Decide How You Going to Perform This Song. It Tells an Important Story. Tell
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Using glocks and/or recorders Decide how you going to perform this song. Theme: This is a Disco song about Warm-up games play and copy back using It tells an important story. Tell your audience friendship, peace, hope and unity. up to 3 notes – C + A. Bronze: no notes | how you learnt this song and why. Record Facts/Info: Disco music includes strong Silver: C + A | Gold: C + A Challenge. Which drum and bass lines. It has quite a fast the performance and talk about it Find the pulse as you are listening: Dance, challenge did you get to? tempo with a steady dance groove and afterwards. clap, sway, march, be an animal or a pop Singing in 2 parts. energetic electric guitar lines. Disco first appeared in the 1970s in New York. star. Play instrumental parts with the song by ear The performance will include one or more and/or from notation using the easy or of the following: Listen to 5 other disco songs Instruments/voices you can hear: Keyboard, medium part. You will be using up to 3 notes Good Times by Nile Rodgers Improvisations drums, bass, a female singer. – C, A + G. Which part did you play? Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan Do the words of the song tell a story? Does Improvise using up to 2 notes – C + A. Instrumental performances We Are Family by Sister Sledge Bronze: C | Silver: C, and sometimes A | the music create a story in your imagination? Compositions Gold: C + A challenge. Which challenge did Ain’t No Stopping Us Now by What story? you get to? McFadden and Whitehead Compose a simple melody using simple Car Wash by Rose Royce rhythms choosing from the notes C, A + G or C, D, E, G + A. ( Pentatonic scale) keyboard compose pitch riff What did you like best about this Unit? Why? Did you have any strong feelings about it? drums disco tempo melody Was there anything you didn’t enjoy about it? Were you proud of yourself, happy or bass pentatonic scale dynamics Why? annoyed? imagination pulse texture structure What are the ‘style indicators’ of Disco music? improvise rhythm hook How do you know this is Disco music? Wording courtesy of Charanga .