**Riffs & Hooks ** 15 Notated Classic Club Keyboard Riffs Here are 15 classic riffs for keyboard from club tracks spanning the 1990s to 2020s. For producers, keyboard players and song writers to learn play and breakdown catchy riffs and hooks. The Riffs are arranged to give a flavour of the original recordings - the key has been adjusted and some riffs have slight adjustments to phrasing so use this as a starting point for learning. CHECK the accompanying YouTube video as there are some details listed below that are important to get the accurate sound! Notated with pitch names added underneath the stave. The beat is 125 bpm - Key Aminor (mainly) - Synthesia guide and notated score On the whole all the riffs are in A minor (no sharps or flats) with a couple of exceptions. Robyn S - ‘Show Me Love’ Calvin Harris - ‘I’m Not Alone’ Liquid - ‘Sweet Harmony’ The Prodigy - ‘No Good (Start The Dance) Underworld - ‘Born Slippy’ The Streets - ‘Blinded By The Lights’ Snap - ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’ Reel 2 Real - ‘I Like To Move It’ Chris Brown - ‘Don’t Wake Me Up’ Swedish House Mafia - ‘Don’t U Worry Child’ Bucketheads - ‘The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)’ Avicci - ‘Wake Me Up’ NOTE: Last ‘D’ bends up to an ‘E’ Artful Dodger - ‘Movin’ Too Fast’ Acraze - ‘Do it To it’ Leave a comment if you or your students find this useful and if you’d like to see more resources like this.

This is a set of printable colour posters to display musical notation of note values from whole note to sixteenth notes. The Pack contains 2 versions for each note value to suit the system you teach. Set one uses note names and notation (Semibreve…minim…etc) Set two uses qauntize values and notation (whole…1/2…etc) Depending on your students and class space you can use either or both freely. The note values and rests are colour matched. They will work as a display in your music room to create a giant collage by positioning them side by side or they could be used as a border. remember you can also print them to A3 for larger coverage.

Here is an interactive ppt setup as a music groovebox. Ideal for use with film and video game music units. Each pad triggers a sample which can be used in conjunction with the other pads. These can be used as a fun way to model/improvise with different compositional devices such as, augmentation/diminution, Pedal/Drone, Motif, Arpeggio/Chords/Inversions etc. To use the ppt file you will need to Download it and run it locally (not via web 360 or google docs sorry!) Run the ppt in presentation mode

Printable colour posters of with graphic icons and standard language to aide learning of the key musical elements and their meanings. These posters act as a scaffold to reduce cognitive load and to give a non music visual cue.