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Hello again, everyone.

It's me, Mrs. Steele, and I'm back again with another music lesson for us.

Today, we're going to be learning all about playing the pulse to keep in time, and we're going to have so much fun together.

Here we go.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to play a strong beat to help us sing in time together.

Here are the keywords we'll need in our learning today, sea shanty, a traditional folk song sung by sailors to help them work together in time, pulse, the regular, steady heartbeat of the music, and beat, the playing or showing of the steady pulse like the ticking of a clock.

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

The movement in this chant will help us to feel the pulse and warm up our bodies and our voices.

Watch the video to see how it works.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ (hands smacking) ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ (feet thudding) ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ If I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ (hands smacking) ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ If I do it high or low ♪ ♪ if I do it fast or slow ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ ♪ Do as I'm doing, follow me ♪ <v ->Now it's your turn to try "Do As I'm Doing."</v> Choose an actions leader and copy their actions to the steady pulse.

Press pause to play it where you are.

Let's warm up further with these songs and chants.

They help us to use our bodies and our voices in lots of different ways.

First up, watch the video to learn how to play "A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea." Then press pause to try it where you are.

Here's the video.

♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ ♪ A sailor went to sea, sea, sea ♪ ♪ To see what he could see, see, see ♪ ♪ But all that he could see, see, see ♪ ♪ Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea ♪ ♪ A sailor went to chop, chop, chop ♪ ♪ To see what he could chop, chop, chop ♪ ♪ But all that he could chop, chop, chop ♪ ♪ Was the bottom of the deep blue chop, chop, chop ♪ ♪ A sailor went to knee, knee, knee ♪ ♪ To see what he could knee, knee, knee ♪ ♪ But all that he could knee, knee, knee ♪ ♪ Was the bottom of the deep blue knee, knee, knee ♪ ♪ A sailor went to sea, chop, knee ♪ ♪ To see what he could see, chop, knee ♪ ♪ But all that he could see, chop, knee ♪ ♪ Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, chop, knee ♪ <v ->Now join in with "H-E-L-L-O."</v> Here it comes.

Copy me.

♪ H-E-L-L-O ♪ (fingers tapping) ♪ This is how we say hello ♪ (fingers tapping) ♪ March your feet to the beat ♪ (feet thudding) ♪ Can you feel your heart beat ♪ (hand thudding) ♪ H-E-L-L-O ♪ (fingers tapping) ♪ This is how we say hello ♪ (fingers tapping) ♪ March your feet to the beat ♪ (feet thudding) ♪ Can you feel your heart beat ♪ (hand thudding) And finally, are you alive, alert, awake, and enthusiastic? Let's see.

<v ->Join in with me on this warmup.

</v> The tempo gets faster, so follow carefully.

♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake ♪ ♪ I'm awake, alert, alive ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake ♪ ♪ I'm awake, alert, alive ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake ♪ ♪ I'm awake, alert, alive ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake ♪ ♪ I'm awake, alert, alive ♪ ♪ I'm alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic ♪ <v ->Are you ready to make music together?</v> Check that you're watching closely, that you feel energized and ready, and that your voice feels warm.

Here we go.

Let's start by learning about moving in time to a strong beat.

We know all about sea shanties now.

We know that they're working songs to help sailors to work together in time and that sea shanties have a steady pulse that's often sounded as a strong beat.

This helped sailors to move and sing together in time with the pulse.

Sometimes when we feel the pulse, our bodies want to move or clap in time.

When we do this, we're sounding the pulse as a beat, and Jacob's reminding us that when we play the beat, we're playing or showing the steady pulse like the ticking of a clock.

Let's practice moving in time to the beat with the chant "Marching Feet." Watch this video to see how it goes.

(instrument clanking) ♪ Ready, steady, off you go ♪ ♪ Marching feet, marching feet ♪ ♪ Moving up and down the street ♪ ♪ Walking here, walking there ♪ ♪ On the beat, everywhere ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ Ready, steady, off you go ♪ ♪ Marching feet, marching feet ♪ ♪ Moving up and down the street ♪ ♪ Walking here, walking there ♪ ♪ On the beat everywhere ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ Ready, steady, off you go ♪ ♪ Marching feet, marching feet ♪ ♪ Moving up and down the street ♪ ♪ Walking here, walking there ♪ ♪ On the beat everywhere ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ Ready, steady, off you go ♪ ♪ Marching feet, marching feet ♪ ♪ Moving up and down the street ♪ ♪ Walking here, walking there ♪ ♪ On the beat everywhere ♪ <v ->Now it's your turn to give it a try.

</v> Feel the pulse and march to the beat as you chant.

Change direction when you say the word where.

Press pause to try that challenge where you are.

Let's play again.

This time, add a drumbeat.

Your teacher could do this, one person could do it, or a little team.

I wonder if adding a drum beat changes how easy or tricky it is to move together in time.

Press pause to try "Marching Feet" again, this time with a drumbeat.

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

Who do you think will be successful this time in chanting and marching in time to a strong beat? Will it be Izzy or Lucas? Let's see what they think.

Izzy says, "During 'Marching Feet,' I concentrate on chanting my words loudly.

My marching got faster and slower." And Lucas says, "During 'Marching Feet,' listening to the drum beat helped me feel the pulse.

My marching feet were steady." Press pause to decide, who do you think will be successful this time? Hi, again, what did you think? Here comes the answer.

Yes, I think Lucas will be successful this time.

He listened to the drumbeat to feel the pulse, so his marching feet were steady.

We have a new song to learn together now.

This is called "I Had a Little Sailboat." This song has a steady pulse that we can hear played as a beat on claves.

Tap your shoulders gently as you listen, feeling the pulse.

