This resource is designed to run alongside a Film Music scheme of work. It highlights key musical features of Horror Soundtracks to aide composing in this style, using popular movie examples. I have used this with a year 9 boys Music Technology class as they compose music to fit a clip of Jack Sparrow’s first entrance in The Pirates of the Caribbean. They sequenced in their ideas to the video synced to a Logic Pro file. It could easily be adapted for use in a general music class in a standalone film soundtrack composition task.

This booklet gives students the step by step process to follow in order create their own group African Drumming composition. This would accompany an African Music scheme of work It contains sections for students to record their own composition ideas and keep a composition log (with space for student and teacher assessment). Contents - Introduction - Countries of Africa - Rhythm Composition - Cyclic Patterns - Polyrhythms - Call and Response - Composition (A table to notate each individual students part within the piece) - Performance Diary (week by week log of composition with progress indicators and space for student and teacher feedback - Questionnaire (reflection on the project)

This resource is designed to run alongside a Film Music scheme of work. It highlights key musical features of Heroic Music to aide composing in this style, using popular movie examples. I have used this with a year 9 boys Music Technology class as they compose music to fit a clip of Jack Sparrow’s first entrance in The Pirates of the Caribbean. They sequenced in their ideas to the video synced to a Logic Pro file. It could easily be adapted for use in a general music class in a standalone film soundtrack composition task.

Lead sheets for the song Stars from Les Miserables. These sheets include chord diagrams for both ukulele and keyboard so students can accompany others.

Ideal for early KS3 students when learning the notes of the piano/keyboard. I have also used this with my lower ability, higher KS3 students to help remember where notes are when on keyboard performance tasks. I have used these in small assessment tasks as well as using them as prompts for various keyboard performance activities.

This worksheet was designed for students to be able to express their interests and to share a little about their personalities. It works as a fantastic icebreaker, particularly for year 7 students. I also used this sheet with a particularly difficult year 8 music class. I was able to break down a few barriers to learning by learning a little more about the students, and they felt more comfortable in the class after sharing a little about themselves.

A sheet I created for a year 7 graphics class. The students were learning about lettering and how to decorate/render lettering appropriately to a set brief. The brief was to create a pop up greetings card that would go on sale in a zoo gift shop.

A sheet I created to assess students ability on Logic Pro during a Dance Music composition activity. This was used with a year 8 class, but could easily be used with a KS4 class early on in a Music Tech qualification. The tasks are in order of difficulty and grouped together in Bronze/Silver/Gold levels (All/Most/Some). Useful to use these at various points of an activity writing the date in each box and seeing the progress as they learn new techniques.

This series of worksheets contains parts for a class performance or for smaller group performances of the Blues in C. It includes helpful hints and suggested tasks to practice the individual parts before bringing them together as an ensemble. Colour-coded parts include: - Keyboard chords - Blues Scale (Improvisation) - Keyboard - Drum Kit (Simple Rhythm) - Rhythm Grid - Ukulele Chords - Bass (Simple Root Notes) - TAB - Bass (Walking Bass) - TAB - Guitar (2 string chords) - TAB - Guitar (Full Chord) - Chord Diagrams My Year 8 classes have taken really well to these resources and have achieved some fantastic results in only a few lessons.

A handy little worksheet that I created and used with my year 10 RSL Level 2 - Music Tech class, to help them understand the various functions of Logic’s ES1 synthesizer.