Two booklets; student booklet and teacher booklet with answers and a few hyperlinks to YouTube videos for audio examples. The booklet is broken into chapters: pitch duration and rhythm time signatures and metre tonality harmony elements texture structure musical terms and signs aural test answer sheets Each chapter is broken down in to content based on grade 1 - 5 music theory. The content selected is aimed at teaching theory, listening and understanding music success. The booklet can be used in conjunction with existing schemes of learning, for setting homework or cover resources at various depths of understanding each topic.

Based on the ABRSM grade 1 syllabus, this is a ppt and workbook to guide students through grade 1 music theory. There are some worksheets I intend to include from other resources (named on the ppt) that are not included here. Also the practice exercises mentioned at the end of the booklet are from the ABRSM grade 1 theory book and the test is the ABRSM grade 1 test.

Performing and Composing Pop Songs

If you have some ukuleles and are not quite sure where to start with them then use this ppt as a starting point and amend as you need with your classes or use it for extra curricular.

Ascending vocal warm up in octaves. Goes up and down one note at a time and then a 4th leap up and back. Great for increasing vocal range, checking tuning and intonation, teaching interval of a 4th. Sing with primal sounds and vowels (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolling, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Goes up and down one note as a time, then interval of an octave and back.

Ascending vocal warm up in 5’s. Goes up and down one note at a time and then a 4th leap up and back. Great for increasing vocal range, checking tuning and intonation, teaching interval of a 4th. Sing with primal sounds and vowels (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolling, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Goes up and down one note as a time, then interval of a 5th and back.

Ascending vocal warm up in 6’s. Goes up and down one note at a time and then a 4th leap up and back. Great for increasing vocal range, checking tuning and intonation, teaching interval of a 4th. Sing with primal sounds and vowels (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolling, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Goes up and down one note as a time, then interval of a 6th and back.

Ascending vocal warm up in 7’s. Goes up and down one note at a time and then a 4th leap up and back. Great for increasing vocal range, checking tuning and intonation, teaching interval of a 4th. Sing with primal sounds and vowels (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolling, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Goes up and down one note as a time, then interval of a 7th and back.

Classroom vocal warm-up sheet music, mp3 and video. Can replace numbers with actions Can sing as a round Can sing in different languages Very versatile warm-up. 1 121 12321 1234321 123454321 12345654321 1234567654321 123456787654321

Good for quizzing pupils on musical details (tempo, swing, dynamics, accents, broken chords, up-beat…) Treble clef and bass clef notation with chords above.

Fun vocal warm-up for classroom. Sheet music, mp3 and video. Great for teaching intervals, word diction, staccato, key changes 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 1 1 5 4 5 3 5 2 5 1 5 4 5 3 2 1 1 5 4 5 3 5 2 5 1 5 4 5 6 7 8

Ascending vocal warm up in 4’s. Goes up and down one note at a time and then a 4th leap up and back. Great for increasing vocal range, checking tuning and intonation, teaching interval of a 4th. Sing with primal sounds and vowels (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolling, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Goes up and down one note as a time, then interval of a 4th and back.

Standard vocal warm up ascending in a range of thirds. Great for developing voices. Should be sung to basic and primal vocal sounds (humming, ooh, oh, ah, ee, with tongue rolls, lip flutters or raspberry blowing) Great for checking vocal range, increasing vocal range, checking pitch accuracy and teaching intervals of a third.

An accompanied version of Traditional Sussex Folk Song, ‘When the Spring Comes In’. Suitable for primary ks2 singing, ks3 singing or GCSE easy level difficulty. Voice and piano. Three verses. PDF score and mp3 audio.

I put this together fairly quickly for classroom use during the run up to Christmas. My guys are beginners and our ukes have red, yellow and green dots on them for the C, F and G chords. May not be suitable to accomplished ukulele-ists! Enjoy it for what it is, a nice light-hearted Christmas music lesson.

The Reggae and slavery document is just for info, something that may want to be discussed with a class. Otherwise, this is a simple presentation on Reggae, the musical devices, history and religion associated with it and instruction on playing Three Little Birds on the ukulele. I can't upload Sibelius files to TES but I also have melody parts for instrumentalists. Please message me for them.

Figuring out angles missing internal angles in triangles, circles and four sided shapes. This was made for a low ability level 2-4 group. The slides with white backgrounds were printed and students worked in groups with 15 mins per shape.

Resources for developing class or group ensemble using Uptown Funk. I'm using this as a year 8 intro to Musical Futures which we do in year 9. Students pick some options in year 9. I print the ppt slides for keyboard, bass, uke etc and set up a practice room for each instrument. They independently learn the parts in groups from the help sheets. Then they come together as a class. I see y8 once a fortnight for 100 mins which is why there are 3 lessons for the term. You may wish to bulk out more if you teach once a week or more. Take or leave the theory. I only have it with the scheme because we start grade 1 theory in year 9 and again, trying to prep students for if they pick us as an option. I adapted the booklet from downloading it from TES a while ago. Wish I could remember who from because it's brilliant. Please use and adapt as required and enjoy. Our kids are loving it.

2 student resources for deciphering what notes to play when presented with something like Dbm. Good for independent learning. Also now added piano notation for these chords. They are on a sibelius file.

Designed as in intro to Sibelius in year 9 . Students create their own backing track to a Beatles song. I have a Beatles piano book (not included in the resources I'm afraid to say) and the students choose one of the songs to work on. They have to copy the sheet music into Sibelius to create their own backing track, then give a performance using any instrument other than piano. We also work on ABRSM theory during year 9 which is what the ppt is referring to when it says theory. This is a very adaptable resource to be whatever you want it to be. Enjoy!