A template I use to develop composition skills, listenening and appraising skills that link to the AQA GCSE course. Students are given a realistic brief set by a gaming developer that provides a great jumping off point to help students work a melody and simple chord progression out by ear as well develop a musical idea fit for purpose. Resource includes PowerPoint, Audio file, MIDI files and Logic session.

This is a copy of the logbook I have developed for our students to use alongside the AQA GCSE music course. Weekly performance logs for composition and performance with mark schemes and self assessment checkpoints. A ‘useful stuff’ section is included towards the back of the booklet for student and teacher reference during practical lessons. I have found students have responded positively to this booklet, and it has made my life so much easier with tracking student progress during practical lessons. I hope you find it useful, if you do, please leave me some feedback. Keep on rocking.

Introducing students to the album “Graceland” by Paul Simon. The 50 page PowerPoint gives both a general overview of the artist and albums relevance as well as more detailed breakdowns of the three study pieces. “You can call me Al” “Graceland” and “Diamonds on the soles of her shoes” embedded resources that include some sing along tracks, chord charts, videos and audio examples help to keep students engaged. This pack could also be used as a knowledge consolidation resource to help students revise key points from the pieces. A great jumping off point to begin teaching these fantastic pieces. Hoping this saves you all some time in planning for the new study pieces and takes the pressure off a little so you can just get teaching. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions, always happy to help out where I can.

A PowerPoint presentation that includes: An audio summary of the piece (from AQA’s specification) Chord charts for Ukulele, Guitar, and Piano. An interactive play along video (Full song) Links to Piano, Bass and Drum notation for the piece. I designed this resource as a support for students wishing to rehearse the piece at home and supplement learning in the classroom. Students have responded well to these types of resources at my school. I can release other study piece videos in the same style if teachers are finding them useful? Please let me know and leave feedback if you have the time. Kind Regards.

A classroom companion for teaching the study piece “With a little help from my friends” FREE HIGH QUALITY TRACK RECORDINGS/PPTX/LOGIC FILES PowerPoint contains a full breakdown of the piece that can be easily adapted to suit your teaching style. Audio and visual examples of some of the key areas of the piece. Recreated instrumental version that can be used for class play along, learning specific instrumental parts, classroom singing etc. Logic Pro X session files included to enable you to make your own arrangements etc. Please leave feedback if you have found my resource to be useful

A super simple resource that explains the basics of remixing. Offers a simple definition of the term and gives an audible example for students to hear. Basic steps of how to begin remixing on a D.A.W included, as well as a few MIDI files that students can drag and drop into their digital workstations to begin manipulating MIDI information and getting hands on with remixing some recognisable melodies. If you find the resource useful please leave me some feedback :-) happy to create more content if people find it useful.

Hi all, My school is having a big push on vocabulary teaching across all departments, so I developed this booklet / PowerPoint resource to help teach and understand some different tiered musical vocabulary. Feel free to adapt and use as you see fit. As always, hope this helps someone out and saves you some valuable time. If you have found it useful please consider leaving me some feedback so I can develop more/better resources in the future if you would find it helpful. Also please let me know if there are any resources you feel would be beneficial for me to make and I will give it a go. Keep on Rocking!

A multi-lesson practical task, getting students to apply their knowledge of traditional musics (Blues, Folk, Latin, Reggae etc.) into a Blues-fusion piece. A quick, free resource that you can adapt and use as you see fit. I am using this with a few GCSE music classes as a platform to develop performance, composition and understanding skills within the traditional music AOS. Hopefully this will be of use to you. please leave me feedback if you have found the resource helpful (or not) it really helps me out when planning future resources. Stay safe and rock on!