Video: Low sounds 

﻿Hi everyone. I'm Ms. Boyd and I'll be your music teacher today. In this lesson, we are going to learn about low pitched sounds. In this lesson you will learn how to recognise low pitched instruments. We will explore how low pitched sounds can be used in musical stories, and you'll get a chance to compose your own piece of music using low pitched sounds. To prepare for this lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper and a pencil. But before we get started, should we begin with a hello song? ♪ Off we go. ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, it's good to see you ♪ ♪ I must say you have made my day ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, hello. ♪ So what are low pitches? Now pitch is how high or how low a sound is, and some musical instruments are designed to make really low sounds. Have a look at the instruments on my screen. Do you recognise any of them? I'll tell you what, let's have a listen to them.

That low sound was made by the bassoon, that first instrument there on our screen, made out of the brown wood. What a gorgeous low sound that created. Let's have a listen to another. That low sound was a French horn. Wasn't it really bassy? What a great low sound that made. Let's have a listen to one more. That low pitch instrument was the clarinet, and actually that recording had a group of clarinets playing together. I really like the clarinet because even though it's low pitched, it also sounds quite smooth, doesn't it? Now in a musical story, low pitch sounds can represent different characters. Have a look at the characters on our screen. You've got somebody's granddad, a wolf, and a cat. I would like you to have a listen to the instruments playing their low sounds. These sounds represent one of the characters, but which characters match those sounds? Have a listen.

Which character do you think that sound represented? Should we have another listen? What do you think? The granddad? Yeah, that's right. That first brown instrument on our screen, the bassoon, represented the granddad, such a low bassy sound, wasn't it, but it sounded quite slow, too. Maybe he's grumpy. Let's have a listen to the next sound. Ooh, those low sounds sounded really, really dark and mean. What character do you think they represented? Let's listen again. That French horn definitely represented something mean and angry. Should we go with the wolf? Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Good listening. Okay, let's go for our third instrument, then. That cat must go with that clarinet. Let's have a listen.

Oh, I like that one. The cat really sounds like it's prancing around and maybe jumping on some things, doesn't it? Have another listen.

Those characters were captured really well with those low-pitched instruments, weren't they? Now, for your last activity, I would like you to pause this video and design a moment in a musical story where these characters talk to each other. It could be the wolf talking to the granddad or the granddad laughing at the cat but I would like you to design a story, draw your story out, and I would like you to pretend to be one of those instruments and create the sounds that you heard to match the characters in your story. I would like you to pause the video now to complete your task. You need to draw a picture of an interaction between the wolf, the cat, and the granddad. What low pitch sounds can you make with your voice to represent their conversation? That's the end of our lesson today. I hope you had fun composing there. We've covered so much today. We've recognised low pitched instruments. You've explored how low pitched instruments could be used in a musical story, and you composed a piece of music using low pitched sounds. Well done. But before we go, we have to say goodbye properly with our goodbye song. Are you ready? ♪ Off we go ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye, ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪ ♪ It's time to go now ♪ ♪ I must say you've made my day ♪ ♪ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. ♪ If you'd like to share some of the music we've made together today, feel free to ask your parent or carer to share your work on social media.

Lesson summary: Low sounds 

In this lesson, we will explore what types of instruments make low pitched sounds and how this can be used in a musical story.

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