High school music technology resources

Suitable for a pairs task on keyboard in a KS3 Music Classroom. I am currently using music technology with Year 8 music classes to create a piece of club dance music from the ‘breaks’ or ‘hooks’ on the sheet. The have all been transposed into Am so will flow nicely into each other - students could also compose their own chord sequence in Am that these hooks will work with. The sheet contains 2-4 bars of the main hooks from the following songs: 7 Nation Army - White Stripes Shape of You - Ed Sheeran Wake Me Up - Avicii Insomnia - Faithless Lady Gaga - Poker Face King - Years and Years

This resource places some of the main features of each set work together on a single sheet to give students an overview of each work in the same place. The organisation is based around ‘Musical Contexts’ and ‘Musical Elements’. It is set up to print on A3 Paper for ease of access.

First of 7 lessons. My whole SoW is for sale here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/afro-celt-lessons-for-gcse-music-11900896

This is an overview for Practice Paper 1 - my SoW lessons for Star Wars is for sale here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/star-wars-gcse-set-work-11897581

Create an example Taboo-style game for GCSE students based on one of the SetWorks and then give them the template to create their own. Colour coded using the same analysis colour scheme used in all the resources I have developed. Add a bonus reward for the students who can give examples related to the word on their card. Adapt for KS3 or even KS5. Offered here as an editable Word Document. Print double-sided on thin card flipped on the long edge. NB. It looks a little strange in the preview/info but I know the file is fine in Word 2016 and so I’d be interested to hear from anyone who tries downloading whether it works successfully. I hope you like it!

Afro Celt ‘Release’ -Technology -GCSE (9-1) Edexcel Pearson.- NEW 2018 This interative activity requires Logic Pro and an entire lesson to allow for the exploration of the **Music Technology **used in Afro Celt Sound System ‘Release’. Much of the piece is made by looping! The worksheet goes through the process of recreating the introduction of ‘Release’. The introduction starts with a drone that uses two different synth tones, hard-panned L and R. Both synths are being filtered with low pass filters- all these features are covered in this resource. This whole lesson task works really well when modelled and taught as a whole class workshop (students participating in each of the stages of the process). Enjoy and please rate!

Purcell: ‘Music for a While’ -GCSE (9-1) Edexcel Pearson.- NEW 2018 Ground Bass is a structural and harmonic device (also known as basso ostinato), used widely in both instrumental and vocal music in the Baroque era. In this lesson, students will explore the features of Purcell’s 3-bar ground bass in ‘Music for a While’ and apply their knowledge in composing their own ground basses. Objective(s): To understand that ground bass can act as a structural, as well as, a harmonic device in Baroque music. All/Most/Few: All will learn to recognise the features of the 3-bar ground bass in Music for a While, and apply similar features in their own ground bass compositions. Some will be able to create a full-length ground bass with a perfect cadence at the end to be looped. Few will be able to add additional continuo chords. *Differentiation: All students will compose a simple bassline of at least 8 notes. More able students will attempt to elaborate their basslines using shorter note values (quavers), using a mixture of steps and leaps (including some semitone chromaticisms if in a minor key)

Seven Beatles songs analysed, including the four songs from ‘Revolver’ which are Edexcel A level set works: Eleanor Rigby Here, There and Everywhere I Want to Tell You Tomorrow Never Knows Love Me Do A Hard Day’s Night A Day in the Life Suitable for A level and GCSE listening. Includes a scheme of work on the Beatles for younger pupils.

Analysis (divided into elements of music) of the following songs: ‘Eleanor Rigby’ ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ ‘I Want to Tell You’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ These are set works for the current Edexcel Pearson A level music course, but they are equally suitable as wider listening for GCSE/A level.

Get the class to play the riff from Ed Sheeran’s - Shape of you! Music for: Piano/Tuned percussion Guitar Bass guitar Ukulele Boomwhackers Have fun :) NOT in the original key

GCSE Music Revision Guide for 9-1 Edexcel Pearson exam

lyric for riptide for summer half term project

1.5 hour paper covering all units from KS3 Music.

1.15 hour assessment paper for Music including Elements of Music, Reggae, Blues, essay writing and Instruments.

