Lesson video

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

I've had a particularly exciting day today as I've finally managed to make a new ganza, a little bit smaller than my milk bottle which I had before.

So, I've taken this out of my recycling and using rice in a smaller pot, has meant I have much more control over those rice grains inside and I'm very very pleased with my ganza.

As you know, we've been exploring sound sources in the home since the beginning of this unit and I look forward to carrying on with you today.

So, let's get going.

What will we cover in this lesson? We're going to start off with a warm-up, singing with accompaniment.

We're then going to learn a new song with rhythmic accompaniment.

Following that, we're going to enhance a song with more percussion sounds.

And as a challenge for you, you're going to compose your own rhythmic accompaniment using home sound sources.

So, in this lesson, you will need your homemade ganza from the last lesson if you have it, your body, two plastic cups if you have them, if not, anything that will tap together, and your kitchen instruments if you can get hold of them.

Do pause the video now, and go and collect anything that you need with your adult's permission from home.

If you don't have any of the things here on the screen, please don't worry as there will be alternative ways of making that sound all the way through the video.

Do try and find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed during the lesson.

That includes turning off any notifications on any apps or conversations that you have running.

And when you're ready, press play, and we will continue.

So, we should now be ready for our warmup.

In the challenge of the last lesson, we were singing Captain Go Sidetrack your Train with our homemade ganza playing the ostinato of shakey-shakey, shakey-shakey, shakey-shakey, shakey-shakey.

You should have your homemade ganza with you, but if you don't please don't worry as we will certainly need you to still sing along.

Let's try it.

We're going to do one bar in, introduction, on our ganza and then we're going to start singing.

Ready, steady, here we go.

♪ Off we go Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super! Let's try that one more time, with a bar's introduction on our ganzas.

Off we go.

♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super! Well done.

Are you impressed with my new ganza? It's so much easier to control than the old milk bottle I had before.

So, now it's time for you to pause the video and practise the song with the ganza part.

And you can resume once you're finished.

Which of these instruments is not a percussion instrument? A ganza, a trumpet, a timpani drum, or a guiro? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done! A trumpet does not belong to the percussion family.

In fact, the trumpet belongs to the brass family.

So, we're now going to learn a song called "Chumbara." Chumbara is in fact a totally nonsense word.

It doesn't mean anything at all, and could technically be replaced by any other three syllable word you can think of.

The song goes like this.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ chum, chum, chum! ♪ Let's learn it bit by bit, and we're going to learn it with the body percussion as we go.

My turn first, and then yours.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Ready, steady off you go.

♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ Super! The next section goes like this.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara chum ♪ Your turn.

Off you go, ♪ Chumbara, chumbara chum ♪ Super! We're going to glue those two section together, so it goes like this.

My turn first, and then yours.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, chum ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off you go.

♪ ♪ ♪ Super, well done.

If you had any problems with that first section, please do rewind the video and have another go.

Super.

The bar that comes after what we just learned is this.

♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ And those of you that may be learning instruments or might have done some music theory might recognise that as a descending major scale.

♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Do, do, te, la, so, fa, mi, re ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ So we're coming down in steps, we jump a great big octave leap, and then come down in steps.

My turn, and then yours.

♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, your turn ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ Super.

We're going to glue that to the section that came before.

So now it sounds like this.

My turn.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ Your turn.

♪ Ready, steady, off you go.

♪ ♪ ♪ Super.

The second section of the song sounds almost exactly the same as the first section.

See if you can spot the difference.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ Did you spot the difference? Yes! It's that last bar.

Instead of ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ you just have ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ Let's see if we can try the whole of that second section.

♪ Ready, steady, together, go ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ Well done.

Now it's time to pause the video to practise the song.

Please do practise it with the body percussion that we've been trying.

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

So, what does Chumbara mean? Does it mean good morning, does it mean welcome, is it, nonsense, it doesn't mean anything at all, or does it means we love music? Point to the answer you think is correct.

Well done.

It's absolute nonsense, and it could be replaced with any other three syllable word that you can think of.

So, for this next activity, you're going to need a couple of plastic cups.

If you don't have two plastic cups, please don't worry, you can use anything at all you can tap together.

If you haven't got that either, it's also possible to play the song coming after this with body percussion.

So please, do not worry.

However, if you do have your two plastic cups, I would like you to make sure you've got them with you, and I would like you now, to experiment with their timbre, with their sound.

I wonder if the sound quality changes depending on the way you use them? For example, I could tap them on the table, I can tap them together this way, Or I can tap them together this way, Or maybe I could find other ways of making a sound using these cups.

I challenge you to pause the video now, and find as many different ways that you can to play these cups, and to see how that affects the timbre each time.

Pause the video now, and have a go.

Now, Karen from NYCOS is going to show you how you can take a song to the next level using your two cups.

Watch very carefully, and if you enjoy the activities, there are lots more on their website.

