Bakery shop game - video

British English CC

What treat did you buy? melody and call

Ensemble improvisations 

Warm-ups

Two, Four, Six, Eight

Do as I Do

Dipidu

Performing and improvising within an ABA structure

Music

In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

play our own part and not worry about what the rest of the group is doing.

listen to each other and keep a steady pulse.

When we improvise in an ensemble we need to ...

When we improvise, we can play anything we want so we don't need to think about it.

Before performing as an ensemble, it is important to {{}}.

have a B section which is different than the A section.

repeat the A section at the end of the piece.

have three sections of music which are all different.

When we play within an ABA musical structure we need to ...

the pattern of sounds that we play and sing

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

When we __________ we are creating new musical ideas in the moment.

Another way of describing ABA structure is as a musical {{}}.

Starter Quiz