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Hello, everyone.

It's me again, Mrs. Steele, and I've got another music lesson for us to explore together today.

Today's lesson is called Creating an ostinato to help us to keep in time.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to create a rhythmic ostinato to help us to keep in time together.

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

There are quite a few.

Pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.

Beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock.

Rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.

Ostinato: a repeated musical pattern.

And finally, texture: the combination of different layers of sounds.

We know how important it is to warm up at the start of every music lesson.

Warming up using movement helps us to feel the pulse so that we can make music together, in time.

It's lots of fun too.

Join in with "Baby, One, Two, Three." Here comes the video.

(bright piano music) ♪ Head and shoulders, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Head and shoulders, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Head and shoulders, head and shoulders, ♪ ♪ Head and shoulders, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, shoulders, elbows ♪ ♪ Shoulders, elbows, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, elbows, knees, ♪ ♪ Elbows, knees, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, baby, one, two, three ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, knees and toes ♪ ♪ Knees and toes, baby, one, two, three ♪ <v ->These warmup chants and songs will help us to feel focused</v> and to listen carefully so that we are ready to make music together.

Here comes the video for "Do as I Do." Join in.

<v ->Ready, steady, off we go.

</v> ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ (all clapping in time) ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ (knees slapping in time) ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ (feet marching) ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ (hands and knees clap and pat) ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I do and follow me ♪ <v ->And now sing the echoes in the song "Warming up my Voice."</v> Here's the music.

(gentle piano music) ♪ I am warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I am 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-ee 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, round the house ♪ ♪ Eek, eek, in my house ♪ ♪ Ee-Ee ♪ ♪ 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-oo ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I'm warming up my voice ♪ ♪ I am 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-uzz ♪ ♪ Zzzz ♪ And finally join in with "Music Time." Here comes the video.

This is an echo chant.

Can you copy my voice and my actions? Ready, steady, off we go.

♪ Nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Music time is so much fun ♪ ♪ Music time is so much fun ♪ ♪ Pat your head ♪ ♪ Stamp your feet ♪ ♪ Pat your head ♪ ♪ Stamp your feet ♪ (feet thudding) ♪ Moving to your heartbeat ♪ ♪ Moving to your heart beat ♪ (chests patting) <v ->Are you ready to make music together?</v> Does your body feel relaxed? Are you listening? And does your voice feel warm? Fantastic.

You are ready to go.

Let's begin by playing an ostinato to a strong beat.

We can sing sea shanties and other working songs together.

We've been doing a lot of that in this unit.

These songs have a steady pulse that's often sounded as a strong beat, and we know that playing the steady pulse as a strong beat can help us to play and sing in time together.

We can also play an ostinato to help us sing and play in time.

Remember that an ostinato is a repeated musical pattern.

We can already play an ostinato for "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" This ostinato sounds like this: What shall we do? (hands clapping rhythm) What shall we do? What shall we do? Listen to "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" and join in with our ostinato.

Tap your knees and whisper the lyrics in time.

Remember to feel the pulse and listen to the steady beat.

Here comes the music.

Join in and tap the ostinato.

(piano plays jaunty sea shanty) ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ <v ->Here's a different ostinato for</v> "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" Alex has written down the rhythm of this ostinato like this, "Hoo-ray, up she rises." (hands clapping ostinato) Join in with this ostinato by tapping your shoulders and whispering the lyrics in time.

"Hoo-ray up she rises." (shoulder tapping) Here's the music.

Join in with this ostinato.

(piano plays jaunty sea shanty) ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ (sicks clacking) ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ <v ->Aisha knows another ostinato to play in</v> "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" She's written down the rhythm of her ostinato too.

It sounds like this.

"Earl-eye in the morning." (hands clapping) Join in with this ostinato by tapping two fingers on the palm of one hand and whispering the lyrics in time, like this.

"Earlye in the morning." (fingers tapping) Earlye in the morning." Here comes the music.

Join in with Aisha's ostinato.

(piano plays jaunty sea shanty) ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ (claves clacking) ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ <v ->Now we know three different ostinati to help us play</v> and sing in time together in our song, "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" We already know ostinato 1, "What-shall-we-do?" And now we know ostinato 2, "Hoo-ray up-she-ri-ses." (hands clapping) And ostinato 3, "Earl-eye in the mor-ning." Each ostinato is a layer of sound like the layers in this delicious cake here.

We can combine these layers of sound and play them at the same time.

Combining layers of sound is called texture.

It's time for a check-in with our learning so far.

True or false? Combining layers of sound is called ostinato.

Show me a thumb up if you think that's true or a thumb down if you think that's false.

Here comes the answer.

That's false.

Well done if you knew that.

Texture is combining layers of sound and ostinato is a repeated musical pattern.

We can use an ostinato to create one layer of sound.

It's time for another big musical challenge now.

