1. Performance and introduction
This page guides you through all videos and resources to explore the song 'live more & love more'.
Start by watching the BBC Singers' performance and Shivani's introduction, then work your way through the activity films.
Once you're ready to learn 'live more & love more', you'll find scores and audio tracks to support you in teaching this song to your students.
Aimed at KS3 students in England and Northern Ireland, Progression Step 4 in Wales and 3rd Level in Scotland.
BBC Singers, Dominika Mak (piano) and Owain Park (conductor) perform 'live more & love more', at BBC Maida Vale Studios
[BBC Get Singing intro music]
♪Since I've gotten older♪
♪I’ve realised we all care about things that don’t really matter.♪
♪We’re just told it does♪
♪And now we’re all tryin’ to keep our heads above the water.♪
♪But what if we don’t wanna?♪
♪If there’s something♪
♪you wanna do, just do it.♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪Don’t let your head stop♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪your heart from moving.♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪If there’s someone you wanna♪
♪doo♪
♪talk to, talk to them.♪
♪doo doo doo♪
♪Who knows who we’d be♪
♪doo-doo♪
♪if we just♪
♪live more and love more,♪
♪we all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪When we’re not♪
-♪here any more,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪it all comes down to who we were♪
-♪doo♪
-♪and what we stood for,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪not what we had,♪
-♪doo♪
-♪and, not where we lived.♪
-♪doo♪
♪doo♪
-♪So when we’re told it does,♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪doo♪
♪maybe then we’ll♪
-♪see we don’t just have to keep♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪our heads above the water.♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪doo♪
-♪Not if we don’t wanna.♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪Not if we don’t wanna.♪
♪If there’s♪
-♪something you wanna do, just do it. ♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪Don’t let your head stop your♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪heart from moving.♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪If there’s someone you wanna♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪talk to, talk to them.♪
-♪doo doo♪
-♪Who knows who we’d be if we just♪
-♪doo doo♪
♪live more and love more,♪
♪we all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪So hug your kids,♪
♪tell them you love them,♪
♪have some heart,♪
♪but make sure it’s open,♪
♪take that risk,♪
♪’cause time gets stolen,♪
♪maybe speak less and listen more.♪
♪’Cause life’s too short,♪
♪you only have one,♪
♪it might sound cliché,♪
♪but your life can start when you choose it to.♪
♪When you choose it to.♪
♪’Cause if there’s something you, wanna do, just do it.♪
♪Don’t let your head stop your heart from moving.♪
♪If there’s someone you wanna talk to, talk to them.♪
♪Who knows who we’d be if we just♪
♪live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
Shivani Rattan (singer and vocal leader) introduces 'live more & love more'
Shivani:
I'm so pleased that you've joined me today to do some singing. The song we're looking at is “live more & love more” by Cat Burns. You might have heard of Cat. She's a pop singer who got her big break on social media. She celebrates difference and she champions positivity, which is certainly at the heart of this song. We're going to be singing Hannah King's arrangement of “live more & love more”. Unlike the original, this version is for three groups of voices: upper voices, which will sing the top line of the song (also known as sopranos); middle voices (you might have heard them called altos) and finally lower voices (or basses). “live more & love more” usessome unexpected and really interesting rhythms. So we're going to have a go at some of these in our exercises today. That will mean that you're familiar with them when you sing the whole song.
2. About the song
- Title: live more & love more
- Songwriters: Cat Burns, Jordan Mckenzie Riley and Gerard David O’Connell
- Arranged for BBC Get Singing by: Hannah King
- Orignal release date: 2023
- Accompaniment: Piano
- Duration: 3'00''
3. Activity films
1. Vocal warm-up
2. Singing the chorus
3. Exploring the song
Activities to warm-up with Shivani
[BBC Get Singing intro music]
Shivani:
The canteen might not feel like the typical place to make music, but we really can sing anywhere and we've grouped you like this to see if we can make the most of the acoustic and experiment with what sound we get out of a different space. When we sing, it's like a workout and you wouldn't run a 5k or play sports without warming up.
So that's what we're gonna do first. Warm up our bodies and our voices ready to sing really healthily. So let's get warmed up with some sliding scales.
So first of all, can you try an ♪ooh-ooh♪ Try that.
Young People:
♪ooh-ooh♪
Shivani:
Nice, with the most beautiful sound that you can make, and see if you can go and hear. I want to hear all of those little notes in between. ♪ooh-ooh♪ Try.
