This is a resource to help students find the correct notes on a piano or keyboard that uses full size keys. It also has a guide to basic treble and bass clef notes on the reverse. Suitable for students of any age. Simply print off the PDF document, cut out, place on the keys to give you a guide to the note names of the keys. Simply laminate them to make them last. Fed up with students writing all over your keyboards? Try the Notefinder!

These are Music Tech FX Bingo cards complete with audio recordings. There are 15 unique bingo cards (1 per page in a PDF document). Each bingo card has 12 music technology FX terms on it and the pack comes with 12 audio recordings of the FX featured on the cards. The audio recordings are of a live trumpet. This is a great activity for KS4 and KS5 classes and work particularity well when teaching students about music technology. Initially developed for use with GCSE Music classes but also handy for Music & Music Tech students at KS5. Use as as a starter or plenary activity or even as a starting point for a whole lesson. Simply print off the bingo cards, hand out to students (I get students to work in pairs), select the audio files at random and let the students work out which FX they are hearing. You can make the task easier by playing the ‘clean’ version of the audio first as a baseline. Make your own rules for bingo or have students come up with their own. Simply laminate them to use them time and time again. Any feedback would be greatly received. Let me know how you got on with it and I welcome any suggestions for improvements.

This is pack of differentiated music related Sudoku activities. Instead of using numbers the puzzles use music symbols related to rhythm. The musical symbols covered are: breves, semibreves, minims, crotchets, quavers, semiquavers and rests. There are 18 puzzles in this resource which are split into three levels of difficulty: 1. Easy 4x4 grid 2. Medium 6x6 grid 3. Hard 9x9 grid This activity is particularly useful when building cross-curricular links between Music and Maths. The solutions are included as part of this resource.

This is a resource to help students find the correct notes on a piano or keyboard that uses full size keys. It also has a guide to notes of the C Major Scale on the reverse, colour coded to the front. This is effective as a differentiation device, particularly helping visual learners. Simply print off the PDF document, cut out, place on the keys to give you a guide to the note names of the keys. Simply laminate them to make them last.

Rhyhtm Builder activity This is an activity designed for KS3 but could also be used for students in KS2 and at GCSE level. Simply print off the templates and cut out the rhythms to give students an easy way to compose rhythms in 2,3,4 and 5 time. The rhythm shapes are set so students should be able to compose accurate rhythms simply by making sure each line is filled with out any overlapping of the shapes. Great for getting students composing rhythms.

This is a student's step by step guide to composing in ternary form. It can be used with classes or as an independent study guide for students. This workbook also includes notation basics to help students with the theory of composing using notation. I initially wrote this booklet to help with students at GCSE level who were struggling to get started with composition. However, it could be useful for more able students at Key Stage 3. The 15 page workbook contents: Notation basics – Pitch Notation basics – Rhythm What is Ternary Form? Composing the A Section Composing your own A Section Composing the B Section Composing your own B Section Chords Adding chords to your melody Cadences The return of the A Section Extending your piece further

These are piano roll bingo cards complete with audio recordings (MP3s). There are 16 unique bingo cards (1 per page in a PDF document). Each bingo card has 16 small piano roll notations on it and the pack comes with 16 audio recordings of the music featured on the cards. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and work particularity well when teaching students about piano rolls, notation or the musical elements. This is also a useful activity for introducing students to notation used on software packages such as Garageband, Logic or Cubase. Useful as as a starter or plenary activity or even as a starting point for a whole lesson. Simply print off the bingo cards, hand out to students (I get students to work in pairs), select the audio files at random and let the students work out which piano roll best fits what they are hearing. Each audio file has a four click intro and then the two bar piano part. Make your own rules for bingo or have students come up with their own. Simply laminate them to use them time and time again. You can also use the cards as a performing activity before hearing the audio files. Ask students to try and work out what the piano rolls will sound like using their voice or an instrument. As a composing activity, there is a blank card that you can get students to compose their own ideas and create their own piano roll. Any feedback would be greatly received. Let me know how you got on with it and I welcome any suggestions for improvements.

This is a short fanfare for a school brass and percussion ensemble. Originally written for the opening of a concert. The parts range in difficulty from grade 1 to grade 5. If you have a slightly different ensemble or need to change it the Sibelius file will allow you to do this . The music can be heard on my soundcloud account. The instrumentation is for: 1st Bb Trumpet 2nd Bb Trumpet 3rd Bb Trumpet 1st Horn in F 2nd Horn in F 1st Trombone 2nd Trombone in Bb (treble clef) Bass trombone Tuba Cymbals Snare Drum

This is a 2 page worksheet with some tips and guidance for students on how to compose a simple cadenza. I wrote this to cover some aspects of the 'Concerto through time' area of study for OCR GCSE Music but it could also be used for KS5 classes. I use it as a composing and performance activity for GCSE Music. The worksheet takes a brief look at cadenzas and then sets out some techniques that could be used for students to write their own. The worksheet looks at sequences, repetition, chromatic passages, interval expansion, dynamics, tempo and articulations.

This is a swing arrangement of ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’ for a school ensemble as a Sibelius 7 file, Sibelius 3 or XML music file. Hear the entire piece on my soundcloud account. PDF parts and score included