Lesson video

- Hello, everyone! Welcome to the final lesson six of this unit on syncopation.

Today, we're gonna carry on our Samba work.

We're going to compose our very own Samba break and put all of these things into our Samba piece.

We're going to recap lots of the things we have learned in this unit, and to finish there will be a quiz to make sure you understand what we have learned.

Let's go.

In this lesson, you will need some paper or the worksheet that is provided with this lesson, a pencil, and of course, your brain.

In today's lesson, we are going to perform syncopated rhythms, recap the songs from this unit, compose a Samba break and perform a Samba piece with a break.

Activity one: Performing syncopated rhythms. Let's look at the definition for syncopation one last time.

Rhythm patterns where stress notes are placed off the beat.

- Right, let's remind ourselves of our hello warmup.

Are you ready? Straight in.

♪ Hello, hello, hello ♪ ♪ Get your body moving, let's go ♪ ♪ Stamp your feet and clap your hands ♪ ♪ Turn your brain on focus now ♪ Well done! This time, what I would like you to do is I would just like you to keep the pulse rather than the rhythm, okay? So tap in that rhythm on your shoulders or on your knees.

Ready? My turn, your turn.

♪ Hello, hello, hello ♪ ♪ Get your body moving, let's go ♪ ♪ Stamp your feet and clap your hands ♪ ♪ Turn your brain on focus now ♪ Well done! All right, we're going to layer some rhythms now.

I'm gonna clap each one separately first so we can go over them together and then we're going to put them all layered on top of each other.

Can you remember what it's called when we have lots of rhythms being played at the same time? It's a polyrhythm.

Here's number one.

One , two, three, four.

One, two, and, three, four One, two, and, three, four One, two, and, three, four One, two, and, three, four Join in.

One, two, and, three, four One, two, and, three, four One, two, and, three, four Well done! Let's have a go at the second one now.

One, two, three, four.

One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four One, and, two, three, and, four Well done! Another third rhythm.

One, and, two, three, four One, and, two, three, four One, and, two, three, four Join in.

One, and, two, three, four One, and, two, three, four One, and, two, three, four One, and, two, three, four Let's layer them now.

Choose your favourite one first.

And then the video will be played twice.

If you would like to do it for a third time, you can rewind.

Rhythm one.

One, two, three, four Rhythm two.

Rhythm three.

Well done! Now let's try again.

Choose a different rhythm.

Rhythm one.

One, two, three, four Rhythm two.

Rhythm three.

Well done! Right, we're going to do some improvising now.

Improvising means we make up a pattern on the spot.

It is not written down or pre-planned.

I would like your improvised patterns to feature syncopated rhythms. So you are going to try and clap on the ands of the beat.

Let's recap.

What does improvise mean? Does it mean to write down a piece of music? To make a pattern on the spot? The heartbeat of the music or a repeated pattern or phrase? Have a think.

It means to make a pattern on the spot.

Well done, if you've got this right.

Activity two, to recap the songs from this unit In lesson one, we learned a new song called "Take Time In Life," didn't we? I'm going to sing it once in this lesson just to remind you, okay? So I'm gonna keep my pulse going.

I'm gonna sing it first, okay? ♪ I was passing by my brother called me ♪ ♪ And he said to me you better take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ 'Cause to got far way to go ♪ Has that reminded you how it goes? Are we ready? Get your pulse going.

Ready? We'll sing it together.

Off we go.

♪ I was passing by my brother called me in ♪ ♪ And he said to me you better take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ 'Cause you got far way to go ♪ Well done! This time we're going to sing it through.

And every time we hear that syncopated rhythm I want you to clap it and bring it out.

So for example, we might sing it like this.

♪ I was passing by my brother called me ♪ ♪ And he said to me you better take time in life ♪ There was that rhythm.

Should we have it go, to see if we can get them all in clapping the syncopated rhythm.

Off we go.

♪ I was passing my brother called me ♪ ♪ And and he said to me, you better take time ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time ♪ ♪ 'Cause you got far way to go ♪ Did you manage to get all of them? How many were there in total? Right, let's have a go at layering those rhythms up now and we'll finish with this song on the end, okay? You can choose which rhythm you clap along or you can rewind this video and do all three, okay? So we're going to start with the syncopated, ready? One, two, three, four.

Another next one.

And now the quavers.

Off we go.

♪ I was passing by my brother called me ♪ ♪ And he said to me, you better take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ People take time in life ♪ ♪ 'Cause you got far way to go ♪ Well done! Okay, are we ready? So this is our pulse.

Off we go.

♪ Four white horses on the river ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is rainy day ♪ ♪ Come on and join our shadow play ♪ ♪ Shadow play is a ripe banana ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is rainy day ♪ Well done! Should we go a little bit quicker, okay? This time I'm going to click in two, okay? 'Cause we're going to go a lot faster instead of going all the way through, okay? So this is going to go like this.

♪ Four white horses on the river ♪ Okay, we're ready? Off we go.

