Useful prompt for instrumental teachers to set targets for individual students and enable this to be reviewed by department teaching staff.

Guide and directed task working through using the Logic Piano Roll to input MIDI information.

Study of each individual listening element and discussion of associated terminology. This also includes a directed task that can be run with four extracts of your choice where students discuss it in terms of the studied elements.

Introduction to major, minor and chromatic scales based around the sea and composition for different 'atmospheres' and settings.

The picture shows a 1970s analogue synthesiser and encourages students to structure their essay responses to describe the functions shown along with considering the context and technical explanations associated with the synthesiser.

Simple grid to help analyse set works in terms of exam elements.

Space for 7 listening extracts to be discussed under exam headings melody, forces, rhythm, texture and harmony.

Some prompts for describing capture details when students are completing their logbook work.

A simple guide to help students follow the process to create a WAV or MP3 mixdown from their Logic Pro projects, ensuring that they don't make the common errors that often occur.

Ideas sheet to give students a starting point for creating lyrics. Uses 'A Day In The Life' as an example and includes brief information on the 'cut up' and 'fold in' methods used by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Grid for A1/Year 12 Music Tech students to reinforce definitions from early in the course.

Assessment grid from specification along with mark sheet to record comments; print onto folded A3 paper.

Outlines the difference between open back / closed back headphones Discusses the issues around translation Discusses the different speaker drivers

Guide to mono compatibility and correlation meter

An introduction to logarithmic scales for A Level Music Tech.

Originally designed for Edexcel A Level but suitable for all boards and all composition work. Suggested prompts to help with teacher feedback for composition, or could conceivably be used for peer feedback too.

PowerPoint, Key Words sheet and Handout associated with the basics of sound. Topics covered include frequency and amplitude, waveforms and phase. Any image sources are identified in slide notes.

Class performance activity for Pachelbel's Canon in D with modern pop song lyrics that fit over the chord progression. Used as a recap for Ground Bass but would also fit with introducing circles of fifths and harmonic progressions.

A one page guide to synthesis covering modular synthesis / analogue & digital / polyphony / LFOs / envelopes. Intended as a revision summary or starting point for A2 study but also applicable for AS students.

This checklist considers strategies students and teachers can use to improve their composition work. It uses simple musical terminology to encourage students to extend their writing, and thus enables teachers to use this as a partial assessment framework. Whilst it would not be advisable to use this as a sole resource as to assess student compositions, it does enable a framework to be put in place where students' work is extended and they can build independent learning skills by going through this process using self or peer assessment by which to consolidate their understanding of the principles and processes. A brief explanatory PowerPoint and reflection sheet is included to help students reflect on the processes discussed and how they could be applied and put in place.