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Hello, everyone, It's me again, Mrs. Steele, and I'm back with another music lesson for us to explore together today.

In today's lesson, we'll be learning all about call and response songs of the sea.

But before we begin, there's a listening example today that doesn't feature in today's video.

So if you haven't done so already, please take a moment to find that listening example now.

There's a teacher guidance slide at the beginning of the slide deck to help you with this.

Press pause if you need to go and locate that now.

Okay, you're ready.

Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to sing your part in a call and response song and know that this is a structure used in sea shanties and other songs of the sea.

Here are the keywords that we'll need in our learning today.

First up, you guessed it, it's sea shanty, a traditional folk song sung by sailors to help them work together in time.

Next up, we have call and response, a question and answer musical structure.

Structure, the way music is organized.

And finally, echo, an exact copy of a musical phrase.

We know how important it is to warm up our whole bodies before every music lesson.

We want to make sure that our minds, bodies, and voices are focused, alert, full of energy, and ready to learn.

So to do that, join in with the warmups in this video.

Here it comes.

<v ->This is an echo song.

</v> You're going to copy me.

♪ Standing tall ♪ ♪ Standing tall ♪ ♪ Try not to fall ♪ ♪ Try not to fall ♪ ♪ Mouth open wide ♪ ♪ Mouth open wide ♪ ♪ Hands by your side ♪ ♪ Hands by your side ♪ ♪ Feet apart ♪ ♪ Feet apart ♪ ♪ Sing from your heart ♪ ♪ Sing from your heart ♪ ♪ Singing strong ♪ ♪ Singing strong ♪ ♪ 'Til the end of the song ♪ ♪ 'Til the end of the song.

♪ <v ->These songs will help us to warm up further.

</v> Copy the leader each time by watching and listening very carefully.

First up, copy the leader in "Hey, Hey, Look at Me." ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am marching, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am marching, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am waving, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am waving, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am clapping, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am clapping, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am swaying, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am swaying, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am ready, can't you see ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, look at me ♪ ♪ I am ready, can't you see ♪ <v ->And now join in with the echoes in "Warming up my Voice."</v> Here it comes.

(gentle piano music) ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Sing this like a cat ♪ ♪ Sing this like a cat ♪ ♪ Meow meow, just like that ♪ ♪ Meow, meow, just like that ♪ ♪ Me ♪ ♪ Ow ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Sing this like a mouse ♪ ♪ Sing this like a mouse ♪ ♪ Eek, eek, run the house ♪ ♪ Eek, eek, in my house ♪ ♪ Ee ♪ ♪ Eek ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Sing this like a cow ♪ ♪ Sing this like a cow ♪ ♪ Moo moo, I know how ♪ ♪ Moo moo, I know how ♪ ♪ Moo ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ High notes all in a row ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Low notes down below ♪ ♪ Sing this like a bee ♪ ♪ Sing this like a bee ♪ ♪ Buzz buzz, just like me ♪ ♪ Buzz buzz, just like me ♪ ♪ Bu ♪ ♪ Zz ♪ (gentle piano music continues) <v ->And finally, can you echo the leader</v> in "Boom Chicka Boom?" Here it is.

(gentle music) ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom ♪ ♪ Ah ha ♪ ♪ Eh he ♪ ♪ One more time in a squeaky voice ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom ♪ ♪ Ah ha ♪ ♪ Eh he ♪ ♪ One more time, low and strong ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom ♪ ♪ Ah ha ♪ ♪ Eh he ♪ ♪ One more time, just a whisper ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka boom ♪ ♪ I said a boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom ♪ ♪ Ah ha ♪ ♪ Eh he ♪ (gentle music continues) <v ->Let's check that you're ready to make music together.

</v> Check that you are watching and listening carefully, that your voice feels warm, and that you feel focused.

Great.

You're ready to get started.

Let's begin by learning about call and response structure in sea shanties.

We know that sea shanties are working songs that were sung by sailors on onboard ships.

Many of these sea shanties have a call and response structure.

This structure helps sailors to work together in time.

Let's look at an example of this.

This sea shanty is called "Blow the Man Down." It has a call and response structure.

A leader sings the call on their own, like this.

♪ I'll sing you a song of the fish of the sea ♪ <v ->And then everybody sings the response together, like this.

</v> ♪ Way hey, blow the man down ♪ <v ->Let's listen to the sea shanty "Blow the Man Down."</v> It's been sung by sailors from all over the world, but like many folk songs, exactly where it came from is not clear.

We think it might have been inspired by an African-American folk song.

As you listen to this sea shanty, tap your head when you hear the leader sing the call and tap your shoulders when you hear the sailors sing the response.

♪ Way hey, blow the man down.

♪ = Press pause to find your listening example.

Can you hear the leader sing the call and all of the sailors sing the response? Here's another sea shanty with a call and response structure.

This one's called "Sam's Gone Away." Let's listen.

(gentle piano music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a sailor aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a boatswain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a lookout, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a captain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ <v ->Listen again to "Sam's Gone Away,"</v> but this time, it's your turn to join in.

Listen carefully to the leader sing the call, then join in and sing the response each time you hear it.

♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ (gentle piano music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a sailor aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a boatswain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a lookout, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a captain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ <v ->A call and response structure like this helped sailors</v> and fisherfolk to work together in time.

