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Year 2 - Music

Singing with pitch accuracy

Start with singing: learning through singing games

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils develop their understanding of pitch, pulse, beat, and rhythm by participating in a variety of singing games. Through playful and interactive songs and movements, pupils will naturally develop their understanding of these musical elements.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to sing high and low pitches, matching a leader.

Key Notes

  • Singing questions and answers is a form of call and response musical structure.
  • A sung question has a melody. When we sing it, our voice moves up and down as we sing different pitches.
  • Using pitch actions can help us feel how the pitch moves in the melody.
  • Singing questions and answers with the same melody is a good way of practising matching pitch.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • singing voice: the voice we use to create musical sounds that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
  • call and response: a question and answer musical structure
  • melody: a combination of notes to make a memorable tune
  • pitch: how high or low a note is

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • If I can't match the pitch, it means I am a bad singer!

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Singing questions and answers is a form of call and response musical structure. A sung question has a melody. When we sing it, our voice moves up and down as we sing different pitches.

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

the voice we use to create musical sounds that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: If I can't match the pitch, it means I am a bad singer! Correction: Matching pitch takes practice. Using pitch actions can help students feel the pitch as they sing and learn to match pitch more accurately.

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