Year 1 Music

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Spring 2: A Song of Gladness - exploring timbre and texture

Week 5: We tried "shared piano" on Chrome Music Lab. Melissa and Mya could both use more than one finger to play - like proper pianists!

Week 5: we created little melodies

Week 4: djembe drums. We watched the YouYube video below to make the pattern "peanut butter sandwich." Here is Milan having a go. Great focus

"Peanut Butter" Rhythm for Conga or Djembe - Elementary Drumming

Techniques and rhythms for congas, bongos, djembe, dundun, and hand percussion Music for elementary, middle school, high school world drumming, World music drumming rhythms and techniques, how to play drums. Playing drums, drum lessons by Kalani.

More of Year 1 djembe drumming

Teddy loves the djembe and can play different timbres

Week 3: children working together to play bass, tone and slap - different timbres (sounds) the djembe makes

Week 3: Miss Oldham played the flute but Mrs Williams video wasn't very good!

Week 3: Playing the djembe - Arthur mastered bass, tone and slap!

Week 1: pre-assessment - what do you know about these instruments?

Week 2: We can play percussion

Week 5: Noah has added note names to his high/low composition

Week 5: Creating graphic scores using coloured dots - small for high and big for low. Well done Cody!

Week 4: We also learnt the opposite, the bass clef.

Week 4 - we learnt new words - treble clef shows the high notes

Year 1 Week 2 a whole year group lesson with Boomwhackers in the hall ending with everyone having a go at using the high to low giant piano

High and Low - Animal sounds

Join us to discover the sound of the animals and get prepare to answer some memory quizzes.

Spring 1: Pitch - the Dog, the Bear and the Piano

Week 1: We have been learning about which animals make high or low sounds.

End of topic - we made videos with Chrome Oscillator. Can you tell which bits are legato (smooth) or staccato (spikey)?

Week 5: Click here to use Spectogram Can you guess which sound we chose for blast off, space sounds and back to earth? Mrs Wiliams couldn't conduct and video at the same time!

Week 4: Click here to use Shared Piano We were learning to make our pitch rise from low to high like a rocket launch

Week 3: We made Mars Percussion patterns and tried to play them together. It was quite hard to play all at the same time

Week 2: We made rockets out of multilink and whooshed them up to Mars!

Can you see and hear the rising pitch?

Autumn 2: Toys In Space!

This term we are looking at Holst's The Planets and thinking about what space sounds like!

First of all we watched an orchestra play Mars and moved around the room to it.

We learnt the words staccato and legato. Ask us what they mean!

Week 6 - we made our own rhythms!

Week 4 Robot Invasion - Year 1 tried to play this on the percussion instruments. Well done Year 1

This playalong uses Ta, Ti-Ti, and Sh. Ta is what we in the UK call a crotchet, Ti-Ti are quavers and Sh! is the crotchet rest. Now we are starting to learn to read rhythms in musical notation

Week 3 I am a robot rhythm

Autumn Term:

Our learning this half term is based on "I am a Robot" from BBC Bring the Noise.

You can find it here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/bring-the-noise?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.co.uk%2Fteach%2Fbring-the-noise%2Feyfs-ks1-music-play-it-bring-the-noise%2Fz4sq92p

At the end of week 1 we watched one of our girls sing her own composition, "I am Minnie Mouse, I go squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak." Her video was on our social media page. We also tried to play instruments in time together in a small group. It was difficult but it was only our first time!

In Week 3 We tried to play our instruments to the rhythm. See video below

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