Music-Making 'From the Off' in Transition Year

Single quavers are actually more advanced.

Create a polyrhythmic composition using crotchets and pairs of quavers!

Did you know that...

... in Chrome Music Lab - Song Maker you can choose Major, Chromatic and Pentatonic Scales?

Harmony: - Chords I and V - Cadences - 'Endings' - Chord Progressions

Melody-Writing: - Crotchets and pairs of quavers - Pentatonic scale - Strong Endings - Singing the melody - Good and bad leaps - Hand signs

Read and perform rhythms using Body Percussion

Music-making 'from the off' in Transition Year

Pentatonic Scale is used in these songs: - Amazing Grace - Cotton Eyed Joe - Stairway to Heaven - Auld Lang Syne -100 Hungarian Folksongs (Kodály)

Pentatonic scale is used in these pieces: La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin - Debussy Mother Goose Suite - Ravel 24 Little Canons on the Black Keys - Kodály

- Awareness of Beat - Ostinato as a Repeated Pattern - Multiple Layers - Backing Track for a Rap

- Crotchets / Pairs of Quavers - Visual Scaffolds - Pentatonic Scale: A Powerful Tool

- Collaborative Practice - Aural Skills - A Kinesthetic Approach

- Tonic Solfa: A Vehicle for Singing - Variations in Tempo - Chord Progressions

Listen to the sounds on our multi-track 'machine' - What comes in first? - What happens in each layer? - What do all the layers sound like together? - In which order do they leave?

Listen to the Pop 'set' works - What comes in first? - Where does this happen? - What instruments/vocals leave? - When do they leave?

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