{"id":1412,"date":"2025-04-03T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:39:32","slug":"beat-rhythm-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/2025\/04\/03\/beat-rhythm-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat, Rhythm &amp; Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;Pussycat Pussycat&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1413\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213031\/Pussycat-Pussycat-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213031\/Pussycat-Pussycat-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213031\/Pussycat-Pussycat-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213031\/Pussycat-Pussycat.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below are two videos which show us practising &#8216;Pussycat Pussycat&#8217; where we tap the beat and clap the rhythm to show the difference.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1412-1\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/quicktime\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213250\/P2a-Pussycat-beat-rhythm.mov?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213250\/P2a-Pussycat-beat-rhythm.mov\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213250\/P2a-Pussycat-beat-rhythm.mov<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>We have also been learning about pitch &#8211; how high or low a sound is, and we&#8217;ve been using our singing voices to match the pitch that we&#8217;ve heard. We have also been learning how to use our hands to show if the pitch is high, middle or low. The song &#8216;Rain is Falling Down&#8217; is one we have learned which has three different pitches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1418\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213643\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-song-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213643\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-song-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213643\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-song-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213643\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-song.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1416\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1-1200x436.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213638\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p1.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1417\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2-1024x379.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2-1200x444.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213641\/Rain-is-Falling-Down-pitch-p2.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of us singing the song and showing the high, middle and low pitches with our hand positions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1412-2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/quicktime\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213633\/P2a-Rain-is-Falling-Down.mov?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213633\/P2a-Rain-is-Falling-Down.mov\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2025\/04\/03213633\/P2a-Rain-is-Falling-Down.mov<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;Pussycat Pussycat&#8217; gave us an opportunity to learn about a question and answer style of song in music where we kept the beat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/2025\/04\/03\/beat-rhythm-pitch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beat, Rhythm &amp; Pitch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundp1a2324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}