Lesson video

Hi everybody, my name is Mr. Palekar and welcome back to music.

This is lesson four and in today's lesson, we are going to recap our song, Down in the Valley, which has three beats in a bar.

We are going to explore music that has six beats in a bar, and we are going to clap to the pulse of different pieces of music that has six beats in a bar.

Finally, we are going to learn a brand new piece which uses six beats in a bar.

Now for this lesson, you will need some headphones.

If you don't have any headphones, don't worry.

Just make sure that you are somewhere quiet where you can concentrate and where you can, you won't be disturbed.

You'll need a pencil and some paper, if you would like to take any notes, and you will need your hands, your bodies and your voices.

Let's start with, Down in the Valley.

So carrying on from last lesson, Down in the Valley sounds like this.

One, two, three, one, two, three, ♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang you head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Now this piece has three beats in every single bar.

Let's see if we can remind ourselves of how it goes.

My turn and then your turn, One, two, three, one, two, three ♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ Try it, here we go ♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ One more time ♪ Down ♪ One, two, three, one, two, three ♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ Good.

And the next part goes like this, ♪ Hang your head over ♪ Try that with me, One, two, three ♪ Hang your head over ♪ One more time One, two, three ♪ Hang you head over ♪ Listen.

My turn, ♪ Hear the wind, Hear the wind, Hear the wind ♪ Your turn, ♪ Hear the wind ♪ Good.

My turn.

We're going to add in blow in a second.

My turn.

All the way from the top.

One, two, three, one, two, three ♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Quick question.

Which way does the pitch? Which way does the sound go? ♪ Hear the wind blow ♪ Does it go higher or lower? ♪ Hear the wind blow ♪ It goes lower.

♪ Hear the wind blow ♪ Try it.

One, two, three ♪ Hear the wind blow ♪ Good.

And see if you can try those first couple of lines.

One, two, three, one, two, three one, two, three.

♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ The next few lines have the same melody, the same tune.

Have a listen.

♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang you head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Try that with me.

♪ Hear the wind blow dear ♪ One, two, three, one, two, three.

Off we go.

♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Let's see if we can sing it all the way from the top.

Here we go.

♪ Down in the, Down ♪ One, two, three.

Off we go.

♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang you head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Well done.

Now just like we said last lesson, We have three beats in every single bar.

Now we know that we are going to clap on that downbeat.

On that first beat every time, and on our beats two and three, we are going to click.

So, clap, click, click, clap, click, click One, two, three, one, two, three.

Let's read our clap, click, clicks on the screen right now.

One, two, three, one, two, three.

Off we go.

One, two, three, one, two, three One, two, three, one, two, three.

Stop.

Good.

One more time.

This time, make sure that you are reading every single clap and click on the screen.

One more time.

One, two, three, one, two, three.

Off we go.

Clap, click, click, clap, click, click Clap, click, click, clap, click, click.

Good.

And don't forget, we need to clap a little bit harder, because that first beat is our downbeat.

Okay, let's get rid of those three heartbeats above every bar.

We know that every single bar is going to have three beats, which means we can put the number three at the beginning of our music.

Okay.

Clap, click, click, clap, click, click Clap, click, click, clap, click, click Let's put that with our song.

Okay.

Let's go back to our lyrics, our words.

It should sound something like this.

One, two, three, one, two, three.

Off we go.

♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Let's see if we can do it together.

Let's take it a little bit slower.

Ready? Join in with me with the clap, click, clicks to begin with and then we'll come in with our voices in a little bit after.

Here we go.

One, two, three, one, two, three Carry on.

Ready? One, two, three, one, two, three.

Off we go.

♪ Down in the valley, Valley so low ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hear the wind blow dear, Hear the wind blow ♪ ♪ Hang your head over, Hear the wind blow ♪ Well done.

Pause the video now so that you can practise singing Down in the Valley Clap and click the pulse.

And remember to clap harder on the very first beat, the downbeat of every bar.

If you would like to practise together with me, rewind 20 seconds and we can go through each of the steps.

When you're ready to continue, click the play button.

Time signatures, six beats in a bar.

Now we have had four beats.

We've had two beats.

We have had three beats.

We are going to be looking at six beats and above.

That's a lot of beats.

On the screen, you can see our six heartbeats, and we can often think about those six beats in two lots.

So we can have our one, two, three together, and our four, five, six together.

That means we have our clap on our down beat, our strongest beat, and we have a less strong, but still stronger than our weaker beats, on our four.

So it goes one, two, three, four, five, six.

It sounds a little bit like this.

That's adding those claps as well.

So instead of doing the downbeat on our clap we would instead, we're going to do our clap Sorry, a downbeat on our chest.

Okay? So we're going to go one, two, three Try it, and One, two, three.

Now our slightly weaker beat is going to be on our claps.

It's going to go, one, two, three, four, five, six.

Try it with me really slowly.

Here we go.

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

Good.

Now that sun with the letter, C in is our chest symbol.

There stars are our clicks and that clap, those hands are our clap, but you can see that behind it, there is a pink circle, and that pink circle tells us that it's still another type of stronger beat, not our first downbeat, but it indicates the, it tells us that it's the second part of that bar.

So we go one, two, three, four, five, six.

Let's try it together.

One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, and again One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, Good.

Let's read the two bars of six on the screen.

And here we go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, Great job.

Now let's try again this time, but we're going to take out our clicks.

We're not going to do the clicks.

We are going to do the clicks in our heads.

So it's going to go One, two, three, four, five, six, One two, three, four, five, six, Try it with me.