Let's split into two teams to create texture by playing ostinato 2 and ostinato 3 at the same time in "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" Team A, you are going to play ostinato 2 on claves and Team B are going to play ostinato 3 on the drums. Whisper the lyrics and listen to the strong drumbeat to help you to play your ostinato in time.

Remember to play your instruments softly so you can have open ears and hear how everything fits together.

Let's take a look at the slide that you might need to complete this challenge.

Here it is.

Team A are going to play this ostinato on claves.

Hoo-ray up-she-rises.

(hands clapping) And Team B are going to play this ostinato on their drums. "Earl-eye in-the-morn-ing." (hands clapping) Remember to whisper those words and play your instruments softly so you can hear how everything fits together as you play.

This challenge may take a lot of practice.

Playing two ostinati at the same time is quite tricky.

Press pause now to organize yourselves into your two teams, A and B.

And meet me back here for the music.

Are you ready, Team A and Team B? Here comes, "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" Play your ostinato.

How did you get on? Were your team successful? I wonder how you know.

Here are two of our Oak teams. This is how they got on.

The first team says, "We whispered the lyrics as we tapped the rhythm of our ostinato." Well done if you did that in your team too.

And our second Oak team says, "We listened to the strong drumbeat to help us to play in time." That's a great strategy to be successful too.

Now let's move on to creating a rhythmic ostinato.

We know that the sea shanty, "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" has a steady pulse that's sounded as a strong beat.

In this song, we can feel the pulse and sound the beat by counting one, two, three, four.

Practice sounding the beat in "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? Feel the pulse and tap your knees.

And as you tap, whisper, "One, two, three, four." Here comes the music.

(piano plays jaunty sea shanty) ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ (drum thudding) ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ What shall we do with the drunken sailor ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Hooray and up she rises ♪ ♪ Earlye in the morning ♪ Jun has created his own ostinato to add to "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" It sounds like this: Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

(hands clapping) Sea shan-ty sea, shh Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

And Jun's gone one step further and notated his ostinato.

He's written it down like this.

Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

(hands clapping) Each rhythm Jun has chosen fits neatly into a beat.

You can see the numbers of the beats, 1, 2, 3, 4 along the top there.

Jun says, "We can read my ostinato from left to right.

We can sound the beat in this song by counting 'One, two, three, four'." And you did that just then.

"Each box in the grid is one beat.

We can chant the rhythm of my ostinato over the beat." Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

(hands clapping) Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

Now it's your turn to try playing Jun's ostinato.

There are two ways we can whisper the rhythm to help us keep in time.

The first one we already know.

It sounds like this.

Sea shan-ty sea, shh.

The second way is like this.

Ta, ta-di ta, shh.

Choose one of these ways and practice clapping the rhythm as you whisper.

Sea shan-ty sea, shh, or, ta, ta-di ta, shh.

Press pause to practice that now.

Sofia is also a composer and she's composed a different ostinato.

It sounds like this.

Shan-ty shan-ty sea shan-ty.

(hands clapping) Shan-ty shan-ty sea shan-ty.

Sofia has notated her ostinato too, like this.

Shan-ty, shan-ty, sea shan-ty.

Just like Jen's ostinato, each rhythm Sofia has chosen fits neatly into a beat.

And you can see the numbers of the beats, 1, 2, 3, 4 along the top.

Try playing Sofia's ostinato now.

Choose which way you'd like to chant the rhythm and tap it as you whisper.

Press pause to try that where you are.

It's your turn to be a composer now and create your own ostinato for "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" To do that, complete the grid using any combination of the choices below.

You can choose from: ta, or sea, ta-di, or shan-ty (hands clapping) or shh, which is which is always shh.

As long as you fill up each box of the grid with one of those choices, you'll create a brilliant ostinato.

Remember to practice chanting and clapping it.

Press pause now and you could work in a group or all together to create your own ostinato.

I'll see you soon.

Hello, composers.

Now we're going to split into teams to perform.

Let's combine three layers of sound to create texture.

Team A are going to whisper and clap the ostinato you've just composed.

Team B is going to sing and Team C is going to play a steady drumbeat, an important job because it will help keep everybody in time together.

Press pause now to organize yourselves into your three teams and meet me back here for the music.

Hi, everyone, here comes the music for "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?" Let's combine three layers of sound.

What a great performance.

Was it successful? I wonder how you know.

Lucas says, "In Team A, I whispered the words to help me play the ostinato accurately." Well done if you did that too.

And Aisha says, "In Team B, I listened to the drumbeat to help me to sing in time." That's a fantastic idea too.

We've reached the end of our lesson together today, so let's take a moment to think about everything we know.

We know that an ostinato is a repeated musical pattern and we know that playing an ostinato to a strong beat can help us to sing and play in time together, just as you just did.

We know that we can create our own rhythmic ostinato to help us to keep in time together and we can combine different layers of sound to create texture, for example, we can play different ostinati at the same time.

And you did that today too.

What great musical learning, everyone.

I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon for another music lesson.

Bye-bye.

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