Here comes the music for "I Had a Little Sailboat." (instrument clanking) ♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ Her decks were new and all painted blue ♪ ♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook, tra la ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook ♪ ♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ Her decks were new and all painted blue ♪ ♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook, tra la ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook ♪ Here comes a tricky and fun challenge that we can do with a partner for "I Had a Little Sailboat." Let's feel the pulse and move in time to the beat as we listen.

To do this, you're going to sit opposite a partner, facing one another, and each pair needs one ball.

As you listen to the song, feel the pulse and roll the ball back and forth between you in time to the beat.

Let's have a look at what this will be like.

So you're going to sit opposite your partner, not too far apart, with one ball between you, and on the purple words, your partner is going to roll the ball and on the turquoise words, the other partner will roll it back.

♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ Her decks were new and all painted blue ♪ ♪ I had a little sailboat ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook, tra la ♪ ♪ And sailed it on the brook ♪ This challenge is tricky and may take lots of practice, and you're going to want to do it at your own pace where you are.

So have a practice with your partner and use the audio button when you're ready to try it with the music.

Have fun, and I'll see you soon.

How did you get on with that tricky challenge? How do you know you and your partner were successful? Here are some of our Oak friends' ideas.

Alex says, "We focused on feeling the pulse and listened to the claves playing the strong beat." That's a good strategy.

And Aisha and her partner looked at each other so they could roll the ball gently in time to the beat.

That's a great strategy to be successful, too.

Well done, everyone.

A challenge like that takes a lot of practice, great work.

Now let's move on to playing the pulse to help us sing in time.

Our song, "Charlie Over the Ocean," is an echo song with a steady pulse, and we can turn "Charlie Over the Ocean" into a game.

Watch this video of a teacher and some pupils playing the game.

Watch carefully.

How is the teacher helping pupils to sing and move in time? Here comes the video.

♪ Ready, steady, off you go ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ 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 ♪ (feet pattering) (body thudding) ♪ Ready, steady, off we go ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ 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 ♪ (feet pattering) (teacher vocalizing) (feet continue pattering) <v ->Did you spot that the teacher is playing the pulse</v> as a strong beat using claves? Well done if you noticed that.

This helps the pupils to sing and move in time together.

Let's try that ourselves.

Listen to "Charlie Over the Ocean." Can you sit in a circle and play the pulse as a beat on your claves? Here comes the music again.

♪ One, two, three, four ♪ ♪ Charlie over the ocean ♪ (instrument clanking) ♪ Charlie over the sea ♪ ♪ Charlie caught a big fish ♪ ♪ Can't catch me ♪ (instrument continues clanking) ♪ Charlie over the ocean ♪ ♪ Charlie over the sea ♪ ♪ Charlie caught a big fish ♪ ♪ Can't catch me ♪ Now it's your turn to play the game "Charlie Over the Ocean." Choose a leader to move around the circle and sing the call.

Everybody else in the circle then sings the responses, and remember to feel the pulse and play the beat on your claves, too.

Remember, playing the pulse as a beat will help us to sing together in time.

To help you do this, you have a track with just the claves, which you might want to use, or with claves and the singing if you'd rather use that, and you can also watch the video of the game if you want a reminder of how to play.

Press pause and use the video and audio buttons if you need them to play the game "Charlie Over the Ocean." It's time for a check-in with our learning.

We play the pulse as a strong beat to, A, make a song sound more interesting, B, help us to sing quietly, or C, help us to sing in time together.

Which one do you think is the right answer? Here comes the answer to see if you're right.

We play the pulse as a strong beat to help us to sing in time together.

Well done if you got that right, great understanding.

Here's another working song with a steady pulse that we can hear as a beat.

It's called "Yangtze Boatman," and it's a folk song from China.

We think it may have been sung by people rowing boats along the Yangtze River, and the words don't have any specific meaning.

Let's listen to the song together.

Can you hear the beat? Feel the pulse and tap your knees in time.

Here's the music.

(drum resonating) ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ Let's listen again.

This time, join in softly with the singing.

Tapping the pulse as a beat on our knees will help us to sing in time.

Here's the music again.

Get ready to tap and sing.

(drum resonating) ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ Another way to play the pulse as a beat to help us keep in time is with body percussion.

Let's try that now with "Yangtze Boatman." Play the pulse by clapping and touching hands with a partner as you listen like this.

♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ (hands smacking) ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ And so on.

When you've mastered the body percussion, you and your partner could try singing at the same time.

Get ready to do the body percussion with your partner.

Let's try that again.

Feel the pulse and use your partner body percussion to play the beat, but listen carefully this time.

Can you notice something that's changed? Here comes "Yangtze Boatman" again.

Get ready with your body percussion.

What's changed? (drum resonating) ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ ♪ Yai yai yai, hai yai yai ♪ ♪ Ya hoo ya hoo hey ♪ Hi, again, did you notice something different that second time around? Jun and Izzy did.

They said, "This time, we noticed that the song was a bit faster.

It had a faster tempo." Well done if you spotted that.

And Sam and Jacob say, "We could feel the pulse.

Playing the beat with the body percussion helped us to sing in time." I hope it helped you to sing in time, too, even when it was a bit faster.

We've come to the end of our lesson.

I really enjoyed this one.

Before we go, let's take a moment to think about everything we've been learning.

We know that when we feel the pulse, our bodies can want to move or clap in time.

When we do this, we're sounding the pulse as a beat, and we know that playing the pulse as a strong beat can help us to sing in time together.

We know that we can play the pulse using instruments, like we did with our claves, body percussion, like with "Yangtze Boatman," or show the pulse by moving our bodies.

And we know that many sea shanties and other working songs have a steady pulse that sounded as a strong beat to help workers sing together in time.

What great musical learning today, everyone.

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

Bye, everybody.