I am a specialist primary music teacher living and teaching in Devon.
I have 20 years experience of teaching and love creating resources. As well as creating my own resources I have also created resources for companies such as ABRSM. I am also a professional and published composer of Brass band and Concert Band music.
Check out my Youtube page - www.youtube.com/musicwithmrgray
I play trumpet professionally in a ska/reggae/dub band called The Kingstons (www.thekingstons.club).
I am a specialist primary music teacher living and teaching in Devon.
I have 20 years experience of teaching and love creating resources. As well as creating my own resources I have also created resources for companies such as ABRSM. I am also a professional and published composer of Brass band and Concert Band music.
Check out my Youtube page - www.youtube.com/musicwithmrgray
I play trumpet professionally in a ska/reggae/dub band called The Kingstons (www.thekingstons.club).
This is a classroom arrangement of the South African song, Shosholoza.
It features three vocal parts and a music arrangement for classroom instruments including Djembes, tuned percussion and guitars/ukuleles. Boom Whackers could easily play the same parts as well. All notes are coloured to match Boom Whackers and various percussion instruments. Enjoy!
This is a classroom arrangement of Spring by Vivaldi for tuned percussion and/or Boom Whackers. The colours intentionally match the colours of Boom Whackers and various percussion instruments for ease. Enjoy!
Practice your C and F chord with “Two chord jam”. Challenge yourself by having a go at the melody in TAB as well :)
This resource includes the sheet music and backing/play along tracks.
This is a 6 week topic that aims to teach the main elements of music: Pitch, Tempo, Timbre, Dynamic, Duration, Texture and Rhythm. This is done through listening to music (from Queen to Beethoven), composing songs, moving to sounds and music and creating music compositions using tuned and untuned instruments.
Every lesson will focus on an element and explore its importance in music. Tuned and untuned percussion will be used in every lesson to help with this. The children will be given opportunities to improvise and create their own music and sounds.
Standard notation will be used to help children develop an understanding of music/rhythm reading.
Songs/chants will also be sung to accompany the lessons, developing their singing voices every week. An opportunity for the children to write their own class song will also be used to develop their singing and compositional skills.
As well as plenty of compositional and improvisation opportunities, lessons are also inspired by Kodaly/Dalcroze/Orff ideas and methods, allowing children to explore music through sound and movement.
Links to curriculum/Possible assessment opportunities:
Use the voice expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music
Please note: I have used the font AR CHRISTY for a lot of the slides so it may look slightly different!
A class arrangement of Little Brown Jug, perfect for WW2 topic!
The arrangement is written for tuned percussion, keyboard, other melodic instruments in C, guitar and bass guitar, piano and ukulele (although guitar can play the same chords as well).
It’s in C major but the melody is easy to transpose for other instruments.
Laze in the Sun uses the chords Am, C and F and is a nice simple laid back piece of music, ideal for classroom and ensembles.
Resource includes sheet music and backing/play along track.
A nice easy going piece to work on your Em chord. Perfect for the classroom or smaller ensemble. Play the melody using TAB or the chords (C, Em, Am, F and G).
Resource comes with backing/play along tracks and music (PDF).
Play and sing along to My Ukulele that focuses on the G chord.
Uses chords C, F and G.
This resource comes with backing/play along tracks and music (PDF)
Practice the chord of G and play a nice simple melody with Take it easy
This includes sheet music and play along/backing tracks.
Purchase all 20 Guitar play alongs here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12729233
Play some harmonies with Harmonious
This includes sheet music and play along/backing tracks.
Purchase all 20 Guitar play alongs here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12729233
Challenge yourself with some Flamenco ukulele (don’t worry, you don’t have to be able to play flamenco style!!)
This piece uses the chords Em, Am and B7.
This resource includes sheet music and play along/backing tracks.
Head bang to metal mania
This includes sheet music and play along/backing tracks.
Purchase all 20 Guitar play alongs here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12729233
