Year 1 - Music
Singing echo songs
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 sing an echo and know what an echo is.
Key Notes
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
- We can sing together or on our own and know when it is our turn to sing.
- We know that an echo is a copy of a sound and enjoy creating different echoes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- sing: create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
- chant: speaking in time to a pulse
- song: music with words
- echo: an exact copy of a musical phrase
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Echo and call and response are the same.
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 use our voices to chant and sing together.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'sing'
create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Echo and call and response are the same. Correction: An echo is an exact match of a phrase. A call and response is a question and answer structure in which the response can be different from the call.
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