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Year 2 - Music

Learning a four note melody on pitched percussion

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to begin to play a song that uses do, mi, so and la on pitched percussion instruments.

Key Notes

  • We can tap the beat and rhythm of a song or rhyme.
  • We can use stick notation to read rhythms using rhythm language.
  • We can feel the pitch going higher and lower as we sing a song.
  • We can use a musical stave to see the pitch of the notes ewe are gioing to play.
  • We can play the melody of a song on pitched percussion instruments using do, mi, so, and la.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • beat: the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock
  • rhythm: the pattern of sounds that we play and sing
  • stick notation: a way of writing rhythms down
  • note: a single sound in music
  • stave: the lines on which musical notes can be placed

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Beat and rhythm are the same thing.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

We can tap the beat and rhythm of a song or rhyme. We can use stick notation to read rhythms using rhythm language.

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

the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Beat and rhythm are the same thing. Correction: The beat follows the steady pulse of a song while the rhythm follows the pattern of the words.

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