Including all basic Elements of Music for Year 7 Assessment - 1 hour paper

Ideal for KS2 or KS3 Music

7 lessons outlining the set work of Release by Afro-Celt Sound-System.

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Star Wars lessons all on one Powerpoint with practical tasks and taking students through all of the info for the GCSE set work.

First lesson for free - my other lessons and SoW is uploaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/defying-gravity-from-wicked-gcse-9-1-11842060

Resource to aid revision of set works

I use this at the end of Year 9 to introduce some Music GCSE set works to the students.

A 6 week lesson on Rap. I have resources for practical and if needed please send me an email and I will provide the link as cannot sell on here.

A worksheet to introduce keywords to Rap topic.

Set of 27 Famous Musician Top Trumps cards featuring artists, designers and inventors. Includes a page of ‘backs’ so you can print back to back, double sided. Pdf and Publisher files included to make it easier to print/display. They should print out the correct size for the smaller laminaing pouch card sizes if you wanted to laminate them. Useful as a starter or end activity.

Here are a selection of pieces for rock and pop bands. They includes parts for Guitar (riff and chords), Bass Guitar, Drums, Keyboard/Piano and Vocals (lyrics). Some of the keys have been changed to suit children’s voices/make them easier to play (child friendly keys) Enjoy :)

A handy step-by-step guide to enable your students to begin working with Sibelius in just five simple stages. (Resource designed to work with Sibelius 7 & 7.5). Photocopy and keep in their, folders, laminate and use as a desk-mat resource or enlarge and use as part of your display for composing and Music Technology! This can even be included as part of your department handbook. PDF included for immediate printing. Word.doc included for you to personalize

Violin Disney performance

Final Music project scheme of work for Year 9 (Last term), with log book

OCR GCSE Music 9-1 - Area of Study 3 - Rhythms of the World “Bhangra Music” This resource takes the pupils through all that they need to know about “Bhangra Music” in preparation for their Music GCSE. The Powerpoint contains all of the information that they need in preparation for their exam, and relevant listening tests/activites to complete too (all in the PowerPoint). This resource comes with; Teaching Powerpoint that contains all of the information needed about Bhangra Music; - Contextual information, Traditional Bhangra, Modern Bhangra, Instrumentation, Music Technology etc. Four different listening papers/ acitivites (included in the powerpoint) with relevant audio tracks (all hyperlinked to Youtube, and in the notes box for backup too) Bhangra Dancing and Dhol Videos (embedded in Powerpoint, but also contained in a seperate .zip folder) Bhangra Keyword/ Features sheet (word doc). The resource is mainly aimed at the OCR board, but there is a lot of relavent information for all of the other GCSE exam boards. I hope that this resource is useful to you and your pupils. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Thank you

This was designed for my very able Year 6 class, although this is probably a Key Stage 3 - 4 activity. It is a simplified and shorter Orff arrangement of the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with a few extra instruments that the children play. If you would like to see the Musescore file it can be found here

MAC USERS ONLY! please note this resource MAY need ADAPTING for YOUR needs I use this as a guide for myself when delivering info to students. I then set them individual tasks on each topics focus etc. Make it work for YOU. Massive Keynote Slideshow (27 slides) covering : Job Roles - 4 task scenarios for group work. Venues - Large, Medium, Small Record Labels - Major / Minor Marketing Publishing Distribution Musicians Union PRS MCPS PPL please note this resource MAY need ADAPTING for YOUR needs I use this as a guide for myself when delivering info to students. I then set them individual tasks on each topics focus etc. Make it work for YOU.

25% cheaper than buying the resources separately. This bundle includes a wide range of KS3 topics with schemes and work and full resources, including PowerPoints for every lesson. Each of these topics and have been taught successfully multiple times in various schools. This bundle includes the following topics: Elements of music Instruments of the Orchestra Cartoon Music Film Music Minimalism Fusion Rap & Hip Hop Samba Song Writing The Blues TV Advert Music

A range of KS3 Music topic with schemes of work and full resources and PowerPoints for each lesson. These schemes have all been taught successfully multiple times. This bundle includes: Elements of Music Cartoon Music Instruments of the Orchestra Film Music Minimalism Samba

A set of resources to help staff and students with the unit 1 exam i the BTEC First Award in Music: 2 virtual textbook flipped learning resources. All unit 1 past paper questions arranged by topic area. Personal Learning Checklists and student-friendly exam analysis document.