Young People:
♪ooh-ooh♪
Shivani:
Beautiful! I love that. How about an ♪ahh-ahh♪
Young People:
♪ahh-ahh♪
Shivani:
♪ohh-ohh♪
Young People:
♪ohh-ohh♪
Shivani:
Well done. Let's put some resonant consonants to these. Can you give me a ♪vvv vvv vvv♪
Young People:
♪vvv vvv vvv♪
Shivani:
Nice and energised from down here.♪vvv vvv vvv♪
Young People:
♪vvv vvv vvv♪
Shivani:
♪mmm♪
Young People:
♪mmm♪
Shivani:
Yeah, like you've had the best lunch ever. ♪mmm♪
Young People:
♪mmm♪
Shivani:
And the last one is ♪lll♪
Young People:
♪lll♪
Shivani:
Let's try ♪vvv-vvv♪
Young People:
♪vvv-vvv♪
Shivani:
♪mmm-mmm♪
Young People:
♪mmm-mmm♪
Shivani:
♪lll-lll♪
Young People:
♪lll-lll♪
Shivani:
Fab job. Well done. Some of the words in our song are “live more love more.”Can you say “live”
Young People:
Live.
Shivani:
More.
Young People:
More.
Shivani:
Love.
Young People:
Love.
Shivani:
Love.
Young People:
Love.
Shivani:
More.
Young People:
More.
Shivani:
Let’s try warming up with some of these words. ♪Live♪ Try that.
Young People:
♪Live♪
Shivani:
I want to hear all of those slidey notes in between as well. ♪Love♪
Young People:
♪Love♪
Shivani:
♪More♪
Young People:
♪More♪
Shivani:
Beautiful. Really nice. Well done.
Learn to add harmony with Shivani
[BBC Get Singing intro music]
Shivani:
Let's try a little section of the chorus from our song “live more & love more”. The tune goes like this: ♪Live more and love more. We all just need to livemore and love more. We all just need to♪
Have a listen. ♪Live more and love more.♪
♪Try that.♪
All together:
♪Live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
Let's break it down even further. Can you try? ♪Nah nah nah nah♪
Young People:
♪Nah nah nah nah♪
Shivani:
Lovely. ♪Live more and love more.♪♪Try that.♪
Young People:
♪Live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
Beautiful.
Young People:
♪Live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
♪We all just need to♪ Try it.
Young People:
♪We all just need to♪
All together:
♪We all just need to♪
Shivani:
♪We all just need to♪
Young People:
♪We all just need to♪
Shivani:
♪Live more and love more. We all just need to♪
Young People:
♪Live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
One more time.
Young People:
♪We all just need to live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
Beautiful. I'm gonna sing a different line while you sing this one. So try it again for me. I'm going to sing this bass line. ♪Off you go.♪
All together:
[Harmonising in two parts] ♪Live more and love more.♪
Shivani:
♪Ohh ohh♪
Young People:
♪We all just need to♪
All together:
[Harmonising in two parts] ♪Live more & love more♪
Shivani:
Beautiful. The bass line goes like this: ♪Live more and love more. Ohh. Live more and love more. Ohh♪How many clicks did I do?
Young People:
Four.
Shivani:
There were four clicks. Fantastic. So let's try: ♪Live more…Ready off you go.♪
Young People:
♪Live more and love more. Ohh. Live more and love more. Ohh.♪
Shivani:
Fantastic. That's really nice ♪ohh.♪ It's got this long note that ends up clashing with the tune and it sounds really nice with the harmony. It's kind of like a drone pedal. It sort of sits on this one note, and then we've got this big ♪ohh♪ sound. Can you give me an ♪ohh♪?
Young People:
♪ohh♪
Shivani:
Try it with a punch as well. ♪ohh♪
Young People:
♪ohh♪
Shivani:
That sounds cool when you do that. Nice. Let's try it.
Young People:
♪Live more and love more.♪
All together:
♪ohh♪
Young People:
♪Live more and love more. Ohh. Live more and love more. Ohh.♪
Shivani:
Beautiful. So with the tune, it's going to sound really nice.
Body percussion to learn song rhythms
[BBC Get Singing intro music]
Shivani:
Let's have a go at a body percussion exercise that's gonna help us with the rhythms of our song. There are a few elements that we need for this. So can you show me a click?
Young People:
Click.
Shivani:
Right, and a stomp?
Young People:
Stomp.
Shivani:
And show me these arms. I'm kind of doing these robot arms switching from left to right. Great stuff. That looks good. Okay, show me a click, click, stomp. Your turn.
Young People:
Click, click, stomp.
