the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

Singing and identifying echo and call and response

Music

My singing voice

Singing echo songs

Singing call and response songs

Call and response singing games

Feeling the pulse and playing the beat

This unit helps pupils to discover the difference between their speaking, or chanting, and singing voice. Through a diverse range of echo and call and response songs pupils will begin to pitch match songs that use an age appropriate small range of notes.

Start with singing: finding my singing voice

What do we call the regular, steady heartbeat of the music?

In Have You Brought Your Singing Voice? we respond to the question by answering "Yes I have, yes I have." What type of song is this?

The leader sings "Yoo Hoo" and the echo "Yoo Hoo" is exactly the same.

The secret voice sings something different to the leader.

The secret voice sings something similar to the leader.

In the Penguin Song we use both our speaking voices and singing voices. Match the lyrics to the correct type of voice.

our whole body, face, breathing and voice

When we warm up for singing, which of the following warm-ups should we do?

when we all sing the same thing at the same time

In Lemon, Lime we use our speaking voice in time to the pulse. Does this make it a chant or a song?

In A Keelie Makolay the leader sings "A Keelie Makolay, mo paco meeno sway." We answer with, "Yeah, yeah, mo paco meeno sway." Is this an echo or call and response song?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Singing and identifying echo and call and response

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.