KNOW: Steel pan, walking bass
SHOW: Off beat rhythm, Triads, Triplets
COMPOSE: A Calypso piece of Music
Timbre & Rhythm
Steel Pans: 112
Vocals
There’re also heavy
links with African
vocal music.
African Rhythm
With the islands being inhabited with
African slaves African music has a huge
influence Calypso music.
The rhythms are composed using lots of
polyrhythm's.
Calypso Music
Calypso music comes from Trinidad
and Tobago.
The islands have a core population of
descendants of African slaves, the
French brought Carnival to Trinidad,
and calypso competitions held at
Carnivals grew in popularity,
especially after the abolition of slavery
in 1834.
Calypso music was the original way of
spreading news around the island.
PERFORMANCE TASK: CALYPSO WARS
TASK 1:
QUESTION:
TASK 2:
QUESTION:
In three’s perform the theme on the steel pans.
What are these things with 3’s below them?
In three’s perform the piano accompaniment on keyboard.
OFF BEAT TASK
Why are these chords called triads?
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COMPOSITION TASK: Off beat
Rhythm: Off beat
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3
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The offbeat rhythm is the essential ingredient in calypso music. It generates the feel for the piece.
Listen to the specials and detect the instrument playing the offbeat rhythm.
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PERFORMANCE TASK: CALYPSO WARS
TASK 3:
In three’s perform the bass line on the keyboard or the guitar.
KNOW: Steel pan, walking bass
SHOW: Off beat rhythm, Triads, Triplets
COMPOSE: A Calypso piece of Music
TRIADS = BIG FAT
SNOWMAN
TRIADS: Chords. Tonic triads are notes 1, 3 and 5
1st note
2nd note
C
I
Note
D
E
II
III
A…
G
Tone
Degree of scale
I
F
G
IV
V
B
…
A
VI
B
3rd note
C
VII VIII
C
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Tone SemiTone Tone
II
III
IV
Tone
V
F…
E…
D
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Tone
VI
G
SemiTone
VII
EXAM: You will only need to know the tonic triads for C, G, D and F.
EXAM TIP: Essentially use 1, 3 and 5 of the alphabet to find the notes.
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TRIADS
TRIADS TASK: Write out the triads below using semibreves ….. OUT OF 4
10 a: Complete the G major triad.
10 c: Complete the C major triad.
10 b: Complete the D major triad.
10 d: Complete the F major triad.
QUESTION 10: Triads
TRIADS
TRIADS TASK: Write out the triads below using semibreves ….. OUT OF 4
10 a: Complete the G major triad.
10 c: Complete the C major triad.
10 b: Complete the D major triad.
10 d: Complete the F major triad.
COMPOSITION TASK: Triads
TRIADS: A chord of three notes: a bass note and notes a 3rd and 5th above it.
TASK: Decode the triads below
The Chord of G
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The Chord of C
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The Chord of D
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TASK: Perform
D
B
G
G
E
C
A
F
D
Walking Bass line: Perform
Task: Compose your own piece of calypso music
A*
A
B
C
Grade
Grade
Grade
Grade
 Vocal line
 Chord progression
 Off beat
 Authentic timbre
 Walking bass
 Well structured
 C major scale
 Accurate timing
LISTENING PLENARY
Q1: List the Timbre heard in this extract
Steel pan
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Q2: Comment on the bass guitar
Walking bass
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Q3: What is an Off beat rhythm?
Beat lands on the ‘ands’
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Q4: What is a Triad?
A chord made of three notes root, 3rd and 5th
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