Shivani:
Oh, I like that we’re saying it all together. That's really going to help us embody it. So try again. Click, click, stomp. Your turn.
Young People:
Click, click, stomp.
Shivani:
Nice. You can mirror me.
So it’s gonna go: Click, click, stomp. Hand, stomp. Your turn.
Young People:
Click, click, stomp. Hand, stomp.
Shivani:
Awesome. The next bar goes: hand, stomp, hand, hand. Try that.
Young People:
Hand, stomp, hand, hand.
Shivani:
So all together we've got click, click, stomp. Hand, stomp. Hand, stomp. Hand, hand. Your turn.
Young People:
Click, click, stomp. Hand, stomp. Hand, stomp. Hand, hand.
Shivani:
Great stuff. Let's try. Can you show me your hand over this one side? And we're to add to this rhythm by going knee, hand, knee. Try that. Knee, hand, knee. Good. And again. Knee, hand, knee. And over the other side we switch over and we do knee, hand, knee.
So all in all have a listen to the rhythm. We're gonna have knee, hand, knee. knee, hand, knee. knee, hand, knee. Can you try with me? Off we go. Knee, hand, knee. Say with me.
All together:
Knee, hand, knee. Knee, hand, knee.
Shivani:
Great stuff. So we're going to add that click,click, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Your turn.
Young People:
Click, click, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp.
Shivani:
The next bar goes knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee. Switch. Knee, hand, knee. Let's try that.
All together:
Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee. Knee, hand, knee.
Shivani:
Awesome. From the beginning goes like this: Click, click, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee. Knee, hand, knee. Nice and steady. Off we go.
All together:
Click, click, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee. Knee, hand, knee.
Shivani:
And again!
All together:
Click, click, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee, stomp. Knee, hand, knee. Knee, hand, knee.
Shivani:
Should we try it without saying now? See if we can say it in our heads. Off we go.
[Body percussion sounds] Do it without me this time.[Body percussion sounds] Fantastic. Well done for internalising that so well.
Say, for me: “life's too short. You only have one.” Your turn.
Young People:
Life's too short. You only have one.
Shivani:
It might sound cliché, but your life can start when you. Try it. Off you go.
Young People:
It might sound cliché, but your life can start when you.
Shivani:
Start when you. Try that.
Young People:
Start when you.
Shivani:
Your life can start when you. Life's too short, you only have one. It might sound cliché,but your life can start when you. Let's try it now.
All together:
Life’s too short. You only have one. It might sound cliché, but your life can start when you.
Shivani:
♪Life's too short. You only have one. It might sound cliché but your life can start when you. Life's too short. You only have one.♪ Try that.
Young People:
♪Life's too short. You only have one. It might sound cliché but your life can start when you.♪
Shivani:
Have a listen. ♪Your life can start when you.♪
Young People:
♪Your life can start when you.♪
Shivani:
♪Your life can start when you.♪
Young People:
♪Your life can start when you.♪
Shivani:
♪Your life can start when you.♪
Young People:
♪Your life can start when you.♪
Shivani:
♪Life's too short. You only have one. It might sound cliché but your life can start when you.♪
Young People:
♪Life's too short. You only have one. It might sound cliché but your life can start when you.♪
Shivani:
Fantastic. We can sing this a couple of times over. I'm going to be one team. You're gonna be the other. So you guys start and I'll be second. ♪Off you go.♪
All together:
[In a round] ♪Life's too short.♪[In a round] ♪Life’s too short.♪
Shivani:
♪Life’s too short.♪
Young People:
♪You only have one.♪
Shivani:
♪You only have one.♪
Young People:
♪You only have one.♪
Shivani:
♪You only have one.♪
Young People:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Shivani:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Young People:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Shivani:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Young People:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Shivani:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Young People:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Shivani:
♪but your life can start when you.♪
Young People:
♪Life's too short.♪
Shivani:
♪Life’s too short.♪
Young People:
♪Life’s too short.♪
Shivani:
♪Life’s too short.♪
Young People:
♪You only have one.♪
Shivani:
♪You only have one.♪
Young People:
♪You only have one.♪
Shivani:
♪You only have one.♪
Young People:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Shivani:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Young People:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Shivani:
♪It might sound cliché♪
Young People:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Shivani:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Young People:
♪but your life can start when you♪
Shivani:
Great job. What a fantastic session. Thank you so much for joining in with me, everybody and well done for warming up with me and hopefully those rhythmic exercises are going to get you feeling really confident with what's to come with the full arrangement of “live more & love more”.
[Applause and cheering]
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