We have been continuing to reinforce our sense of steady beat using body percussion and we have also explored the relationship between beat and rhythm. A song that we have learned called ‘Pussycat Pussycat’ gave us an opportunity to learn about a question and answer style of song in music where we kept the beat by tapping while singing the questions and showing the rhythm of the answers by clapping.
Below are two videos which show us practising ‘Pussycat Pussycat’ where we tap the beat and clap the rhythm to show the difference.
We have also been learning about pitch – how high or low a sound is, and we’ve been using our singing voices to match the pitch that we’ve heard. We have also been learning how to use our hands to show if the pitch is high, middle or low. The song ‘Rain is Falling Down’ is one we have learned which has three different pitches.
After using our hands to show the pitch of the song, we talked about which words in the song were at a high, middle or low pitch and we put them into three different sets of clouds to show how the pitch changed in the song.
Here is a video of us singing the song and showing the high, middle and low pitches with our hand positions.
