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- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS1, KS2
- Musical Element: time signature change
- Year Group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Mathematics, Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison or optional multiple parts
Chromatic warm-up
Use this to warm up KS2 singers’ voices while also teaching them about the chromatic scale!
- Accompaniment: Accompanied, Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: chromaticism
- Year Group: 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Clap to the heartbeat!
One of the hardest things to do in singing is to keep a really steady tempo; pieces often rush ahead! This six-part round helps to train this sense and helps each member of the group to take responsibility for keeping the pulse.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: chant
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional three- to six part round)
Doleful Dick of Delhi
While covering quite a large range, the repetitive ‘sequential’ nature of this tune allows singers to focus on enunciating the words really clearly.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: rising melodic sequence
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up, Tongue-twister
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: a 10th
Hot potato!
This is a fun call and response warm-up to really get you going! It’s also good for getting a class’ attention. It’s a physical warm up that energises the body and lifts the soft palate. It also encourages deep breathing and works the mouth.
- Accompaniment: Unaccompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: call and response
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music, Physical education
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison or optional multiple parts
Ken and Barbie beatbox groove
An introduction to vocal percussion or beatboxing - using words with percussive qualities to imitate the different parts of a drum groove.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS1, KS2
- Musical Element: vocal percussion
- Year Group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Three-part (optional unison)
Numbers/intervals warm-up
This is a fun warm up to introduce the numbers and intervals in an octave.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: wide melodic leaps
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: Modern foreign languages, Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
Shakespeare’s Swingtime
This is a warm up that introduces ‘swing’ and step-clicking based on some of Shakespeare’s best-known words.
- Accompaniment: Accompanied
- Key Stage: KS2
- Musical Element: wide melodic leaps
- Year Group: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Subject: English, Music
- Style: Warm-up
- Vocal Format: Unison (optional two-part)
- Vocal Range: an 8ve