♪ Four white horses on the river ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is rainy day ♪ ♪ Come on and join our shadow play ♪ ♪ Shadow play is a ripe banana ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey, up tomorrow ♪ ♪ Up tomorrow is rainy day.

♪ Well done, if you managed to get all the way to the end and get all the words right as well.

Let's recap.

What is it called when lots of rhythms are layered together? Syncopation, polyrhythm, multirhythm or rhythmoso? Have a think.

And the answer is polyrhythm.

Poly means lots, lots of rhythms layer together Activity three, to compose a Samba break.

For the next part of this lesson you are going to compose your very own rhythm pattern.

It must be syncopated.

So one of the notes that you use must feature on the and of the beat.

Let's go over the notation you can use once more just to make sure we understand.

So we have crotchets.

One beat.

We have crotchet rest, that mean a shh for one beat.

We have quavers.

You can have these as single quavers, which are half a beat and joined together, which make a full beat.

The quavers on their own are a great one to use with syncopation, and they have rests as well.

Then we have semiquavers.

These are a quarter each, and we go, And a rest.

Remember we did some breaks last lesson in Samba.

There was some whistles and then you had to listen to my call and you did a response.

Well, today you are going to compose your very own response.

On the screen, you can see my call.

It goes like this, one, two, three, four.

Your response fits here.

Your response fits here.

I would really like it if you can get your response to be syncopated as well.

So just like we did in lesson four, where you compose as syncopated rhythm, you are going to do the same here.

But this time, it's going to feature after a call in the Samba piece.

Music worksheet for lesson six, activity three.

For this activity, you are going to compose your own syncopated response.

Make sure your rhythm includes notation on a plus and offbeat.

Your challenge, can you perform your pattern in the Samba piece after this? Here is my call.

One, and, two, and, three, and, four, and.

One, and, two, and, three, and, four, and.

See if you can come up with a response that has a note on an and.

Pause the video now to complete your task, resume once you've finished.

Activity four, to perform the Samba piece with breaks.

Now, let's have a go at the different rhythms. Number one on the screen is our base.

One, two, three, four.

Join in.

On the beat.

Rhythm number two, okay? This has got an offbeat feel to it, okay? For this one, I'm going to choose the tambourine, okay? And this one goes like this.

♪ I like banana ♪ ♪ I like banana ♪ ♪ I like banana ♪ I like, join in.

♪ I like banana ♪ ♪ I like banana ♪ ♪ I like banana ♪ ♪ I like banana ♪ Fantastic, well done! Right, next one.

This one is going to go like this.

♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba.

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ Join in.

♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, we love the Samba ♪ Well done! And the last one, I'm going to use the ganza now, it goes like this.

♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ Join in ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ ♪ Apple and pear, shh ♪ If you want to rewind the video and have another practise at these rhythms, please feel free.

Or you can carry on and choose your favourite and we'll start to layer our Samba piece of music.

Okay, each of these boxes is a different rhythm.

I hope you've chosen your favourite.

There's going to be two rounds in this video, so you can try out two patterns.

If you want to do all four, all you have to do is rewind, okay? I'm pattern one, off we go, ready? One, two, pattern, one.

Pattern two.

Pattern three.

Pattern four.

Well done! Choose a different pattern this time.

We're gonna have another go, okay, ready? One, two, pattern, one.

Patter two.

Pattern three.

Pattern four.

Well done! Remember, if you'd like to try any more patterns, just rewind now.

Right, before we put your call into our Samba piece, let's have a practise at the calls that we did in lesson five.

My turn, your turn, okay? When my arms go out that is the response and you are going to clap it back.

So the first one, my turn, one, two, three, four.

Okay? So when you hear the number one, that's what you are going to do.

Number two goes like this, one, two, three, four.

My turn.

Your turn.

And the last one, you're going to hear the cross and we do this one in unison.

So there isn't a, my turn, your turn.

This one goes like this, one, two, three, four.

And our arm goes up to show we've finished.

Let's have one more go, we'll do it together now.

One, two, three, four.

Right.

Let's see if we can go back to our Samba rhythms and put the breaks in as well.

Choose one rhythm from our Samba rhythms that we've already learned and stick with it all the way to the end.

If you want to have a go at more than one, you can rewind the video.

Then we'll have a go at putting your breaks in.

One, two, three, four.

Yay, well done! Now we're going to do the performance again, but this time where you hear the whistles for one and two, I don't want you to do the response that we learned.

I want you to fill it in with the one that you just composed, okay? So fit one and two.

Put your rhythm in that you composed.

The ending, the cross, will stay the same.

Let's have another go.

One, two, three, four.

Well done, we've made it to the end of this unit.

In today's lesson, we have learnt to perform syncopated rhythms, recap songs from this unit, compose a Samba break and we've then performed a Samba piece with a break that we composed ourselves.

Well done for getting to the end of this unit.

You now have a quiz to complete.

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