Year 1 - Music
Feeling the pulse and playing the beat
Start with singing: finding my singing voice
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Unit Summary
This unit helps pupils to discover the difference between their speaking, or chanting, and singing voice. Through a diverse range of echo and call and response songs pupils will begin to pitch match songs that use an age appropriate small range of notes.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play a steady beat on your instrument as we 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 the music and know that pulse is the steady heartbeat of the music.
- We can play a steady beat on percussion instruments as we sing and chant.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pulse: the regular, steady heartbeat of the music
- beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
- instrument: a device used to make a musical sound
- percussion: an instrument played by striking, scraping or shaking
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 the music and know that pulse is the steady heartbeat of the music.
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. Beat is what we play or show when making the pulse audible or visible. Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences of differing durations.
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