Simple melody and harmony when listening to a piece of music. We are really hearing a blend of two things:

1. Melody. The main tune which is the bit our ear is drawn to and the part you usually end of humming after listening to a song. A melody is made up of a combination of the pitch of the notes and the rhythm they are written in.

2. Harmony. The chords that add the colour and emotion to the tune is called harmony. You might not be as aware of it as the melody, but it’s usually the harmony that lets us know whether a piece or a song is happy, sad, scary, exciting, angry or funny. Some of the most famous songs of all time have been written based around only 3 or 4 simple chords and often quite simple melodies but it’s the way these parts work together that make the songs or pieces unique!

The terrifying music from the film theme JAWS is completely conveyed through 2 notes played one after the other and then speeding up! Without this music the film would be a lot less scary!

Rhythm. When people start to play an instrument of any type one of the most difficult things to do is play in time! When you write your first lyrics relating to the title ‘Let’s Laugh’ make sure that you can repeat a constant steady beat for example with simple words.