So, over to Karen.

Hi everyone, and welcome to today's NYCOS daily challenge.

Today we are going to do a song called Chumbara.

And for this you'll need two cups, like this.

Don't worry if you don't have cups, you can use any two items that you can pick up and tap together for this song.

Anything would work fine.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ So we'll look at that pattern a little bit slower now.

We start with the two cups in our hands, like this, and we follow this pattern throughout the song.

It goes, one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

So a four beat pattern all the way through.

We'll try that now with the song and then have a little look at the bits in the middle of the song.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara, ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ At the end of the song, we don't have the four beat pattern, we just do Floor, tap, floor.

We'll now have a look at the pattern that comes in the middle of the song.

It is quite tricky, and we'll go through it slowly as always.

I'll show you one more time, and then we'll go check it out.

♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ So we can break that down into numbers one to eight.

So we start with both cups in each hand, number one is down, one.

We pick up one cup, we tap our hands, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

So I'll show you that one more time.

We go one, pick up two, tap three, then four, up five, tap six, down seven, up eight.

We'll put that together a little bit quicker.

It goes one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

A bit quicker.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And now we'll add in a down at the end to carry on the song, like this.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one.

So let's put that together with the singing like this.

♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ So we'll put that little middle bit in together with the rest of the song now.

♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chumbara, chumbara ♪ ♪ Chum, chum, chum ♪ Now, it's time to pause the video to practise the cup pattern.

I strongly encourage you to practise singing it as well as doing the cup pattern at the same time.

This is a key skill that musicians need to have to be able to multitask on to more than one thing at the same time.

Only when you're ready, press play.

As we will be using this cup pattern a little bit later on.

So, what does timbre mean? Is it, more than one rhythm played at once? Is it the quality of the sound, how you can distinguish one sound from another? Is it how fast or slow the music is? Or is it how loud or quiet a sound is? Point to the answer you think is correct.

You're right, it's the quality of a sound.

So I really hope you enjoyed that song Chumbara with the NYCOS daily challenge of the cup pattern to accompany it.

Now, I liked that cup pattern so much that in fact we're not going to get rid of it just yet.

We're going to need it for the next song.

So, if you do feel like you do need a little bit more practise to get it really secure, do please rewind the video and have another few turns.

We're going to use that cup pattern now, with our original song from our warm up, Captain go sidetrack your train.

I'll show you in slow motion, what that's going to look like.

♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super.

Before we start practising that together, I want you to listen one more time, and this time I'd like you to listen out to the parts of the song where the cup pattern is not just on the beat.

So I'd like to hear which part of the song, do we do this on.

Or, which part of the song do we do this on.

Have a listen one more time, and really make sure you know which parts of the song they are.

♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super.

This time, I would like to just join in with the cup pattern, but I will do the singing for now.

This means you can concentrate on that rhythm that's going on underneath.

If you don't have cups, you can do this.

Just like we did when learning the Chumbara song.

♪ Ready, steady, here we go.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super.

If you've got the hang of that, then do sing with me this time, but if you think you need a bit more practise, just focus on the cup pattern one more time.

♪ Ready, steady, here we go.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super.

If you need any more practise at that, please rewind the video and have another go.

Super.

You must be happy with your cup pattern and ready to move on.

So we're also going to add back in, our ganza rhythm from the warm up.

So, ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Try that one more time with me.

You can use your homemade ganza, or if you don't have one you can pretend to shake one, so you're practising your movement, or, if you prefer to, you can do the vocal percussion.

As we sing.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Super, well done.

And to embellish our accompaniment to our song even further, we're going to bring back our djembe drum, or should I say our homemade djembe drum, which, for me, is a cardboard box.

Now, arguably this is the most important part of our four layer pattern, because this is going to keep the pulse or the heartbeat of the music throughout.

So, it's going to go like this.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Now, if you don't have a cardboard box you can tap this rhythm on your knees.

I'd like to try it with me now.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Well done.

So, we are now ready to put our song, with far more interesting accompaniment parts together.

If you like to feel in control of the music, then I certainly suggest you stick with the djembe part.

If you like a little bit more of a challenge, then go with the ganza part, or if you really enjoyed the cup pattern challenge today and by far the most difficult, then go with the cups.

Whichever part you choose to play, I really encourage you to sing at the same time.

That's a really, really fantastic skill to master.

Musicians are multitasking all of the time, and it's something you should be doing too.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time, ♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ Pause the video now to practise any of those parts again.

When you're ready, press play.

So now it's time to make up your own extra parts of the rhythmic accompaniments.

And I've decided to improvise, on my guiro.

I've kept my ganza, and I'll be keeping the pattern on the cups.

♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ ♪ Number one in line, coming in on time.

♪ ♪ Captain, go sidetrack your train.

♪ 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 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 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, 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 today.

Bye!.