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Year 1 - Music

Echoing simple rhythm patterns

Compose and Create: exploring and performing rhythm patterns

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use minibeast names to rehearse and compose simple four beat rhythms by clapping, chanting and performing on untuned percussion. They use minibeast images to order and repeat these rhythms. Backing tracks are used to aid rehearsal and performance of their rhythmic compositions.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to echo a rhythm in time and know that rhythm is the pattern of sounds that we play and sing.

Key Notes

  • We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
  • We can sing and move in time to a steady pulse and find the rhythm in our songs and chants.
  • We can control changes on our percussion instruments, starting, playing and stopping together.
  • We can echo rhythmic phrases when playing our percussion instruments.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
  • syllable: a part of a word
  • rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
  • percussion instrument: a device used to make a musical sound which is played by striking, scraping or shaking
  • echo: an exact copy of a musical phrase

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing. We can sing and move in time to a steady pulse and find the rhythm in our songs and chants.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pulse'

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pulse, beat and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: Pulse is the regular heartbeat of the music. Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences of differing durations.

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