Learning objective

  • To improvise a call and response.

Success criteria

  • I can identify what call and response is.
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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Improvise
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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Speak like an expert.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should play the response part and keep it simple; should focus on playing the first two lines of ‘When the saints go marching in’.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could work alone and then play the response as well as the tune; should play the response in a different octave to their original tune.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: playing a call and then improvising

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Vocabulary definitions

  • call and response

    A musical pattern where one person or group plays or sings a phrase (the call), and another person or group answers with a different phrase (the response).

  • traditional jazz

    An early style of jazz music that started in New Orleans in the early 20th century.

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