Py Lesson 1 If the children are new to this scheme of work, 50 haven't worked through the set lesson plans for Years 3,4.and5,itisessential that you do that now, before embarking on the lessons that follow. You might well get through the fifteen lessons much more quickly than in a term and a half, but it is important that you and the children have a solid foundation of knowledge, understanding and skills before embarking on this more challenging Year 6 work. Ifthe children have worked from the scheme for at least a year, but you are not a musician and are new to it,you wilineed. to take time to study the set lessons for Years 3, 4,and 5 to get a clear understanding of the work covered, Objectives: * To develop rhythmic and co-ordination skills, * To introduce Jaz, including the words and sounds: Blues, Boogie Woogie + Toleatn about the drum kit and to co-ordinate sounds and actions * To identify the sounds of different instruments Passing names and rhythms © This warm-up activity develops quick thinking, co-ordination and rhythmic skills. * Sit in a class circle. Any child can start, and each child is responsible for cight steady crotchet beats. During the first four beats, the child does two knee-pats, followed by two finger clicks while saying their own first name twice and then someone else's first name twice. The other four beats comprise a 4-time rhythm that the child invents on the spot and claps. The person named then continues without a break with the patting/ clicking pattern and their own invented rhythm. Everyone else should continue with the knee-patting and finger-clicking to maintain the pulse. See the example below to get started: 1 2 3 4 5 Tom Tom Ellie Ellie d 6 Ellie Ellie Stephanie Stephanie Jed JJ Stephanie Stephanie ake ake Jd Jd Introducing Jazz + First explain that Jazz originated from Africa. It is helpful to show a world map and to explain about the passage of slaves. © There are many styles of jazz. We'll look at two of them in this lesson. * Blues is often played by small groups of musicians or solo guitar accompanied by mournful but gutsy vocals. John Lee Hooker is a great exponent of Blues. Listen to track 26 on the CD for a short original piece called Troelve-bar blues. * Boogie Woogie is like a fast Blues played on solo piano with a heavy rolling bass. Listen to track 27 on the cD. 13 1 nj Getting in the groove + Now listen to track 28 on the CD, which is a great jazz piece called Getting in the Groove. * Listen again to the piece and join in clapping on the first beat of every four. When this is established, you start off a new beat by clapping on the first and the third beats of every four, and finally change to the second and the fourth. + Playa short part of the track again with three people standing up to demonstrate how those claps can all work together. * Number off the circle so everyone is 1, 2 or 3. Play a part of the track while the three different groups (1,2,3) clap the three different patterns simultaneously. One group might all clap above their heads and anothergroup turning slightly so they’re clapping out of the circle, the third group clap normally. » This time when you play the track, continue with the ‘three group’ clapping activity but instead of clapping, try finger clicks, When you point to a child, that child claps any rhythm or beat they'd like. Another signal indicates that the child should go back to clicking with the rest of the class. Continue like this, giving various children clapping solos. » Choose a few people to play the established beats on non-pitched instruments. Don’t have too many or you'll drown out the CD. » Pass instruments one place to your left so others have a turn. Rock Beats - sounds » Listen to track 29 of the CD to hear the drum kit. Can the children pick out the sounds of the bass drum, the hi-hat, the tom and the snare? + Divide the class into four groups to represent these four parts of the drum kit in a class piece. Copy the four parts below onto the board. » Making the vocal sound given, each group repeats the given bar as many times as you want. Count the children in and see if they can achieve all four parts at the same time straight away without practising individual parts first. 1 a 3 4 Bass drum: boom t boom boom Hichat: Iss 18s 138, 1s ass tss ‘Tom: doom doom t doom Snare: cha-ka cha-ka cha-ka cha Rock Beats - co-ordinating actions * This is a good co-ordination exercise for drummers. The hands and feet are going to do four different things. ‘You need to be sitting down for this exercise, preferably in a chair though it does work sitting on the floor if you bend your knees and keep your heels on the ground. The right hand should tap the right knee and the left, the left knee. Left hand: J J J J Add left foot: J x J x Add right foot: J x x x Aad