Listening to the leader helped everyone to stay in time together to the strong beat, and singing in unison altogether helped them to feel united as a team, and it also helped to motivate them when their work was repetitive and difficult.

We're going to add some actions to "Sam's Gone Away" now.

The leader's call in this song is about some of the jobs on board a ship called the Mary Rose.

Here are the jobs: sailor; boatswain; lookout; and captain.

Your challenge is to think of an action for each job.

I wonder which of these jobs you'd like to try.

Press pause now to decide on your action for each of these four jobs.

Now that you've decided, let's perform "Sam's Gone Away" using a call and response structure.

There are some things you need to do to get ready first, so let's sort those out.

The first job is to choose a leader.

They're going to sing the call.

As they're singing, you are going to listen carefully and do your action for each job they're singing about.

Then everyone else sings the response in unison.

♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ <v ->Choose somebody or a little team to add a drumbeat.

</v> This will help everyone to sing together in time.

Press pause now to organize everybody's jobs, then meet me back here and I'll play the music.

Are you ready to go? Great.

Here comes the music to "Sam's Gone Away." (gentle piano music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a sailor aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a boatswain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh, I wish I were a lookout, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Oh, I wish I were a captain, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ ♪ Pretty work, brave boys ♪ ♪ Pretty work, I say ♪ ♪ Sam's gone away, aboard the Mary Rose ♪ <v ->Hello again.

Was your performance successful?</v> How do you know? Could you listen to the leader sing the call and join in with the actions for each job you could hear? Great listening if you did.

Did you know when it was your turn to sing, and could you sing the response in unison? Brilliant stuff.

And could you listen to the drumbeat so that you could sing the response in time? Fantastic music making, everyone.

Well done.

Now let's move on to learning about working together in songs of the sea.

We can use the song "Charlie Over the Ocean" to practice listening to a call and singing a response, because "Charlie Over the Ocean" also has a call and response structure.

It's a special type of call and response song called an echo song.

An echo is an exact copy of a musical phrase.

So in an echo song, the call and the response are exactly the same.

Listen to the call in "Charlie Over the Ocean" and join in with the echo response.

Here comes the music.

♪ Charlie over the ocean ♪ ♪ Charlie over the ocean ♪ ♪ Charlie over the sea ♪ ♪ Charlie over the sea ♪ ♪ Charlie caught a big fish ♪ ♪ Charlie caught a big fish ♪ ♪ Can't catch me ♪ ♪ Can't catch me ♪ <v ->It's time for a check-in with our learning so far.

</v> Can you use the word bank to fill in the blanks of these sentences here? Press pause to read the sentences together and choose from the word bank to fill them in.

I'll meet you back here with the answers.

Hello, everyone.

What did you decide? Here come the answers so you can check if you were right.

"Call and response structure is like a musical question and answer.

First, the leader sings the call, which is followed by a response that is different.

An echo song is a special type of call and response song.

In an echo song, the call and response are the same." Well done if you've got all of those answers right.

Great understanding about call and response structure.

Let's listen to another echo song.

This one's called "Tongo." This folk song most likely comes from the Solomon Islands.

The word "tongo" means mangrove.

As you listen, can you hear the call and response structure? Here's the music.

(gentle music) (singers singing in foreign language) (singers continue singing in foreign language) <v ->"Tongo" is another example of a working song.

</v> It's a canoe song.

It may have been sung by fisherfolk to help them paddle together in time in their canoes.

Let's listen again.

This time, join in softly with the responses.

Remember that this is an echo song, so your responses should be exactly the same as the leaders call.

(gentle music) (singers singing in foreign language) (singers continue singing in foreign language) <v ->We're going to work in call and response pairs</v> to sing "Tongo." To do this, sit or stand one behind the other in your pair, just like you're in a canoe, then the person in the front of your canoe will sing the call and the person behind then sings the echo response, and you're going to paddle your canoe, feeling the steady pulse when it's your turn to sing.

This challenge will take a bit of practice to get right, and you're going to want to do this at your own pace where you are.

So in a moment, you can press pause and organize yourselves into call and response pairs and get ready to paddle your canoes.

Remember to sing the song twice so that you can swap places in your canoe.

There's an audio button to help you if you'd like to do this with the music.

Have fun, good luck paddling.

Were you and your partner successful at working together in your canoe? I wonder how you know.

Here are some of our Oak friends ideas.

Andeep says, "At the front of our canoe, I sang the call." That's right, Andeep.

Well done.

He listened to the music to know when it was his turn to sing.

Well done if you did that too.

And Sofia says, "At the back of our canoe, I listened carefully to my partner first, then I sang my response as an echo." Well done, everyone.

Great work in your call and response pairs.

We've come to the end of our music lesson today, so let's take a moment to think about everything we've been learning.

We know that it's important to warm up before every music lesson to make sure that our minds, bodies, and voices are ready.

And we know that many sea shanties have a call and response structure that features a call, and then a response sung in unison, like "Sam's Gone Away." And we know that working songs of the sea are sung on different types of boats.

For example, "Tongo" is a canoe song.

And we know that an echo song is a special type of call and response song, where the call and response are exactly the same, just like "Charlie Over the Ocean" and "Tongo." Great musical learning today, everyone.

I can't wait to see you again soon for another music lesson.

Bye-bye.