Off we go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, So those are the two ways that we can, we can clap and click and pat our six beats in a bar.

I'll leave it to you to decide which one's going to be easier for you.

I'm going to to challenge you to do the one, two, three, four, five, six with the clicks in between.

But if you want to concentrate on the pat, the downbeat, and the clap on beat number four, that's also absolutely fine.

Okay.

Let's see if we can put it into practise.

So we're going to to hear some music and we need to clap to the pulse.

See if you can find the pulse quicker than I can, and you can start clap, clicking, and patting to the pulse.

Remember our pat now is our downbeat.

So one, here we go.

♪ And I don't want the world to see me ♪ ♪ 'cause I don't think that they'd understand ♪ ♪ When everything's made to be broken ♪ ♪ I just want you ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, four, five, six One, two, three, four, five, six, One, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, Well done.

Okay.

Maybe that was a bit too simple.

Okay.

Let's see if we can make it a little bit more challenging.

♪ I've heard there was a secret chord ♪ ♪ That David played and it pleased the Lord ♪ ♪ But you don't really care for music, do you? ♪ You've got it.

♪ It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth ♪ ♪ The minor fall, the major lift ♪ ♪ The baffled king composing Hallelujah ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six.

Okay, good job.

Okay.

Let's add in our bonus track.

Remember, you don't have to do the clicks in between, but you must count it out loud.

So one, two, three, four, five, six.

Let's see if you can find it quicker than I can.

♪ There is a house in New Orleans ♪ ♪ They call ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, ♪ The rising sun ♪ One, one One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, Stop.

Good job.

Pause the video now so that you can practise counting the beats in every bar with the music.

Remember to pat harder on every downbeat.

That's every first beat of the bar.

Rewind the video 20 seconds so that we can practise together.

And when you're ready to continue, click the play button.

Oliver Twist.

Now Oliver Twist is a brilliant chant, and it sounds a little bit like this, ♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go ♪ Two, three, and One more time.

One, two, three, four, five, six Here I go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Let's break it down.

Here we go.

My turn and then your turn.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ Let's stick those two together.

My turn first.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch you knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Let's stick those last two lines together.

♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Good job.

Let's see if we can say it all the way through.

We'll chant it from the top.

Here we go.

One and a two and a one, two, three, four, five, six, ♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use in trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your hair ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Let's try that one more time.

Here we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Good.

One more time.

Here we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ So let's add those small bits in.

Okay.

So when we go to touch your knees, we are going to tap out knees.

I can't reach my knees because I'm going to use the table for now.

I'm going to say, touch your knees, your turn.

Good.

When it says, touch your toes.

We're going to tap our toes, the same rhythm ♪ Touch our toes, Touch our toes ♪ Ready? One, two, and off you go.

♪ Touch your toes ♪ Very nice.

Okay.

Finally, we're going to clap our hands.

So, ♪ Clap your hands ♪ Ready, your turn.

♪ And away you go.

♪ I'm going to use my fingers to show that I'm walking ♪ And away you go.

♪ Ready? Let's do it from ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands.

♪ Ready? One, two, three, One, two, three, four, five, six, One, two, three, four, five, six.

♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ One more time.

Ready? Off we go.

♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Very good.

And say it from the top.

Ready? One, two, three, four, five, six off we go.

♪ Oliver twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying, ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap you hands and away you go.

♪ Very good.

Well done.

For our next part, we need to remember that we have six beats in a bar and there's a very important way that we've been practising to make sure that we have a strong downbeat and on our fourth beat, we clap.

Let's put those in.

So we have, Let's try it.

One, two, three, four, five, six, Ready and off we go.

And again.

One, two, three, four, five, six, Good.

We know that we don't need six heartbeats above every bar, because if there are six beats in every bar, we just need a number six at the very beginning of our music.

Let's go back to our lyrics.

Let's go back through our words.

So the first two lines, we are going to do our, Pat, click, clicks ♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ Try that with me.

Off we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ Now remember, you can do the pat and the clap with a one, two, three, four, five, six.

Let's see if we can do it in just that way.

if you want to.

If you've got those clicks as well, that is brilliant.

If you haven't done right, we can just do the pat and the clap.

Here we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ The next part.

♪ Touch you knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Let's see if we can put it all together now.

Ready? Let's see if we can start with tapping, patting, and clicking and clapping the pulse One, two, three, four, five, six.

Join in when you can.

If you can, with the clicks, put it in.

If you can't, don't worry.

Just get a pat and then a clap.

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

Off we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Let's try it again.

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

Off we go.

♪ Oliver Twist, you can't do this, ♪ ♪ So what's the use of trying? ♪ ♪ Touch your knees, touch your toes, ♪ ♪ Clap your hands and away you go.

♪ Well done.

Pause the video now so that you can practise chanting Oliver Twist all the way through.

Pat, click, and clap to the pulse.

And remember to pat harder on the first beat, the downbeat of every bar.

If you would like to practise together, rewind 20 seconds.

And when you're ready to continue, click the play button.

Great job in our lesson today.

Now from today's lesson, you now can perform Down in the Valley, which has three beats in the bar.

You can pat, click, and clap to music, which has six beats in a bar.

You can chant to music, which has six beats in a bar, which means you can perform Oliver twist with the actions, which has six beats in a bar.

If you would like to share any of your work from this lesson or any music lesson, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, and tag @OakNational and #LearnwithOak again, a huge well done for all of your work today.

And I look forward to seeing you in our next lesson.