Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to lesson two of our unit which is all about melody.

So today we're going to be learning how to construct and play melody using something called a scale.

So today we're going to start by recapping the previous lesson, and then there's going to be a listening challenge where you will also be singing and you'll be learning all about the C major scale today using a xylophone.

You're going to learn a melody and play this melody, and we'll finish by listening to Festive March, and I'm going to test your memories.

So in this lesson, you will need some headphones so you can listen to the music.

If you don't have them, just make sure that you're sitting somewhere that you can focus without lots of background noise.

And it will be great to have pen and paper to make any notes.

Definitely, always needing your singing voice with me.

And if you have one, a xylophone, if you don't, just make sure you ask a parent or carer if you can visit the website, PLAYXYLO, with the information at the bottom of this screen, and we'll be using that today.

Let's get learning about the C major scale so you can have a listening challenge.

So the C major scale sounds like this.

That's it going up and going back down.

Can we sing the C major scale together? And we're going to sing it to numbers We're going to start at one and finish on eight.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ♪ Really good.

♪ Can we go back down ♪ ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one ♪ If you managed that with your fingers, that's really good.

'Cause it's not easy, can we try one more time? Singing our C major scale all the way up to eight.

And then back down to one.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ♪ ♪ Back down ♪ ♪ Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one ♪ So here we have us save major scale in the xylophone and you'll notice that our letters are our notes and that there is a big C, ♪ Which is your lower one ♪ ♪ And a smaller C which is your higher one ♪ I'm going to sing something.

Can you repeat it back? ♪ C, D, E ♪ ♪ C, C, B ♪ ♪ B, B, A ♪ ♪ G, F ♪ ♪ C, E, G ♪ ♪ A, A, G ♪ ♪ F, E ♪ ♪ D, D, C ♪ This is the melody we're going to learn today.

I will sing it.

And then can you repeat it back line by line.

Goes like this.

♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ My turn.

♪ C, D, E, C, D, D, D ♪ My turn.

♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ Have a go.

Good, that last line.

♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ Have a go, good job.

I'm going to sing it once and then you're going to sing it after me following the pink dots.

♪ C, D, E, C ♪ ♪ G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C ♪ ♪ G, G, G ♪ This is line two.

♪ C, D, E, C, D, D, D ♪ ♪ C, D, E, ♪ ♪ C, D, D, D ♪ Line three is the same as line one.

♪ C, D, E, C, ♪ ♪ G, G, G ♪ Have a go.

♪ C, D, E, C, ♪ ♪ G, G, G ♪ And then line four is the hardest.

♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ You'll notice that that F and E are quite fast.

♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ Let's have a go with this one.

♪ C, G ♪ ♪ F, E, D, C ♪ Can we put the entire melody together? All four lines, let's have a go.

♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C, D, D, D ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ Have another go.

♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C, D, D, D ♪ ♪ C, D, E, C, G, G, G ♪ ♪ C, G, F, E, D, C ♪ Brilliant, so if you now, with your parent or carer's permission, go onto the PLAYXYLO website, you can have a go at practising that whole melody, and you can either click each note or you can use numbers on your keypad and they are shown underneath each note.

So have a practise and get it up to a fantastic speed and then resume the video once you're finished.

Okay, time now for your bonus and memory challenge.

So we're going to listen to a piece of music, played by an orchestra, and you'll hear much of the melody is played by brass instruments, brass instruments such as the trumpet, the trombone, and the French horn, but which brass instrument is flashing on the screen four times? Is it the trumpet? Is it the French horn or is it the trombone? So get counting when the screen clears.

Make sure you've memorised what the trumpet, the French horn and the trombone look like.

Let's find out what the answer was.

It was indeed the.

Trumpet, so really, really well done today.

We've covered loads of different things, and we started by practising our old songs from lesson one, but then you were listening very carefully to our new C major scale, by singing along with me on numbers, ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ♪ And hen when we discovered the C major scale, we also sang letters.

♪ C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C ♪ And we created and new melody line.

And I'm really hoping that you've now managed practise the whole tune and can play it on the online xylophone.

And then you had a memory test listening to Festive March.

That's it for today.

So thank you for joining me and I'll see you in lesson three.

In the meantime, if you'd like to share your work with Oak National, perhaps singing the C major scale, or perhaps you working on it on the website, then please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter tagging @OakNational and #LearnWithOak See you next time, bye.