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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.

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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.
Baroque Music
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Baroque Music

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A useful start for Year 8 (and even Year 7) pupils into Baroque music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Baroque era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Instrument Heroes or Villains in Film Music
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Instrument Heroes or Villains in Film Music

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A worksheet of associating certain instruments with heroes or villains. It doesn't contain any links to tracks but you can use certain film and TV theme tunes to use for associations. For example, Double Bass - Jaws - Villain. Trumpet - Indiana Jones - Hero. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Bass Guitar fretboard layout
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Bass Guitar fretboard layout

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Print outs of the bass guitar fretboard for students to use when learning how to play the bass guitar. Useful for class band lessons - students can read the layout to work out which notes they need and evaluate which notes sound 'better'; higher pitch or lower pitch.
Introduction to Salsa music
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Introduction to Salsa music

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Ideal for Year 9 class - activities include: Quiz on basic facts of Salsa music Key features of son and big band + revision task Listen to 'Clocks&' in salsa style on Youtube Learn salsa rhythms Perform to &';Dreamcatch me' by Newton Faulkner (strong, pulsing beat to keep in time) &'Taboo&'; game of key features of Salsa This has been edited by another resource on TES so this isn't completely mine but edited! Any feedback would be great, thanks :)
GarageBand guide
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GarageBand guide

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A basic 'How to..' guide for GarageBand. I have used this with Year 7-9 students and it works as well with all groups. Any feedback, please let me know.
Blues, Reggae or Acoustic?
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Blues, Reggae or Acoustic?

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Used as a plenary for a short performing styles unit based on Blues, Reggae and Acoustic music. Students work out the style of music from the description, for example, this music originated from the Carribean - Reggae. Can be used to tack on other styles of music to edit it into a bigger scale activity for KS4. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Budget 2013 - Could you be the Chancellor?
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Budget 2013 - Could you be the Chancellor?

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A range of activities for my Year 8 form to teach them about what the Chancellor does, what are his responsibilities, and for students to work out what they would rank as the most important area for investment to be made e.g. health, education, transport, housing etc. Students then have the chance to work out how much of the budget they would spend on different areas, what the effects of cuts would be and to see the sharing of England's revenue for the 2012 Budget.
Classical Music
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Classical Music

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A useful start for Year 8 (and even Year 7) pupils into Classical music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Classical era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music  A Level
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Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music A Level

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A guide of how to harmonise Bach Chorales. This includes; *example Bach chorales *theory exercises to prepare for harmonising Bach chorales *practice questions *ways to harmonise cadences and phrases using stock progressions *methods to include more sophistication including modulations, cadential 6-4s, diminished chords and suspensions More resources available on my page.
Yellow - Coldplay; chords and lyrics
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Yellow - Coldplay; chords and lyrics

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Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Edexcel GCSE Composition booklet updated May '13
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Edexcel GCSE Composition booklet updated May '13

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This includes: what the students are required to do, how to achieve top marks for developing/exploitation/structure, how to start various styles of composition and how to develop them. Example images of compositions provided, Shoenberg chord chart for working out what appropriate chords to use and Sibelius shortcuts.\n\nAny feedback on what can be added would be great, this is a working document and has been for a few months!
Match key word to the music element
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Match key word to the music element

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An open task for KS3 - Year 7 task or Year 9 revision. Feel free to cater it to the needs of your class, there are lots of other key terms that can be added and lots of other tasks that can branch off from this.
Blues Higher or Lower
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Blues Higher or Lower

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Useful for a quick plenary or even as a starter to get pupils thinking about numbers relating to Blues music but they have to work out if the next answer is higher or lower than the previous. For example, Q1. How many chords in standard Blues chord patterns? 3. Q2. Blues started in which century? (higher or lower than 3 - previous answer) etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Edexcel GCSE quick-fire anthology questions
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Edexcel GCSE quick-fire anthology questions

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Starter/plenary questions based on half of the set works - Indian/African/Celtic and Reich/Schoenberg/Bernstein. Can be used to cut out and stick on card for revision of the set work or a revision of a starting lesson on the set work.
Human Rights introduction
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Human Rights introduction

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Introduction into watching Hotel Rwanda on DVD. Students work out which human rights are applicable to them in school as well as viewing some of the more viewable pictures from Rwanda in 1994. There is a link to the BBC website with a compilation of news audio clips from 1994.
Music: Short composition practice tasks
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Music: Short composition practice tasks

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These are designed for students to practise (either on Sibelius or by hand) making chords such as; Major chords Minor chords Augmented chords Cadences Dominant 7ths Neapolitan 6ths Extended Any feedback on these would be much appreciated. I’ve uploaded both the pdfs and the Sibelius files. More resources available on my page.