Blues Unit (Keyboard): LESSON 2

Includes all lesson slides and a full colour, double-sided help sheet for use by students during the lesson

This is lesson 2 of my Blues scheme of work, which aims to introduce key stage 3 students to the Blues in a fun, practical and musical way, using keyboards. This is the outline of the whole scheme of work:

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Blues, learning how to play the 12 bar blues chords
Lesson 2: Improvising with the blues scale
Lesson 3: Combining the 12 bar blues chords with the blues scale
Lesson 4: Understanding what a walking bass line is and learning to play one
Lesson 5: Understanding and being able to play with a swing rhythm
Lesson 6: Assessment

The unit contains lots of listening and performing, with some improvisation. There is some use of stave notation, although letter names are provided as well.

The unit will help your students to develop their chord playing, familiarity with notation and keyboard skills, as well as to give them a basic understanding of all the main elements of blues music.

If you choose to purchase the full scheme of work, you get a small discount compared to buying individual lessons, and this also includes a unit map: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13414945