L E SS O N
World unite
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Musical focus: Step dance Subject link: PE
World unite body beats
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Keep a steady beat to a complex piece of music
Count
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• Display and listen to World unite performance audio, noticing
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that: – after the introduction, three sung choruses alternate with two instrumental verses; – there is an underlying steady beat throughout; – the steady beat supports syncopated (off-beat) rhythms and melodies.
• Display World unite body beats and listen to the teaching
audio: – first time: join in patting knees to the steady beat of the claves; – second time: practise then perform this pattern to the beat – tap knees, clap, tap knees, clap.
World unite in syncopation
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Sing the song and accompany it with a body beat pattern, highlighting the syncopation of the melody
• Display World unite in syncopation. Listen to the sung chorus in the World unite chorus teaching audio. As you listen, perform the body beat pattern from activity 1. Notice how some words and syllables come in between or off the beat. This is called syncopation.
Sung chorus
Come Come Come Come Come Come Come Come
on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on,
come come come come come come come come
on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on,
• Divide into two groups to learn to sing the chorus with the
together, be as one. together, world as one. together, get it right. together, world unite.
World unite chorus teaching audio: – group 1 copies the singer in the gaps, while – group 2 performs the body beat pattern throughout. Swap groups and repeat the activity. When this is secure, all sing and perform the body pattern throughout.
• Listen to World unite body beats teaching audio and count
how many groups of four beats there are in the introduction after the initial four-beat count-in before the start of the chorus. (There are eight groups of four beats.)
• Play the World unite performance audio. All perform the body
beat pattern throughout and join in singing the chorus in unison each time it occurs.
Compass beat patterns
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Find ways to arrange body beat patterns in unison and together N
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• Explain that you are going to invent new body beat patterns to
perform in the instrumental verses of World unite. Divide the class into pairs; each pair invents a new four-beat body pattern, eg 1 stamp
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2 clap
3 tap head
4 clap
Invite each pair to demonstrate their pattern with the World unite instrumental verse teaching audio.
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• Display Compass beat patterns. Allocate each pair a compass direction – north, east, south, west – and group pairs together so that each group has all four points of the compass. Each compass group explores ways to arrange their body beat patterns for performance in the instrumental verse, eg – in sequence: pairs perform their patterns once each, repeatedly going round the compass: N E S W, N E S W… – in combination: N and S alternate with E and W; – cumulatively: N NE NES NESW, starting one after another, but then continuously repeating their patterns.
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• Invite groups to perform their arrangement to the class with the World unite instrumental verse teaching audio.
LESSON LEARNING
EXTENDED LEARNING
• Exploring beat and syncopation through a song and body percussion
Combine the group Compass beat patterns to make a whole class performance, deciding how you will structure all of the groups’ patterns.
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