_ Brief overview of music genres to be studied Key Knowledge/Skills – As a musician I will… The Beatles helped to reshape Western Pop music in the 1960s and were the most successful band ever. Listen to songs How does the song make you feel? ● The Beatles had four members in their band: John by the Beatles – Does the song tell a story? Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo focus on What does the song make you think Starr. Paul McCartney wrote this song Blackbird about Blackbird of? civil rights for African Americans ● Slavery had been How old do you think this piece of abolished in America but racism was still happening music is? and life just wasn't equal for African Americans ● There was a huge struggle for equality, lots of dreadful things Appraise songs ● Blackbird by The Beatles ● Tempo were going on, people were dying ● In the 1950s and by the Beatles Yellow Submarine by The Dynamics 1960s, the civil rights movement – led by Martin Luther Beatles ● Hey Jude by The Instruments used King Jr. – challenged ‘white supremacy’ ● After reading Beatles ● Can’t Buy Me Love about this, Paul wrote the song Blackbird about a black Style by The Beatles ● Yesterday woman, in support of the Black Power Movement. How the song is put together/ by The Beatles ● Let It Be by structured The Beatles Play along with Listen and find the pulse. the pulse Play the pulse with different instruments Key Vocabulary Listen to and Use the Churanga warm up games Pulse Pulse is a steady beat like a ticking clock or your heartbeat identify different to experiment with rhymm and throughout a song rhythms in the tempo Tempo 'rate or speed'; in other words, it's how fast or slow the music songs and play is along Dynamics ow loud or quiet the music is. Performance - Perform Blackbird. Record and Verse a series of lyrics that tell the main story of the song and keep Blackbird: Sing send to parents the action or thoughts moving forward. Chorus a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse Perfomance Use Churanga to learn the Blackbird: Play differentiated version of Blackbird Intro Start of the song with on the Glockenspiels Instrumental Part of the song that has no singing glockenspeils Useful websites https://www.lancashiremusichub.co.uk/freestyle/1312394-ks2-units-of-work/1314288-blackbird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZSHsJjsh-Y .