Adding simple instrumental parts to songs and chants
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use percussion instruments to add musical punctuation to songs and chants.
Key learning points
- The rhythm is the pattern of the lyrics we sing or chant.
- We can work out the rhythm of a word using syllables.
- Stick notation can be used to notate rhythms.
- Takadimi is a rhythm where there are four equal sounds within one beat.
- Unpitched percussion instruments can be used to highlight rhythms in a song or chant.
Keywords
Beat - the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
Rhythm - the pattern of sounds and silences that we play and sing
Syllable - a part of a word
Stick notation - a way of writing music down
Unpitched percussion - an instrument that makes a sound when you strike, shake, or scrape it, but doesn’t have a specific note or pitch
Common misconception
Each sound in a rhythm is a beat.
Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences of differing durations. Rhythmic notes can have a duration of one beat, more than one beat, or less than one beat.
Teacher tip
The connection between beat and rhythm can be further explored by revisiting familiar chants, songs, and nursery rhymes.
Equipment
Class set of unpitched percussion instruments that are easy for pupils to play rhythms clearly on e.g. claves and drums.
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