It’s the Great Martian Bake Off! Or at least until Martin almost sets the studio on fire…All seems to be lost until Cara gets an idea about how her co-host’s love for bread canhelp them with rhythm.
INTERIOR STUDIO - DAY - MARTIN, wearing an apron, chef’s hat and a flour covered face stands behind the counter, his brown briefcase sitting on top. Cheesy music and logo ‘The Great Martian Bake Scoff’.
MARTIN: Hi and welcome back to the Great Martian Bake Scoff, I’m your host Martin and today we’re baking bread that’s out of this world! There’s so many things you can do with bread: bread and butter, bread and jam, bread and peanut butter…
Martin’s briefcase begins to smoke.
MARTIN: Toast! Cheese on toast, marmalade on toast, honey on toast, sandwiches! Toasted sandwiches…
Smoke is billowing out of the briefcase.
MARTIN: Bread sandwiches! That’s two pieces of bread and another slice of bread in between!
The Smoke alarm goes off.
MARTIN: Uh oh.
Cara enters with a fire extinguisher and puts out the briefcase.
CARA: Martin what are you doing?!
Martin opens the briefcase and pulls out a charred loaf of bread.
MARTIN: I was trying to bake bread.
CARA: On the surface of the sun?!
Martin looks into his briefcase.
MARTIN: Maybe? I’m not too sure what’s in there.
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CARA: Wait a minute, are you recording a video?
Martin looks sheepish.
CARA: Martin! Here I am struggling to think of an idea for our video this week and you’re off doing your own thing.
MARTIN: Sorry Cara, I just wanted to try something out.
Cara looks upset. Martin gives her his towel.
MARTIN: Here, take my lucky towel, not that it’s brought me much luck. I’m terrible at baking.
CARA: What is this?
MARTIN: Great Breads of Ireland. There’s Wheaten.
CARA: Like Wheaten Bread?
MARTIN: Yes, but when you say it like that, it sounds completely different.
Martin claps out the rhythm of wheaten as two crotchets.
MARTIN:(clapping) Wheat-en.
Cara taps out the rhythm of wheaten bread as two quavers and a crotchet.
CARA:(tapping the counter) Wheat-en Bread.
MARTIN: Totally different!
CARA: Martin, this is it, this is what our video is going to be about today, rhythm! And your towel is going to help.
MARTIN: How so?
CARA: Pick a bread on it?
MARTIN: I like this game! Potato bread.
Cara taps out the rhythm of potato bread as three quavers and a crotchet.
CARA:(tapping on the counter) Po-ta-to bread.
Martin is stuffing his face with potato bread.
CARA: Where did that come from?
Martin, face full of food, points at his suitcase.
CARA: Of course. What else is on this towel? Fruit soda?
Martin, mouth full of bread, nods.
CARA: So that would be…
Cara claps out the rhythm of fruit soda as a crotchet and two quavers.
CARA:(clapping) Fruit so-da.
Martin places an egg timer on the counter.
MARTIN: Egg-cellent. Shall we see how many breads we can name in 30 seconds?
CARA: You’re on!
Martin sets the egg timer, creating a metronome tick to their rhythms as they tap through the names of different breads.
MARTIN: Ve-da!
CARA: Barrn-brack!
MARTIN: Box-ty!
CARA: Blaa!
MARTIN: Tuuuuurn ov-er!
CARA: Bel-fast bap!
MARTIN: So-da far-rel!
CARA: Ermmm…
MARTIN: Time’s almost up!
CARA: Toast!
The alarm goes off. Cara smacks the table in delight!
CARA: That was great!
Martin looks sad.
CARA: What’s wrong?
MARTIN: It’s just, all these great breads of Ireland, and I can’t bake any of them.
CARA: Hmmmmm, I have an idea!!
INTERIOR STUDIO - DAY - Cara and Martin stand side by side behind the counter. They are wearing aprons and chef hats.
CARA: So! Today we’ve been looking at all the breads of Ireland.
MARTIN: We’ve been using syllables that make up the names of the different types of bread to learn about rhythm.
CARA: And now, we’re going to use everything we’ve learned about bread.
MARTIN: And rhythm!
CARA: And put them together and bake our very own loaf of bread! Ready?
Martin nods.
CARA: And a one, a two, a one, two, three, four!
Cara and Martin launch into the episode song. As they sing, they hold up different types of bread - lots of expression and actions. The rhythm of the syllables is matched on the bottom of the screen with images of bread, corresponding to each note head - introducing the idea of notation and visual symbols representing music.
Key words - rhythm, syllables, tapping, hitting, clapping, clicking, singing, humming, words, tune, breathing, actions, notation and symbols.
Finally, Martin and Cara use what they’ve learned to mix a loaf of bread. Martin puts it in the briefcase and moments later pulls out a perfect loaf. He is delighted.
CARA: Until next time!
Martin holds up his loaf of bread.
CARA AND MARTIN: Bye!/Rye!
THE END.
Rhythm
Rhythm is a pattern of sounds of different lengths across time.
These sounds can be long or short and can be created by clapping, clicking, tapping, speakingor singing.
When playing or singing a rhythm, it’s important to have a steady pulse like ametronome (a tool that can be used to help play musical instruments in time), a timer or a friend tapping a continuous beat.
Vocal & Body Sounds
Vocal and body sounds are sounds that are created using our bodies and voices.
We can speak, shout, sing, hum, hiss and create so many other sounds with our voices.
Our bodies can be used like percussion. We can clap, tap, click and stomp to make a wholerange of sounds using just ourselves.
Clap it Out
With a partner, try clapping out the name of a friend or family member and see if they can guesswho it is. Use the syllables of the name as a rhythm. For example, Jes-si-ca, Mi-chael.
Using Symbols
Pick an item in the room and clap out the rhythm of its syllables.
Then, make a picture using symbols or images to represent each syllable.
Longer rhythm sounds could be larger, and smaller rhythm sounds could be smaller.
If the pattern is fast, the pictures could be close together, and if the pattern is slow, the pictures could be spread further apart.
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