Complete bundle containing all the resources for the OCR GCSE Music ‘Virtual Textbook’ - a flipped learning approach to tackling the 4 Areas of Study examined in the 40% listening paper. Complete playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNeHS3oeH242gKpGrZAA-xvafcIOjjpw6

This is a unit of work for KS3 all about Blues Music. Note: This uses the same files as my other Blues Unit of Work upload- however it does not contain the tutorial videos and is therefore at a cheaper price! This unit has a practical approach and can be taught in a range of ways. I have done it just using music ICT software and midi keyboards, using live instruments when students work on their own e.g. pianos or live instruments where students work in groups on a range of instruments such as bass, piano, guitar and drums. This teaches some history and context as well as the main techniques of Blues- walking bassline, 12 bar blue chord sequence, improvising using the blues scale. It also has a few lessons on learning The Entertainer which I have found students enjoy learning. Included in this unit is a written scheme of work, 6 powerpoints and worksheets for learning the bassline, 12 bar blues chords, blues scale, So what by Miles Davis and The Entertainer by Scott Joplin.

This is a unit of work for KS3 all about Blues Music. This unit has a practical approach and can be taught in a range of ways. I have done it just using music ICT software and midi keyboards, using live instruments when students work on their own e.g. pianos or live instruments where students work in groups on a range of instruments such as bass, piano, guitar and drums. This teaches some history and context as well as the main techniques of Blues- walking bassline, 12 bar blue chord sequence, improvising using the blues scale. It also has a few lessons on learning The Entertainer which I have found students enjoy learning. Included in this unit is a written scheme of work, 6 powerpoints, 8 video tutorials for walking bassline, 12 bar blues chord sequence, blues scale and the Entertainer as well as a levels demonstration video. I have also included some resources for the Miles Davis song ‘So What’ as this has proved popular in the past as a Blues piece for students to learn.

This is a complete unit of work all about Classical Music. The aim of this unit is to introduce KS3 pupils to Classical Music in a fun and engaging way to give them an appreciation of the genre and knowledge of it to ready them for GCSE. The unit gives a brief history of Classical Music and gets students playing famous Classical pieces- in particular in the Hall of the Mountain King. Fur Elise, Suprise Symphony and Danse Macabre scores are also included as piano scores. Students also learn about rhythm and pulse, dynamics, pitch and texture- key words they will need to GCSE. This scheme can be approached in different ways and is versatile- I have taught this using ICT and music software such as garageband, keyboards or using a range of instruments such as tuned percussion and guitars. The unit includes a written scheme of work, 7 powerpoints, a video with fun info about Classical Music and piano scores for In the Hall of the Mountain King, Danse Macabre, Fur Elise and Suprise Symphony.

This is a guide for students (and teachers!) for creating a neat and readable score in Logic. It gives simple instructions with pictures to help you navigate the process more easy. This is especially useful for students who have composed GCSE compositions on Logic, as sometimes if they have composed lots of tracks, the go to score will look very cramped and messy!

This unit of work is aimed at introducing KS3 students to structure and form and composing their own ideas. It goes through key structures such as binary, ternary, arch, rondo and theme and variation with examples and opportunities to compose in those forms- this fits in with the knowledge needed for GCSE and covers many of the key words that will be needed for the listening and appriasing papers. This unit includes a written Scheme of work, 6 powerpoints with success criteria and logic file/mp3 examples of each structure.

This is a KS3 sow which introduces students to film music, in particular composing music for a scary scene. It teaches techniques such as chromaticism, ostinato, pedal, drone, cluster chords and unclear tempo and how to create these using music ICT software. There is a written SOW, powerpoints for 6 lessons, videos of the techniques, success criteria, help sheets, existing scary songs written out (good for the start of SOW or cover) and a number of logic/garageband examples with the techniques in. This techniques link in with many of the GCSE specs and key words that students are expected to know.