Lesson video

Hello, everyone, it's time for another music lesson with me, Miss Kilpatrick.

Let's get on.

In this lesson, you will need paper and pencil, or the worksheet provided, your voice or any percussion instruments you have in the house, and some headphones.

If you don't have headphones, just find a quiet place you can work undisturbed.

Turn off any apps and conversations you have running.

Pause the video now, if you need to get any of those things.

We'll start our lesson today with a warmup.

Then we're going to read some graphical notation.

We've got more polyrhythms to learn, and a performance at the end.

For our warmup today, we're going to be using these rhythm cups.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, it's the pulse, one, two, three, say it with me, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, and stop.

Each cup is worth one beat.

Let's try it again, off we go now.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, and stop.

What if I replace cup number three, beat number three, with two half size cups.

What happens then? One, two, three, and four.

Now my beat three have two sounds.

Let's try it.

Off we go now.

One, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and four, one, two, three, and stop.

It might be helpful for you to tap along with the cups as we go.

Let's see the next one.

What's happened here? Can you say it? Oh, I had lots of rounds as there, it goes.

One, two, and three, four, with me, one, two, and three, four, one, two, and three, four, one, two, and three, four, one, two and three, four, one, two, and three, four, one, two, and three and stop.

What about the next one? Have a go.

Let's have a look.

Were you right? Let's do it together, off we go now.

One, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, stop.

What's happened here? My beat two, my cup two has been replaced, but I've only got one of the half size cups in the and position.

My number two cup has disappeared completely, that's now a rest.

So what's it going to be now? Have a go.

What do you think? Let's have a go at saying this rhythm, off we go now.

One, and three, four, one, and three, four, one, and three, four, one, and three, four, one, and three, four, one, and three, four, one, and three, stop.

Well done.

Have a go at this one.

I've got cup one, cup two, cup three, cup four is now a silence, a rest for and.

Let's have a go.

Off we go now.

One, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, stop.

Now, that one might be easier to take a little breath where the four should be so we know we're getting it in the right place.

Now I've got a job for you.

There are four cup rhythms here.

I would like you to pause the video.

If you have access to the worksheet and the images are there for you to add the beats to our cups, if not, and you've paused the video now, you can use your paper and pencil to write down the four cup rhythms and add the beats in.

Have a go.

Let's check your answers.

Number one, one, two, and four.

Did you get it? Well done if you did.

Number two, one, two and four and one, two and four, and.

That's a nice one, that one.

Number three, one, two, and three, and one, two and three, and one, two and three, and another nice one.

The last one, really tricky.

Did you get it? Let's see how it sounds, off we go now.

And two and four and two, and four and two and four, and two and four.

Well done of you got all four of those correct.

Now we have our djembe polyrhythm section, our West African drumming section.

So we need to learn all five parts.

The first part is just the pause.

I've underlined one, three, five, and seven, because they're the numbers we're going to say out loud as our pulse, let's do it four times, off we go now.

One, three, five, seven, one, three, five, seven, one, three, five, seven, one, three, five, seven.

Very good.

Let's try part two.

Part two, which is going to be our cowbell rhythm eventually goes like this.

We love fish and chips.

We love fish and chips.

Let's try it together, off we go now.

We love fish and chips.

We love fish and chips.

We love fish and chips.

We love fish and chips.

Very good, let's try part three.

Part three is our large base djembe.

And we've got rice and peas for this.

So let's try it straight away together four times through.

Off we go now, rice and peas and rice and peas and rice and peas and rice and peas, and, excellent.

Rhythm number four, have a really good look at rhythm number four.

This one is the trickiest one.

It's two lines long, and we don't have anything to play on the first beat.

We have to think one, three mayonnaise, six, seven mayonnaise and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup.

Let's try it up to speed up.

Off we go now, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise and ketchup, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, and ketchup.

Well done.

If you need to go through that a few times to get it right, feel free.

In your head you can think the one and the three as two sounds.

So you need to hear those two bits from the shack array or two pulse beats before you say your first mayonnaise.

Let's try the final rhythm number five.

And rhythm five is our small djembe, and it goes like this, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, join in, drink of the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side, drink on the side.

Fantastic, feel free to go back and learn those patterns really well as many times as you need to, to be really confident.

Off we go now.

Now we're going to move on to the instruments.

If you don't have any percussion instruments at home, you can use homemade ones that we've done before, or you can carry on with the vocal ostinato, it doesn't matter at all, but here are the instruments we're going to be using.

So we've got our shaker for our pulse.

We've got a cowbell for we love fish and chips, our large base djembe for our rice and peas, middle-sized djembe for the mayonnaise and ketchup, and a small djembe for drink on the side.

So, we're going to have a go altogether, right now.

One, two, three, four.

That was some really great playing along, everyone.

So now we've got our two way sum, and we've got our djembe polyrhythms. And we're going to put in all of that together with some extra things in our next lesson.

So now all that's left for me to say is goodbye.

If you'd like to share some of your work with me, ask your parent or carer to help you put it onto Twitter @OakNational, #LearnwithOak.

And then I can have a look at some of your djembe performances, and I'd really love to see it.

Well, I'll see you in the next lesson.

Bye, everyone.