Lesson video

Hi everyone I'm Ms. Boyd, and I'll be your music teacher today.

In today's lesson, we will learn and practise how to hear high pitch sounds, middle pitch sounds, and low pitch sounds, and you'll definitely be able to describe for me what pitch is.

♪ Of we go ♪ ♪ Hello hello ♪ ♪ It's good to see you ♪ ♪ Hello hello ♪ ♪ It's good to see you ♪ ♪ I must say you have made my day ♪ ♪ Hello hello hello ♪ So what is pitch? Pitch is how high or how low a note is in a piece of music.

So if you hear a piece of music, and you think oh that's really high, the pitch is really high, you're right! Or if you hear a piece of music and you think, oh that's really low, it's because the pitch of the notes and the instruments are low.

For our first learning activity today, we're going to play, what can you hear? I'm going to play some notes on my instrument and I'd like you to listen up for high pitches and low pitches.

Have a listen to this!.

Was that a high or low pitch? Let's listen again.

That's right.

Pretty high pitched, isn't it? How about this one? That's really low, isn't it? So it's a low pitch sound.

For this activity, I would like you to give me a thumbs up if you think you can hear a high pitch sound or if you can hear a low pitch sound, give me a thumbs down.

Got it? Thumbs up for a high pitch sound, thumbs down for a low pitch sound.

Listening ears on? Great, let's go.

That was pretty low, wasn't it? Let's `try again.

You're right, that was really high, okay, let's get a bit faster.

Great job.

Okay, on to our second learning activity, we're going to play Do, Re, Mi.

All you need is your singing voice and your hands.

I'd like you to copy me.

♪ Do Do Do ♪ ♪ Re Re Re ♪ ♪ Mi Mi Mi ♪ ♪ Do Re Mi ♪ ♪ Mi Re Do ♪ How was that? Easy? Great.

These signs represent our high notes, our medium notes and our low notes.

So now for our game, I'd like you to copy me.

I'm going to make a pattern out of those notes and I want you to sing the correct pictures back to me.

Are you ready? Off we go.

♪ Do Do Do ♪ ♪ Do Re Do ♪ ♪ Do Re Mi Mi Mi ♪ ♪ Mi Re Re Re Mi Re ♪ how was that still too easy? Okay.

Let's make it a bit longer.

Are you ready? Copy me do re MI MI MI Do Re Mi Mi Mi Mi Re Mi Re Mi Re Do Do Do Do Re Mi Mi Mi Mi Re Mi Re Re Mi Re Do.

Me Re Do Fantastic.

You can really sing those different pitches.

Well done.

Okay.

So for our third learning activity today we're going to sing a song.

So all you need is your singing voice in this song.

We're going to explore our high voice and our low voice.

So copy me.

This is how the song goes.

Off we go.

This is how my singing voice sings in high pitch.

Did you get that? Let's have another go.

Off we go this is how my singing voice sings in high pitch.

fabulous.

Okay.

So for this game, we're going to sing that part together.

And then after that, when I go like this it's my turn to sing a solo, which means by myself and I'm going to sing anything I like in a high pitch sound.

And then I'm going to go like this and that invites you to have a go, to have a solo to sing by yourself and sing your own high pitch notes.

Are you ready? Okay.

Off we go this is how my singing voice sings in high pitch.

La La La La La La Laaaa excellent.

Let's try that again.

Off we go, this is how my singing voice sings in high pitch.

La La La La La Laaaa this is how a singing voice sings in high pitch La Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaa This is how a singing voice sings in high pitch.

La La La La Laaaa This is how a singing voice sings in high pitch.

La La La La Laaa excellent.

Well done.

Okay.

We're going to sing the same song now but this time we're going to use our low pitched voice.

Are you ready? Off we go, this is how my singing voice sings in low pitch.

La La La La La Laaa This is how my singing voice sings in low pitch La LaLa La La Laaa this is how my singing voice sings in low pitch.

La La La La La La Laaa.

This is how my singing voice sings in low pitch.

La La La La Laaa Excellent.

Well done.

Great work everyone.

That's the end of our lesson today and we've learnt so much.

We've looked at high pitched sounds, low pitch sounds, middle pitch sounds and I think you can describe what pitch is.

What is pitch? That's right.

It's how high or how low? The notes of a piece of music.

Huh? Great work.

Before we go, let's close with our goodbye song.

Are you ready? Off we go.

Goodbye, Goodbye, It's time to go now.

Goodbye, Goodbye, It's time to go now.

I must say you've made my day.

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye.

If you'd like to share some of the music we've made together today feel free to ask your parent or carer to share your work on social media.