African Music is a very popular topic in Key Stage 3 Music. This project focuses on Rhythm and Metre, balancing theoretical elements such as basic note durations, time signatures, and specific features of rhythm and metre with live group performances. The cultural and historical elements of the music are also a focus within the unit, and explicitly so in 2 of the tasks for the benefit of subject-specific Citizenship requirements.
The project is divided into 2 ‘lessons’, which fit perfectly into 2 x 100-minute lessons, but also very well into 3 action-packed hour-long lessons… I have personally taught this project in both of these formats. The theoretical content works best with most Year 8 groups, but can also work well with high-ability Year 7 groups; the performing and composing tasks work great with either year group.
The video tutorials take the pressure off you, the teacher, if you need half an hour or so to check homework, etc. Let me teach your students how time signatures work, what triplets are, and how graphic scores work while you mark a few books, if you want!
I take great pride in the quality of my resources and I welcome feedback and enquiries from my colleague-customers the world over. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
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Year 7 Music Bundle
This great bundle is also appropriate for Year 8, and it contains SEVEN separate fully-resourced projects: 3 x World Music Projects (African, Chinese, and Indonesian Gamelan); 2 x Bridging units (Notation and Composing); 1 x cover lesson pack for 2 continuous 1-hour lessons (History of Music). On top of this, you also get my 'flagship' Key Stage 3 resource based on the Harry Potter series, which is great for any time of the year and especially so at Halloween and Christmas. If you are one of my many Australian or American colleague-customers, this bundle suits Grades 6-8. All enquiries warmly welcomed to rainynightmusic@hotmail.com
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WORLD MUSIC Bundle
This is an opportunity to buy 5 top-quality World Music projects suitable for Key Stage 3 in the UK and for Middle School in the USA. Each project is fully resourced including: PowerPoints, Work Sheets, Answers, videos and audios and teacher guidance notes. In this download bundle, you will receive: 1 x Chinese Music project 1 x African Music project 1 x Indonesian Gamelan Music Project 1 x Indian Bhangra-Hindustani Music Project 1 x Spanish Flamenco Music Project Please do click on the bundled resources to see the full details of exactly what you get in each pack. Each project contains between 2 and 3 hours of resources/ activities/ learning time. Based on an hour per week of timetabled music at Key Stage 3/ Middle School, I would suggest that this pack contains enough for a whole term of structured and varied world music fun! I really hope that you will enjoy my resources and find them useful. I pride myself on the quality of the resources that I publish, and I welcome feedback and enquiries from all of my colleague-customers across the world. I can be contacted directly at rainynightmusic@hotmail.com and I would be delighted to hear from you. Thank you for considering this resource for your classroom.
£25.00
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