Music · Year 1

High and Low: Exploring Pitch

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Story time 📖

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🎵 Have you a ? Now about a big . Those very ! One is and one is LOW. In , we this . Let's it !

is how or low a is. A makes a very . A big makes a very LOW . Every in has its own ! 🎶

Try this with your ! Say the ' low and UP . Now say ' and low. Your just ! do this all the .

To , about . UP the the . the the . 🪜

Climbing the pitch stairs — each step takes the sound higher.

🗂️ Sort these sounds into HIGH pitch or LOW pitch. Think carefully about each one! 🐦🐸

  • A tiny bird tweeting 🐦

  • A big drum boom 🥁

  • A baby chick cheeping 🐣

  • A foghorn on a ship 🚢

  • A piccolo flute 🎵

  • A lion roaring 🦁

use to . For and low , we can . A dot on the a . A dot LOW on the a low . This is called ! 🎼

What you drawWhat it means
A dot near the top of the page ⬆️A HIGH note
A dot near the bottom of the page ⬇️A LOW note
Dots going up like stairs 📈The pitch is getting HIGHER
Dots going down like a slide 📉The pitch is getting LOWER
What graphic notation looks like

🧩 A melody goes LOW, then a bit HIGHER, then the HIGHEST note, then back LOW. Put these graphic notation descriptions in the correct order! 🎵

  1. A dot back at the BOTTOM 🔵
  2. A dot at the very TOP 🟡
  3. A dot in the MIDDLE ⚪
  4. A dot at the very BOTTOM 🔵

✍️ Fill in the missing words to show you understand pitch! 🌟

How or a is called its .

done! You can now for and low , use your to , and . You are like a ! 🌟

Quiz time! 📝

High and Low: Pitch Quiz 🎵

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