Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm
Animated question: what is the musical term used when you tap your foot to the music?
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Animated Question: What is the musical term used when you tap your foot to the music?
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Animated question: what is the musical term used to describe the combination of long and short sounds in music?
Official classification: Rhythm, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Animated explanation of the musical concept of "pulse".
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
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Animated explanation of the musical concept of "beat".
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Animated explanation of the musical concept of "rhythm".
Official classification: Rhythm, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Two groups can clap or tap along with Billy Beat and Rita Rhythm, using the first line of the nursery rhyme 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?'
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Rhythm, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Video, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Clap or Tap along with Billy Beat, using the African song 'Che Che Coole'
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Video, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Clap or Tap along with Billy Beat, using the first line of the nursery rhyme 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?'
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Video, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Clap or Tap along with Rita Rhythm, using the first line of the nursery rhyme 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?'
Official classification: Rhythm, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Video, Unit 14 Salt Pepper Vinegar Mustard, Curriculum support
Interesting videoclip illustrating the spelling of "Beethoven" using the long and short sounds of morse code.
Official classification: Unit 3. The long and the short of it - Exploring duration, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Classical Pieces, Video, Curriculum support
Audio clip examples of sounds with a beat
Official classification: Understanding Sound, Non-Musical Sounds, Pulse (Beat), Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Audio, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
The entire alphabet in morse code!
Official classification: Unit 3. The long and the short of it - Exploring duration, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Interactive Activities, Curriculum support
Full list of the alphabet and numbers in Morse Code.
Official classification: Unit 3. The long and the short of it - Exploring duration, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Image, Curriculum support
Perhaps one of Bach's most well known pieces, a good example of music used in advertisements.
KS2 idea: listen for subtle changes in sound of the melody using the bow and short sounds in the lower instruments.
Also useful to compare with Wagner's Ride of The Valkyries for contrasting tempo and dynamics.
Official classification: Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Classical Pieces, Audio, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
Open source clip from Link Media. A traditional Indian Kathak tells a story through dance accompanied by a tabla.
Official classification: Cyclic patterns, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, South Asia, Dance, World Music, India, Unit 16 Cyclic Patterns, Curriculum support, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, Unit 4. Musical cycles
Action song for thumbs and fingers (gets a bit quicker towards the end!)
Official classification: Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Curriculum support, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Track 33 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. English Country Dance from Saydisc album 'English Country Dances' (1'53")
Main features: instrumentation, structure, drone.
This dance is played on a hurdy-gurdy, flageolet, dulcimer and fiddle. The Track Explorer has two learning tracks focusing on structure and drone.
Official classification: Violin, Listening, Example Instruments, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Dance, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Early Music, Drone, England, Dulcimer, Flageolet, Hurdy-gurdy, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Saydisc Records
This movie from Cell Press shows Snowball bobbing his head in time with the beat for at least 12 consecutive bobs to excerpts, each at a different tempo from the original song (Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys; 108.7 beats per minute [bpm]).
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Tempo, Animals, Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, Video, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Humour
Cash's version of popular song written in 1875 by Henry Clay Work, but may have originated earlier. Suggested as a song for children to sing and slow down at the end for QCA Unit 4 'Feel the Pulse' at KS1. Also worth listening to the percussive 'clock' sound in this recording and for older children noting the key change just over half way through.
Official classification: Unit 4. Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm, 1970s, Audio, Country, Folk, Male, Victorian Times, Curriculum support