Stunning Value! A bumper pack of 14 worksheets (or funsheets) for useful coverwork, homework or revision suitable for KS3 (yrs 7-9), or for checking basic knowledge at the start of a GCSE music course, for those with less musical background. What Does It Do? This resource tests the basics in an informal way and extends and explores knowledge of each of the elements, giving opportunities for students to apply their knowledge in creative ways - great preparation for a variety of composing, performing or listening tasks. ALTERNATIVELY, use this resource with the associated set of Elements Of Music Factsheets to create a totally self-supporting set of 14/28 activities, where no prior knowledge is needed to complete each task (great for cover work where no specialist teacher is available). What's In It? 2 worksheets on each of the Elements - pitch, tempo, timbre, duration, dynamics and texture, plus 2 bonus sheets on The Elements. 14 worksheets in all, as well as teacher notes and suggestions for use. Each worksheet ends with a more open-ended task which ensures that coverwork does not run out before the end of the lesson, but these tasks could also be set as a separate homework task - giving 28 short but meaningful KS3 homework tasks in total - enough for a whole academic year!

2 separate WORKSHEETS on the Elements of Music (covering Pitch, Timbre, Tempo, Texture, Duration and Dynamics) plus 1 FACTSHEET. Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

This KS3 Worksheet (also useful for revision at KS4) covers different aspects of chords, specifically triads, major and minor chords. Useful for homework or coverwork or in class to support/revise recent learning about chords. There is also a chords factsheet which can be used in combination with this worksheet, to produce a totally self-supporting resource for independent learning (eg homework), or for a cover situation where a specialist teacher is not available. A compilation resource including this sheet called "Semitones, Scales and Chords" contains 10 sheets in total (5 worksheets and 5 accompanying factsheets) and is available as a premium resource for only £3.99

Puzzles for revision of Timbre - one of the elements of music. Particularly useful at KS3 for homework, cover or revision as well as use in class. Also KS4 for revision of basics at start of the GCSE course. Formerly only available from the lightmusicresources website, this resource has been downloaded all over the world from Australia to international schools in Russia and the United Arab Emirates. This worksheet is one of a set of 14 Elements of Music worksheets - the full set is available for only £3.99 in the paid resources section. Each sheet contains a number of short questions and one longer open-ended task - to suit cover lessons of different lengths. Some schools set the short questions and the longer task as two separate homework tasks, meaning that this 14-part set of worksheets could potentially provide one year-group with homework for an entire academic year!

UNBELIEVABLE VALUE! Mostly aimed at KS3 (UK age 11-14), many of these starter and activities and associated teaching points/discussion stimuli are also adaptable for upper primary and even for KS4/5 use too. Actually contains considerably more than 50 separate activities/starters, with many possible variations listed on most activities, and a Bonus section with additional seasonal starters etc. Please note - there are no powerpoints for this resource - simply because there are 50+ creative, interactive activities which DO NOT NEED powerpoints. Many of the activities work well even if you are displaced from a specialist music room (eg during exam periods) and even if you have no specialist equipment available. I mention this because a 3* review below complained that there were no powerpoints - even though if they had looked through the resource they would have realised that none of these very practical activities need powerpoints, nor would they benefit from them! (It would be great if someone could review this resource after actually reading/using it) More than 50 of these sold in the last couple of years and no other negative comments. Many of the activities have been used successfully by myself as head of department and by other colleagues in several different secondary schools, even before this resource appeared on the TES website. Some starters/activities are standalone ideas related to different music skills and topics, but several chapters contain a sequence of starters or activities which can be used in consecutive lessons to develop a particular area of skill or understanding. Most are very practical in nature, all have been tried and tested in lessons over the last 20 years, and all will relate to a number of commonly-taught topics in the Music National Curriculum. Chapters include Pulse and Rhythm Activities, Timekeeper Activities, Drum Kit Activities (no drum kit required!), One2Eight Activities (uses whiteboard only), Score-reading Activities, Composition Activities, Orchestral Mime activities and Musical Instrument Activities, as well as a bonus section which includes seasonal activities. Most use no specialist equipment or only things found as standard in every music classroom. Many of these are completely original activities - you will not find them published anywhere else - but they have proved very popular with students in a number of schools over the years! Please leave feedback when you have used them. Thank you.

Suitable for younger end of KS3 (UK aged 11-14), 8 pages of ideas for Pulse and Rhythm-related Starters or longer activities for use within a lesson, with additional suggestions for links to topics or skills from your scheme of work, or to pieces of music. Tried and tested over a numbers of years and especially popular with students in the 11-12 age-range. You may also be interested in “Timekeeper Starters and Activities” or “50 Music Starters, Activities and Plenaries”. Please leave feedback when you’ve tried using the activities. Thank you. Enjoy!

Great for instrumental students - especially piano and keyboard players or those who need some theory for KS3 music or GCSE. SCALES Write the title of the scale you are learning above one of the keyboard diagrams and then draw coloured dots in the notes you have used on one of the diagrams OR alterntively shade in the whole of each key used. This gives you a visual way of revising and memorising scales, even away from the keyboard. Add more scales as you learn them. You could also - mark in the semitones with brackets , write in the finger numbers below or above (or above for RH, below for LH). For melodic minor scales, use two of the diagrams which are side by side across the whole page, to see the ascending and descending versions. CHORDS Draw coloured dots in the keys or shade the whole keys of the notes which belong to each chord you have learned. Useful for learning about major and minor chords for keyboard players or basic theory, for mapping arpeggios, diminished or dominant 7ths for piano exams, or for mapping out complex chords eg for A-level harmony or jazz harmony.

