Marching Feet

British English CC

I Had a Little Sailboat

Charlie over the Ocean - Claves only

Charlie Over the Ocean

Do As I Do

A Sailor Went to Sea - Warm-Up

H.E.L.L.O

Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic

Playing the pulse to keep in time

Music

Singing to achieve a task

Singing to help us work in time together

Call and response singing in songs of the sea

Rhythm and beat

Creating an ostinato to help us keep in time

In this unit, pupils explore how songs are used for work, productivity, and collaboration. It focuses on working songs at sea. Pupils learn that call and response is a structure found in many sea-working songs and that a strong sense of pulse is essential for completing tasks together.

Singing together: how singing helps us work together

{{}} are working songs that helped sailors to work together in time. They have a steady pulse that is often sounded as a strong beat. This helped sailors to move together in time with the pulse.

When we march in time to the music, we are marching to the {{}}.

When the music has a fast tempo, it will also have a fast ...

True or false? Pulse and beat are not the same thing.

When the beat is fast, the music has a fast ...

__________ is a special kind of call and response where the response is exactly the same as the call.

The claves are a type of __________ instrument.

Playing the pulse to keep in time

Lesson outcome