "The heartbeat of the music."? Is it "Making sounds using our bodies"? Or is it "A repeated pattern or phrase"? Point to the answer you think it's correct.

Well done! It's "A repeated pattern or phrase".

Now for the challenge.

We're going to play a game of don't clap this one back.

And some of you might be familiar with this game already, but I will explain the rules for those of you who aren't.

Just like the game "Simon says", I'm going to clap a rhythm and you're going to clap it back to me.

Let's just have a go with that to start with.

Exactly! However, there are two forbidden rhythms that you cannot clap back.

The first one is this ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ If you hear that rhythm then you mustn't clap it back.

Just so that you remember that rhythm and you don't forget it, just tap it on your head ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ On your shoulders ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ On your knees ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ Great, that should be in your memory.

The second rhythm, the second forbidden rhythm, that you must not clap back is ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ That's our ostinato rhythm from the Canoe Song.

Just so you don't forget it, tap it on your head.

♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ On your shoulders ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ On your knees ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ Without further ado, we're ready to play, listen to my rhythm first and then clap it back to me.

♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ ♪ Don't clap this one back ♪ ♪ Dip, dip and swing! ♪ How did you get on? Did I catch anybody out? Well, you could use that game to play with your members of your household over the week.

If you wanted to, you could create some more forbidden rhythms, some more rhythms that aren't allowed to be clapped back to make the game even more tricky for your family members.

Good luck! So that brings us to the end of the lesson.

A really big well done and 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 learned 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 the fantastic things you've learned.

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!.