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Here is a list of songs/artists you could find before showing this PowerPoint:

•• ‘AreYou
‘Are YouGonna
GonnaGoGoMyMyWay’
Way’by
byLenny
LennyKravitz
Kravitz
•• ‘Fossils’from
‘Fossils’ from‘The
‘TheCarnival
Carnivalofofthe
theAnimals’
Animals’by
byCamille
CamilleSaint-Saëns
Saint-Saëns
•• ‘Happy’by
‘Happy’ byPharrell
PharrellWilliams
Williams
•• ‘Lullaby’by
‘Lullaby’ byJohannes
JohannesBrahms
Brahms

For the game on Slide 8 of the PowerPoint, children will need to be sitting in a circle. The aim of the
game is for children to clap a steady pulse. Often, children find this difficult and get faster so they will
need support with this. You could use a metronome to help keep the steady pulse. If you don’t have a
physical metronome, online ones are available. For the activity on Slide 10, you will need to clap different
rhythms for children to copy. You could use simple word phrases, such as jelly on a plate. For more ideas,
check out our Copycat Rhythm Music Activity Cards.
Special Music Words
Music has lots of special words.
Have you heard of any of these words? Do you know what they mean?

dynamics notes
notes
dynamics

rest
rest
tempo
tempo
pitch
pitch

bar
bar
duration
duration
Pulse
Put two of your fingers on the side of your neck. Can you feel a
gentle throbbing? It is your heart beating which sends a wave
across your body. This is called your pulse.

You can also feel your

pulse by placing two
fingers on your wrist.

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Click here to start timer

Pulse in Music
Pieces of music also have a pulse. It is a steady beat that keeps
going through a piece of music without getting faster or slower.
Sometimes, the pulse is called the beat.

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Rhythm
Rhythm is the pattern of long and short
sounds in a piece of music. In a song, it is the
pattern of the words.

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In thesong
song‘Twinkle,
‘Twinkle,Twinkle,
Twinkle,Little
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Star’,the
Star’, therhythm
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Clap the Rhythm
Listen to your teacher clap some rhythms. Can you copy the rhythm? What words
or patterns does each rhythm make you think of? Can you clap a rhythm for your
partner to copy? You could clap a familiar sentence or even the pattern of
someone’s name.

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notes:
•• ‘Happy’
‘Happy’bybyPharrell
PharrellWilliams
Williams
•• ‘Lullaby’
‘Lullaby’by
byJohannes
JohannesBrahms
Brahms
Guess the Rhythm
Look at this list of nursery rhymes. Your teacher is going to clap the rhythm of one
of them. Can you guess which one it is?

•• ‘TheWheels
‘The Wheelson
onthe
theBus’
Bus’
•• ‘Windthe
‘Wind theBobbin
BobbinUp’
Up’
•• ‘Row,Row,
‘Row, Row,Row
RowYour
YourBoat’
Boat’
•• ‘1,2,
‘1, 2,3,
3,4,
4,5’
5’
•• ‘Baa,
‘Baa,Baa,
Baa,Black
BlackSheep’
Sheep’

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school.
Pulse and Rhythm
Let’slisten
Let’s listentoto‘Twinkle,
‘Twinkle,
Twinkle,Little
Twinkle, LittleStar’
Star’again.
again.

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pulse is the steady beat that goes throughout
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hear how
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are?
are? Can you explain
Can you explain
different?
different?
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the difference
betweenthem?
between them?
Now, let’s clap the rhythm like we did
before. The rhythm is the pattern of the
words or notes in the song.