Feel the Beat
Time Signature
- 4/4
Theme
- Music
Style
- Swing
Articulation
- Tie
Tempo
- Allegro
Dynamics
- Crescendo
- Forte
- Mezzo Forte
- Mezzo Piano
- Piano
- Subito
Form
- Repeat Signs
- Verse/Refrain
Movement Type
- Body Percussion
- Choreography
- Creative Movement (Locomotor)
Voicing
- Unison
Language
- English
Rhythm
- Beamed Quavers
- Beat / No Beat
- Crotchet
- Crotchet Rest
- Dotted Crotchet
- Minim
- Minim Rest
- Quaver Rest
- Semibreve Rest
- Single Quaver
Year Group
- Year 5+
See More
Year 1
Lesson 30: Changing Dynamics
Year 2
Lesson 16: Differentiating Types of Sound
Year 2
Lesson 28: Dynamics as Expression
Year 2
Lesson 5: Rests
Year 3
Lesson 18: Families in the Orchestra
Year 3
Lesson 21: Sections and Phrases
Year 6
Lesson 8: Mixed Metres
Instrument Units
Lesson 0: Recorder Class Method - Unit 2
Instrument Units
Lesson 1: Guitar Class Method - Unit 1
Listening Maps
Lesson : Listening Maps
Demo Group
Lesson 2: Mark is Developing
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Lesson 3: Very First Steps: Sound
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Lesson : Very First Steps: The Beat
Disney Music Activities (EYFS & KS1)
Lesson 2: Very First Steps: Singing
Musicals
Lesson : Once Upon a Starry Night
New Test Group
Lesson 30: Am I Hearing You Right?
New Test Group
Lesson 28: It's Dynamically Fun!
Global Drumming
Lesson 1: 1. High Tone on Drum; Rattle
Global Drumming
Lesson 2: 2. Low Tone on Drum; Bell
Global Drumming
Lesson 3: 3. Question and Answer with Echo
Global Drumming
Lesson 4: 4. Double Bell (Gankogui)
Global Drumming
Lesson 5: 5. Rhythm Complements
Global Drumming
Words and Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson
Copyright © 2009 by Hal Leonard Corporation
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved
Available Learning Resources
Feel the Beat Credits
Words and Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson
Copyright © 2009 by Hal Leonard Corporation
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved
Teaching Plan
Feel the Beat
Goals
- Keep the steady beat of the song with body percussion.
- Compose simple and advanced body percussion routines.
Materials
- Optional: index cards and markers
Instructions
- Choose two people to be Steady Beat leaders as you listen to the song. The leaders will take turns demonstrating steady beat motions for the rest to follow. Alternate leaders every 8-16 beats.
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Sing the words to the song together. Choose a clapping pattern for the Dance Break of off-beats or eighth notes.
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Compose a 4-beat body percussion routine for the chorus of the song: Feel the beat from your head down to your feet. Feel the beat. Ev'rybody clap your hands! Feel the beat. Ev'ry beat can be so sweet. Feel the beat. Ev'rybody clap your hands!
- Divide into groups. Optional: groups may write down a visual reminder of their pattern on index cards with markers.
- Example of a 4-beat body percussion routine: clap, snap right, snap left, clap.
- Perform your 4-beat routine for other groups. Try out other routines from other groups. Perform with the chorus of the song.
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Challenge: compose an 8-beat body percussion routine for the Dance Break of the song.
- Example of an 8-beat body percussion routine: clap, snap right, snap left, clap, stomp right, stomp left, stomp right, stomp left. (It is fine to add to your 4-beat routine from the chorus of the song.)
- Perform your 8-beat routine for other groups. Try out other routines from other groups. Perform with the Dance Break of the song.
- Choose your favorite 4-beat and 8-beat body percussion routines to perform with the entire song.
- Optional: Learn the choreography video to this song.
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