Reggae FULL SCHEME OF WORK - for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals

This is a full scheme of work teaching students about reggae music - its history and its musical features - through learning 3 Little Birds as a whole class band. It also features a basic introduction to playing, and reading tab for, guitar, bass guitar and drums.

Included in the scheme of work are all the lesson slides, the unit map, the double-sided handout and the assessment mark sheets to print and give to students. If you only want the handout, so that you can do your own thing with lessons, it’s available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13416262

You’ll need keyboards, guitars, bass guitars, drums and ideally microphones, but the first 2 lessons could be used as standalone keyboard lessons, if you don’t have the equipment. Even for a 5-week term, I have often adapted this unit to be a keyboard-only unit (sometimes with added vocals), because it can easily take most students the 4 weeks before the assessment to master the keyboard part (especially if playing with 2 hands). But if you have the equipment, the whole-class band is a lot of fun, and totally doable if you have at least 6 weeks!

Lessons are as follows: (all are available to purchase individually but work best together!)

Lesson 1: Introduction to reggae’s musical features, Bob Marley and the musical theory of chords and chord inversions
Lesson 2: The history of reggae, and how to read guitar chord boxes for the chords of 3 Little Birds
Lesson 3: Learning how to read bass and drum tab for 3 Little Birds
Lesson 4: Learning the vocal part, assigning roles for the whole class band, and continuing to practise individual parts for the chorus, before playing this as a band
Lesson 5: Practising individual parts for the verse, and playing as a class for the chorus as well as the verse
Lesson 6: Final rehearsal and assessment