This Music video introduces teachers to the South America unit, where pupils will learn to sing, play untuned and tuned percussion, and improvise within the salsa-inspired piece Vamos Let’s Go. The first lesson focuses on learning the vocal parts through call and response and practising the untuned percussion rhythms of clave, cowbell, shaker, and guiro. These activities help embed the structure of the song before moving on to tuned percussion in later lessons.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Music scheme – notes. It highlights how listening and repetition prepare children to read and play from staff notation. By exploring both melody and rhythm through sound before symbol, teachers can support all pupils in developing confidence and fluency with Latin American music traditions.

Music, KS2 Whole-class instrumental lessons, Instrumental lessons, Unit 3: South America (Instrumental lessons), Lesson 1: Vamos, let’s go!