Wellesley Park Primary School – Music Topic: Bringing us Together Year: 3 Strand: Disco What should I already Know? Diagrams ● To confidently identify and move to the pulse. ● Know how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together to create a song. ● Know that every piece of music has a pulse/steady beat. ● To sing in unison and in simple two-parts ● To listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader. ● To know that if you improvise using the notes you are given, you cannot make a mistake

Musical Skills and Theory Listen & Appraise Find the pulse as you are listening: Dance, clap, sway, march, be an animal or a pop star. Instruments/voices you can hear: Keyboard, drums, Vocabulary Songs/Resources bass, a female singer. Rhythm Follows the patterns of ● Bringing Us Together by Joanna Mangona and Pete Do the words of the song tell a story? words – it is often different Readman to the pulse. ● Good Times by Nile Rodgers Musical Activities Pulse The steady beat felt ● Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan Warm-up games lay and copy back using up to 3 throughout the music ● We Are Family by Sister Sledge Pitch The “volume” of music notes – C + A ● Ain’t No Stopping Us Now by McFadden and Tempo The speed of the pulse. Singing in 2 parts. Whitehead Dynamics How loud or quiet music is ● Car Wash by Rose Royce Play instrumental parts with the song by ear and/or Texture Layers of sound working from notation using the easy or medium part. You will together to make music be using up to 3 notes – C, A + G interesting to listen to. Children to bring their own instruments (or glocks) Improvise using up to 2 notes – C + A Structure Introduction, verse, chorus, Compose a simple melody using simple rhythms ending Composer choosing from the notes C, A + G or C, D, E, G + A. ( Improvise To make up a tune and play Bringing Us Together by Joanna Pentatonic scale) it on the spot Mangona and Pete Readman Disco A style of dance music using Disco music includes strong drum and Perform and Share bass lines. It has quite a fast tempo with The performance will include one or more of the four-on-the-floor beats Riff A short repeated phrase a steady dance groove and energetic electric guitar lines. Disco first appeared following: Improvisations • Instrumental Pentatonic A fixed five-note pattern in the 1970s in New York. performances • Compositions Scale