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Hello and welcome to another music lesson with me, Miss Miner.

I'm excited to continue on our journey today through Indian Tala.

And we're also going to be looking at tukda.

And you'll find out a little bit more about what that is later.

So let's get started.

What will we cover in this lesson? We're going to start off with our warmup, but we're going to be singing in canon.

If you're not sure what that is, don't worry.

You will find out later.

We're then going to recap the tala cycles learned in the last lesson.

And get to know the Tin Tal cycle even further.

Following that, we're going to learn to speak a tukda with a tihai.

Now I realise there's lots of words in there that perhaps you haven't come across before.

How exciting, by the end of this lesson, you will be an expert.

In this lesson, you will need just your body and of course your brain.

Do make sure that you have cleared away any distractions, including turning off the notifications on any apps or conversations that you have running.

Try to find a quiet place where you can really concentrate to get the most out of this lesson.

When you're happy and you're ready to start, let's go.

So to warm up today, we are going to sing Hari Coo Coo, the Indian lullaby, but we are also going to clap that Tin Tal cycle at the same time.

So this is a little test of your memory from the last lesson to see what you can remember.

I will show you what this will look like first to help remind you.

♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari ♪ ♪ coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari ♪ ♪ coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari ♪ ♪ coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ Let's see if we can do it together.

Challenge yourself to see if you can sing and clap the cycle at the same time.

But if you're finding that tricky, just choose one or the other.

Off we go.

So now we've warmed up our rhythm brain.

We're now going to warm up our singing brain, and we're going to stick with the lullaby Hari Coo Coo except we're going to sing it in cannon.

That's another way of saying we're going to sing it in a round.

So one part will start, Another part will come in with a delay, and then the third part will do the same.

The most important thing about a canon is although you have one part coming in after the other and following the previous parts, it must never ever catch up.

We're going to sing this twice through and you can choose who you would like to sing with.

I will start.

♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo, Yari coo coo ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ ♪ Hari coo coo ♪ ♪ alay ♪ Pause the video to practise this song.

Here are some extra challenges for you.

You could try this in cannon with a member of your household, or you could try this while clapping the tin tal cycle at the same time.

When you've had a go press play and we'll carry on.

Where is Hari Coo Coo from? Is it from India, Ghana, Brazil, or the UK? Points to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

Hari Coo Coo is a traditional Indian lullaby.

Close your eyes and listen to the music.

This is the rag desh that you heard in the last lesson.

However you have come on in leaps and bounds in your knowledge of Indian classical music since last time.

So this time as you listen to it, I would like you to think about when does the tabla start playing? Which other instruments can you hear? Can you hear the rhythms being played on the tabla? How many beats do you think are in the cycle? Have a listen.

So which of these instruments would not be heard in traditional Indian classical music? Point to the answer that you think is correct.

That's right.

This is an agogo bell.

Usually used or heard in samba music.

You will have noticed this instrument here too.

This is a sitar and is used in Indian classical music often to play the raga or the melody.

You will also recognise the tabla there too.

So now we are going to recap on the Indian talas.

On the screen, you can see two rhythm grids.

One of these rhythm grids represents the tin tal.

And possibly you may remember which one that is already.

I'm also going to clap the tin tal now.

And I would like you to therefore tell me which of the two rhythm grids on the screen represents the tin tal.

So listen carefully.

So tell me which one represents the tin tal.

Yes, you're right.

It is the top rhythm grid.

Now this time I would like you to clap the tin tal and I'm going to improvise a rhythm over the top.

Off you go.

So here's a reminder.

Tala, a repeating rhythm pattern usually played on the tabla.

Within this cycle beats are grouped into smaller sections.

Pause to practise the tin tal.

When you've had a go press play and we'll carry on.

What is a tala? Is it a pair of small side-by-side drums often heard in Indian classical music? Or is it a repeating rhythm pattern usually played on the tabla? Within this cycle, beats are grouped into smaller sections.

Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

It's that repeating rhythm pattern or cycle.

So, as I mentioned in the last video, most of this music is improvised by the musicians.

However, sometimes they may choose to play a tukda.

This word, tukda means piece, like a piece of music or a piece of cake.

So this is just like a composition in this case.

Now still they would learn this orally.

So instead of reading notation, they would learn to say this or speak the composition before putting it onto the tabla.

Now I am going to speak this for you in the syllables that they would traditionally use.

However, what I would like you to do at the same time is clap that tin tal cycle to see how it fits.

Off we go.

♪ Ta da ting ting ♪ ♪ Nana tei tei tei tei ♪ ♪ Ka tete ka tete ♪ ♪ Kata da Kata da Kata da ♪ ♪ Ka tete kata da ♪ ♪ Kata da kata da ♪ ♪ Ka tete kata da ♪ ♪ Kata da kata da ♪ Well done.

