Feel the beat

1 Music has a steady beat, can you feel it in your feet?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

(stamp feet)

Hear the music in the band, can you feel it in your hands?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

(clap hands)

Now let’s try a clever trick, can you make your fingers click?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

(click fingers)

‘Feel the beat’ is what I said, can you think it in your head?

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 8

(count silently until beat eight)

Music has a steady beat or pulse. Just like your heartbeat, it keeps going all the
way through a song or tune. A fast tune will have a fast beat and a slower tune
a slower beat.

Tap a steady beat and chant the words of a song you know well. Keep tapping
all the way through.

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Super listener
When you can sing and then play ‘Jelly on a plate’ really well, try a lower
version starting on the G string. Then play an even lower version—which
string will you begin on?

Be a composer
1. Make up your own tune by playing the pattern of the following words
on your open strings. Tap a steady beat and say the words through a few
times before you start.

‘I hear footsteps on the street.

Someone’s there with great big feet!’

2. Invent your own tune using notes from the boxes. Write your tune in
the heartbeat spaces—one box per heartbeat—and then play it from
start to finish.

D DD
AA G

C A
CC
GG

Give your tune a title: ________________________________

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Viola strings from high to low, let me tell you how they go.
First there’s A then D then G, way down low you’ll find the C.

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Play each string from low to high, start with C then reach for the sky!

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Rain-drops fall from the sky, ground is wet, so am I.
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On my head, on my knees, wish I had my wel - lies!

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Lively,
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your el - bow as you cross the string,

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Swing
Swing your
your elel - - bow
bow as
as you cross
you cross the
the string,
string,

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Swing your el - bow as you cross the string,
See - saw bow - ing, that’s the thing! One more time now!

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1. Chant
2. Slower trem.

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See - saw bow - ing, that’s the thing! One more time now!

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thing! Swing it, yeah!

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2. Slower trem.

thing! Swing it, yeah!

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 D-string activity page
Writing time

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Draw these D-string notes on the stave below:

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Bar 1: x 4 on open D

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Bar 2: x 2 on E

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Bar 3: on F #
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Bar 4: on G and a two-beat rest
4
A # 44
Now draw a down-bow sign above the first note and play the tune through.

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Play ‘Roller coaster’ on page 24 and then do the quiz below.
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feel - ing ve - ry diz - zy so far from the ground.
• Some notes are missing in the tune. Fill them in where you see the * sign.
- ry diz - zy so far from the ground.
• Draw a circle around the time signature.

• Fill in the missing number:

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44 means ________ a beats in a bar.

• A rest is missing in bar 4. Draw it in correctly.

• Draw a circle around some h Es.

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• How many F s can you count in the first line? _________

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I’m blue,
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my shoe,
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don’t know
know where
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it, got
got the
the

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lost shoe
shoe blues. I’ll miss the bus, what a fuss!

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lost blues. I’ll miss the bus, what a fuss!

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late
late for
for school
school and
and teach-er’s
teach-er’s mad,
mad, II feel so sad. I’ll have to hop,

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feel so sad. I’ll have to hop,
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and not
not stop,
stop, don’t
don’t know
know where
where II put
put it,
it, got
got the
the lost
lost shoe
shoe blues.
blues.

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Missed it!
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On
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the move

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Run-ning
Run-ning to
to the
the rail
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way sta
sta -- tion,
tion, hope
hope the
the train
train will
will be
be on
on time.
time. I’ve
I’ve

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checked
checked the
the time
time and
and des
des -- tin
tin -- a
a -- tion,
tion, it’s
it’s on
on plat
plat -- form
form nine.
nine. Oh!
Oh!

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Train
Train went
went past,
past, it left
left with
with -- out
out me, sped
sped right
right down
down that rail
rail -- way
way line.
line. I’m

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it me, that I’m

stand
stand -- ing
ing here
here at
at plat
plat -- form
form one,
one, not
not plat
plat -- form
form num
num -- ber
ber nine!
nine!
At the end of the piece, slide your left hand up and down the fingerboard like a
fast train.

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Scale of D major
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Play a different rhythm for each note of the scale.
Play 44 rhythms with track 61 . Play 43 rhythms with track 62 .

Aiming high
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we’re

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reach the top! fli - ers,

Superaim-ing
listener
high, we’ll ne - ver ev - er stop un - til we reach the top!

Play a scale starting on your G or C string.

64 G major 43 65 C major 44

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(1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3)

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Look - ing for some-thing sweet, some-thing he can crunch.

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Cro - co - diles al - ways smile, but they like to bite.

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If he comes creep - ing near, don’t be too po - lite,
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Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap!

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Cro - co - diles al - ways smile, but they like to bite.
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Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap! Snap, snap, snap!
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Sum - mer’s here, the sun is shin-ing bright - ly, time to have a ho - li

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sun is shin-ing bright - ly, I just love the ho - li - days, yes I do!

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