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Year 5 Music Samba challenges for pupils self isolating
As part of this, we do the following:
Challenge B: Click here to watch the video about Samba. Use the knowledge organiser and 2 PowerPoints about Brazil and Samba to produce a poster about Samba music. Include the following in your poster: Where in the world samba is from? What instruments are used in Samba? Where does the biggest carnival in the world take place? What do you know about the country Brazil and their culture?
Challenge C: Use the ‘Samba’ PowerPoint under Challenge B to help refresh your memory of names of the Samba instruments. Click here to watch a video. Can you name the samba instruments in the pictures in the Samba instruments quiz below? Click here to listen to some samba music while you work.
Do you recognise any of the instruments in the samba band performance?
Challenge D: Learn about Syncopation- an off beat rhythm which goes across the beat. Click here to watch the video about syncopation. Can you find a plastic cup and learn the cup song which is a syncopated rhythm? Click here to watch a tutorial.
Learn to sing the Jamaican song ‘Shake the Papaya down’ which has a syncopated melody. Click here to hear the song. There is a drum ostinato (repeating pattern) you could have a go at clapping or playing.
Challenge E: Samba is all about rehearsing and learning rhythms accurately. In carnivals, often the samba bands will have choreography. Have a go at the following body percussion patterns:
Challenge F: Recap notation using PowerPoint. Then have a go at clapping some rhythm grids. Click here to see if you can apply your notation knowledge to clap or play the notated rhythms in the Ghostbusters rhythm activity. Could you find two wooden sticks e.g. 2 wooden spoons or 2 pencils etc to play the rhythms?
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