Starter quiz
- Warming up before singing helps...
- protect our voice from getting hurt. ✓
- us to hear new instruments.
- get us to sing as loud as possible.
- get our minds, bodies and voices ready for singing . ✓
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- The regular, steady heartbeat of the music is called the ______.
- 'pulse' ✓
- Match the musical term to the definition.
- sing⇔create high and low sounds with our voice ✓
- chant⇔speaking in time to a pulse ✓
- A percussion instrument is played by...
- striking, blowing or scraping.
- striking, shaking or scraping. ✓
- shaking, scraping or strumming.
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Exit quiz
- True or false. When we sing the response in a call and response song, we sing an exact copy of the call.
- 'false' ✓
- When we play on the beat, we are...
- changing from playing quietly to playing loudly.
- playing the patterns of sound, like the syllables of the words.
- playing the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock. ✓
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Why do we practise our sense of pulse by playing on the beat?- So we can play high and low notes.
- So we can sing and play together at the right time. ✓
- So we can play quietly and loudly.
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When we think about the way the music is organised, we are thinking about the musical ______.- 'structure' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- We can use movements, body percussion and instruments to help us feel the pulse and hear the beat.
- When we keep a steady beat we are able to sing our responses and join in with musical games at the correct moment.
- We understand the structure of our songs and know when it is our turn to sing and play.
Common misconception
Beat and rhythm are interchangeable terminology.
The beat is the consistent audible sound of the underlying pulse. Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences which can be a combination of sounds of any duration.
Keywords
Beat - the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
Pulse - the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
Structure - the way the music is organised
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