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In Years 7 and 8 students receive one lesson of Music per week.
In Year 9 students can opt to take Music as part of the creative arts options.
YearTerm 1Term 2Term 3
Year 7Let’s Sing Together:
- Creating vocal sounds
- Exploring Harmony
- Beatboxing
- Layering

Keyboard Skills:
Basic knowledge of how the keyboard works
- Reading Music notation
- Playing melodies and chords
- Ensemble Skills
Ukulele:
- Learning chords
- Ensemble playing
- Song structures

Let’s Play Together:
- Chord Diagrams
- Primary chords
- Ensemble Skills
- Layering
Learning how different parts fit together
Polyrhythms:
- Samba
- Improvisation
- Call and Response
- Carnival
- Syncopation

Bandlab-Musical Structures:
- Introduction to Band Lab
- Exploring different structures
- Exploring textures
- Composing Chord Patterns and melodies
- Composition with loops in different styles of Music
Year 8Musical Theatre:
- Singing Together
- Ensemble Performance
- Exploring harmony
- Characterisation
- Story Telling
- Singing Melodies

All about the Bass:
- Bass Clef Reading
- Tab Reading
- Bassline Patterns/Riffs
-Bass Clef Instruments
Exploring Improvisation:
- Using notation
- Singing traditional Blues songs
- Playing chords
- Arranging for instruments
- Using Music Technology
- Using scales to improvise melodies
Motifs and Film Music:
- Character Motifs
- Leit motifs
- Exploring instruments
- Composing for characters and film scenes
- Performing well known film motifs
- Keyboard skills
Year 9
(Rotations)
Rotation 1
Live Lounge project

- Band project
- Whole song class project
- Instrumental skills- Guitar/keyboards/bass/ukulele/drums
- Ensemble Performance

Minimalism
- Composing with motifs
- Analysing music
- Keyboard skills
- Performing minimalist pieces
- Music Technology Skills

Rotation 2
Songwriting- Protest Songs

- Song analysis- John Lennon’s Imagine
- Songwriting- Chords, melody, riffs, basslines, lyrics
- Song Structures
- Music Technology skills- MIDI and audio recording
Year 10Musical forms and devices:
- Musical structures
- Musical devices used in composition
- The history of classical music

Popular Music:
- Rock and pop styles
- Chord progressions and harmony
- Set work analysis Africa, by Toto
Set work- Africa Toto:
Analysis using DR SMITH
- Whole class performance
- Exam questions


Film Music:
- Sonority, contrast
- Through composed structures
- Relationship between story and music
Free composition project:
- Free choice of composition based on skills learn throughout the year
- Creating a brief
- Creating and developing musical ideas

Set Work- Badinerie Bach:
- Analysis using DR SMITH
- Whole class performance
- Exam questions
- Extended writing
Year 11Music for Ensemble:
- Focus on different types of small ensemble
- Musical textures
- Different sonorities
- Chamber Music
- Ensembles in Musical Theatre and Jazz/Blues

Solo Performance Recording:
- Performance technique
- Expression and communication

Composition to a Brief:
- Choosing a brief
- Creating and developing musical ideas

Composition to a Brief:
- Choosing a brief
- Creating and developing musical ideas

Ensemble Performance Recording:
- Performance technique
- Expression and communication
- Communication and working together
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