Summary
“One Small Voice (Original Instrumental)” is a Jack Hartmann song-and-movement video that teaches the building blocks of music — beat, rhythm, and how a song is put together. Short and catchy — an easy warm-up, transition, or review.
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All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Music is built from a steady beat, patterns of longer and shorter sounds, and a melody on top. You can hear all three once you know to listen for them.
- Can you clap the steady beat?
- Is this song fast or slow, loud or soft?
- What instrument or voice do you hear?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: beat, rhythm, tempo, melody, instrument.
Try it: Clap the beat through one verse, then try clapping the rhythm of the words.