Now I don't expect you to be able to say all of those syllables.

And in fact, it took me a really long time to practise those, but there is a much easier way for you to pick up the same rhythm using an oral tradition.

So you're listening to it and saying it.

But I'm going to use something you're more familiar with.

Animals.

Now this was an idea by somebody called Yogesh, who is an absolute expert in this field.

And has lots more for you to explore on the ISM website.

So with your parent or carers help and permission, feel free to go on there and have a look at some of his things.

For now, we're going to use this graphic score, using animals to say, or to speak that tukda.

So it goes like this.

♪ I like rabbits ♪ ♪ I like caterpillars ♪ ♪ Spiders and gorillas, ♪ ♪ Octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ And that is in fact, the exact same tukda that I spoke earlier using the syllables.

So we'll do a bit at a time.

My turn and then yours.

♪ I like rabbits ♪ ♪ I like caterpillars ♪ Let's try that one more time.

♪ I like rabbits ♪ ♪ I like caterpillars ♪ Super.

The next line is a bit more of a tongue twister.

♪ Spiders and gorillas ♪ ♪ Octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ I'll do that one more time.

♪ Spiders and gorillas ♪ ♪ Octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Your turn.

♪ Spiders and gorillas ♪ ♪ Octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Lets do that one more time.

Off you go.

♪ Spiders and gorillas ♪ ♪ Octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Super.

And then we are entering or we're within the tihai.

Now the tihai is where the same rhythm is repeated three times within the tukda.

So you'll notice that the next line goes ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Again, try it.

♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Super and we'll say it for the third time.

Same thing again.

Off you go.

♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Super.

Now we're going to try saying this a few times.

So I would like you to look at the graphic notation on your screen and try saying it with me.

I'm just going to keep the pulse on my heart at the moment.

Off we go.

I realise I may have changed the word love for like, but in real, in actual fact, it doesn't matter because love and like both have one syllable.

So for now, I'll stick with like.

Off we go.

♪ I like rabbits ♪ ♪ I like caterpillars ♪ ♪ Spiders and gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ Let's try it one more time.

You can do it.

You're getting it.

Off we go.

That's so tricky.

But you've done so well with the help of Yogesh's, graphic notation you have managed to speak a tukda.

Well done.

So here comes another vocabulary reminder.

A tukda is a rhythmic form played on the tabla that can either be fixed or improvised.

Tukda means piece.

For example, a piece of music or a piece of cake.

Pause the video to practise speaking this tukda.

It took me such a long time that I expect you may need to do it a few times before you're ready and that's fine.

We need to be resilient.

When you've finished press play and we'll carry on.

So what is a tukda? Is it a gorilla? Is it a piece in rhythmic form played on the tabla? Is it a pair of side by side drums? Or is it a stringed instrument? Point to the answer you think is correct.

That's right.

Tukda literally means piece.

Now you've had lots of practise of speaking that tukda.

Now what we're going to do is put that back with the tin tal cycle.

Now, if you're still finding it tricky to speak the tukda, don't worry.

Carry on just doing that.

If you think you've mastered that and you'd like a change, then feel free to clap the tin tal cycle.

If you consider yourself to be an expert, then why not challenge yourself to have a go at both at the same time? Off we go.

Let's have another go.

I realise this is very tricky, but I know you can do it.

Off we go.

Can you believe that at the beginning of this lesson, you didn't even know what a tukda was.

And now you are able to speak one and some of you are able to clap the tin tal cycle at the same time.

What an achievement.

Pause the video to practise speaking this tukda with the tin tal cycle.

Good luck.

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

Now I mentioned this word earlier in the lesson, and that is the tihai.

Now the tihai is when within the tukda, within the piece, we can hear the same section or the same rhythm repeated three times.

So like you can see on this slide, we have ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ ♪ Gorillas, octopus, butterflies, tigers too ♪ And that features three times within our tukda.

So it's going to be your job to make up your own tihai.

I would like you to compose your own rhythm, which can be repeated three times.

Now you may choose to use some of the animals that Yogesh decided to use.

So you could use things like octopus, butterfly, caterpillar.

We're very familiar with speaking those rhythms. If you'd like to feel free to exchange some of those animals for animals of your own and then try it.

So I've tried this ♪ Lion, caterpillar, octopus, butterfly ♪ ♪ Lion, caterpillar, octopus, butterfly ♪ And when I've done that, I'm going to see if it's possible for me to say it three times to make it a tihai.

♪ Lion, caterpillar, octopus, butterfly ♪ ♪ Lion, caterpillar, octopus, butterfly ♪ ♪ Lion, caterpillar, octopus, butterfly ♪ That's a successful tihai, which I could put in the middle of a tukda.

Now I would like you to try and compose your own tihai.

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 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 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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