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Using The Gamelan App

The document outlines a 3 period lesson plan to teach students how to play instruments in a Gamelan ensemble. Students will learn the instrumental parts of different categories - melody, structural, and ornamenting. They will use iPad applications to play different assigned parts, such as the sarong (melody), kethuk and kempyang (structural), and kempul (ornamenting). The lesson aims to have students play a Gamelan song together as a class by learning their individual instrumental parts.

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Using The Gamelan App

The document outlines a 3 period lesson plan to teach students how to play instruments in a Gamelan ensemble. Students will learn the instrumental parts of different categories - melody, structural, and ornamenting. They will use iPad applications to play different assigned parts, such as the sarong (melody), kethuk and kempyang (structural), and kempul (ornamenting). The lesson aims to have students play a Gamelan song together as a class by learning their individual instrumental parts.

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Wednesday, 27 January 2021

S2 Gamelan Lesson Outline

Duration: 3 periods
Prep: 1 Day before: send email / remind students via FT to download applications for
music lesson
1. Trigger/Recap
• Students to sit in classroom seating arrangement
• Recap: Mention to students that performance analysis concluded with
• Identifying different categories: Melody, Ornamenting, Structural, Timekeepers
• 3 kinds of gamelan
• Gamelan performed at weddings and alongside wayang kulit
• SG context: Gamelan melayu used to be performed alongside Kuda Kepang
2. Lesson Outcome/Aim
• To play a gamelan song as a class
• Different instruments in the ensemble therefore learning all instrumental parts
• Expectations:
• Teacher talking, students listening and performing together. If too much talking,
group discussion delayed and students will not sure what to do during group work.
• Really need to talk >> whisper. Conversation MUST not disrupt others or teacher’s
instructions. Repeatedly disruptive, sent out.
3. Class work (2 periods)
• Give out the worksheet. Write name, class, index number and group number, top RH
corner
• Mention that the worksheet is a score, aka set of instructions that students need to
know how to interpret.
• Introduce video as interpretation of their score for three of the sections of a Gamelan
ensemble. Only required to perform 3 categories of instruments. Play video
• Introduce score:
• Title: Lancaran indicates the form, Kotek means “cackle/laugh”.
• BUKA is played by everyone in the ensemble, is not the start of the song.
• In between numbers, there are dots that teacher will refer to as ‘rest’. So if we read
the Buka at a steady speed, it would sound like “rest 3 rest 6 rest 3 rest 6 etc” [Can
recite the buka as a class before starting the playing] Teacher can set the tempo or
skip this entirely.
• Give out iPads. Those who have downloaded the app in their phones can switch on the
phone, those without can line up on teacher’s left to collect iPad. Give out iPads.
• If there is a shortage, address responsibility to submit a request as made known via
email.

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• Show password for iPad and setting instructions on the screen. Those who are ready,
open “gamelan sarong” and edit the settings. If you are ahead, you can try to play
through the buka.
• Teacher to check that settings are right by checking if the scale is slendro or pelog. Ask
for number of notes.
• PLAY MELODY Teacher demonstrate the Buka. Screen shows score. Students play after.
If students can manage, then play the first two lines together.
• Mention that students playing the sarong and the slethum will play this part - the
melody.
• Instruct students to place the iPad down and write in Kethuk + Kempyang part.
• PLAY STRUCTURAL Mention that Kethuk is notated with a + and kempyang with a -.
Teacher demonstrates once. Check that students know that structural instruments line
up with balungan.
• Add in Kenong. Repeat process.
• Teacher plays melody and students play structural part.
• Mention that student playing Kethuk, kempyang and kenong is all by 1 person.
• Put iPads down, write in Kempul. Slide change of settings. (If there is time, can do half
the class kenong half the class Kempul)
• Mention that 1 students plays kempul part
• PLAY ORNAMENTING iPad down, write in, settings on screen. Change to peking. Explain
doubling. Repeat process.
4. Group work (1 period)
• Get into groups and face the front.
• Assign someone to play each instrument. Try playing together. Teacher comes around
to check. After giving green light, students can notate out the second half of the song.
Check with teacher and then start rehearsing.

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