Introducing the basics of chords (triads), both major and minor 2 sheets: FACTSHEET with facts and explanation (great for revision, or as visual aid to students when learning about this topic.) WORKSHEET with questions and "fill-in" sections (use as diagnostic test, homework sheet or to test revision) or USE BOTH TOGETHER for a self-supporting resource for cover, homework or revision

7 Photocopiable Factsheets or Revisionsheets on each of the Elements of Music - Pitch, Tempo, Timbre, Texture, Duration and Dynamics. Use to support regular classwork or exam revision OR use alongside my "Elements of Music" bumper pack of worksheets (14 worksheets for cover or revisions - or up to 28 short homework tasks, suitable for KS3) to make completely self-supporting cover resources without any need for prior knowledge of the topics, or specialist teacher supervision. Easy to read fonts. Clear and concise explanations. Great value for use at KS3, or to support weaker students at the start of KS4!

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on TIMBRE (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on TEMPO (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

Great value resource with 10 sheets included. Consists of FIVE factsheets with FIVE associated worksheets. Using the factsheets and worksheets together potentially provides a resource which students can use with minimal teacher input - useful in a cover or homework situation. For basic AND more challenging Theory for KS3 (UK age 11-14)) OR basic revision at the start of GCSE/A-level course (UK age14-18) for those with little background in music theory OR extension work for more advanced KS2 musicians (UK age10-11). Includes sharps and flats, tones and semitones, major scales and other scale-types, as well as chords (triads). Factsheets can also be copied and handed out for revision purposes. Worksheets could also be used (without factsheets) as a diagnostic test, or for informal testing of revision.

2 sheets: FACTSHEET with facts and explanation (great for revision, or as visual aid to students when learning about this topic.) WORKSHEET with questions and "fill-in" sections (use as diagnostic test, homework sheet or to test revision) or USE BOTH TOGETHER for a self-supporting resource for cover, homework or revision

2 sheets: FACTSHEET with facts and explanation (great for revision, or as visual aid to students when learning about this topic.) WORKSHEET with questions and "fill-in" sections (use as diagnostic test, homework sheet or to test revision) or USE BOTH TOGETHER for a self-supporting resource for cover, homework or revision

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on TEXTURE (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on DYNAMICS (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

4 sheets in total: 2 FACTSHEETS with facts and explanation (great for revision, or as visual aid to students when learning about this topic.) 2 WORKSHEETS with questions and "fill-in" sections (use as diagnostic test, homework sheet or to test revision) or USE WORKSHEET+ FACTSHEET TOGETHER for a self-supporting resource for cover, homework or revision

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on PITCH (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

This 4-page resource on the Historical Periods of Music contains 2 separate resources – one for students taking ABRSM exams (where the examples will be played on the piano only), and one suitable for students taking GCSE or A-level Music, where examples could include many different types of instrumentation, or vocal music. Key features are identified which help students to choose the correct historical period for the music they are hearing, and some examples of composers are included in each section. A supplementary page is also included, covering the Medieval and Renaissance periods, since these are found in the syllabus of some of the exam boards but not others. Encourage students to identify the historical periods of musical extracts with this sheet in front of them initially, in order to familiarise themselves with the sorts of features they need to listen out for. ABRSM students could look at the pieces they have been learning and try to identify the historical periods they are from, before progressing to identifying the periods aurally, as part of the aural tests (from Grade 5* onwards) Useful for introducing comparison of the historical periods of music, for practice in identifying them from listening examples and also for revision purposes (history of music). Please leave feedback if you find this resource useful. *syllabus information correct at the time of publishing

2 separate WORKSHEETS plus 1 FACTSHEET on DURATION (one of the Elements of Music). Use them together to make a self-supporting COVER or HOMEWORK resource. Alternatively use the factsheet for revision, and the worksheets as informal tests. Suitable for KS3 (UK age 11-14) and upper KS2 (UK age 9-11), or possibly for GCSE students with gaps in their background, at the very start of their course. All sheets are produces in easy-to-read fonts. Each worksheet has a final open-ended and creative question to allow for students working at different rates in a cover lesson. If using these sheets for homework, each worksheet could contain enough material for two short homework tasks - one to complete most of the sheet, and the second homework to complete the open-ended final task. These worksheets were written by me but were formerly only available on the Light Music Resources website, and have been downloaded all over the world from the UK and US to international schools in Australia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Please leave a review if you find these resources useful, or if you have found other ways to use them.

This 1-page resource on the Historical Periods of Music contains detailed information on the Historical Periods of Music for students taking ABRSM exams (where the examples will be played on the piano only). An alternative version of this resource is available for students taking GCSE or A-level Music, where examples could include many different types of instrumentation, or vocal music. I also have a combined Historical Periods resource which contains both versions, plus some supplementary information. Key features are identified which help students to choose the correct historical period for the music they are hearing, and some examples of composers are included in each section. Encourage students to identify the historical periods of musical extracts with this sheet in front of them initially, in order to familiarise themselves with the sorts of features they need to listen out for. ABRSM students could look at the pieces they have been learning and try to identify the historical periods those are from, before progressing to identifying the periods aurally, as part of the aural tests (from Grade 5* onwards) Useful for introducing comparisons of the historical periods of music and also for revision purposes. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. *syllabus information correct at the time of publishing