This booklet contains enough work to fill a couple of lessons with a focus on learning the song “Billionaire” By Bruno Mars and Travie Mccoy. It has work on listening skills, performance, improvisation and the rhythm work. The chords and melody for the piece are all highlighted and there are chord boxes for students to learn the chords on piano/keyboard. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This powerpoint is for the game “Bob Marley or Bob MarLIE” where the class has to decide if it is a true or false statement about Bob Marley and Reggae music. It can be played as a reward at the end of lessons or as a starter to give context to the work done. It can also be played in groups, halves of the class or as separate smaller teams.

This Powerpoint contains enough work to fill a terms worth of lessons based around music for dance including Tango, Waltz and Disco. It introduces the ideas of time signatures, chords and melodies working together, how music can pair with movement along with the relevant context for the style of dance. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This powerpoint contains Blockbusters, Life’s Tough, Two truths & a Lie and Wipeout boards. The boards for each game are easy to customise so they can be used for any subject/topic. Each of the Blockbusters, Life’s tough and Wipeout boards are interactive with reveals for each set up after following the simple instructions in the word document attached. The Life’s Tough boards have 6 variations so there is a different point layout for each term, the same can be done for the Wipeout boards.

This powerpoint is set up for revision, tests/quizzes or just games of “Life’s Tough”. It works by either groups or individuals answering questions they are given, when they answer correctly they can come up to the board and pick a number, behind each number is either a +5, +10 or +15 points with some -1 and -10 point blocks hidden in there as well. The winner at the end is the team/individual who has the highest score. This is a great motivation tool for lower ability students who will see that there is always a chance to win as no one team is able to consistently gain points and take a commanding lead. Students I have used this with love the random element it gives to quizzes and I’ve found it to work best with teams and accepting the first three correct answers written down that I move around the room to check. Three teams choosing at a time gives you 6 questions per board. There are 6 boards with the points in a different order so the students cannot learn where the positives are. I mix them up but there are enough for one a term. There are also the individual slides used to create the finished boards so you can make more or change them however you want.

This series of posters sets out the key terms used with each musical element and show visual representations of their meaning to work as an aid in a classroom or as a revision guide. Each poster is colour coded and shows the features of each element to be used as prompts for answering questions, a quick reference for the classroom or as a way of embedding knowledge for students. These will enable deeper questions to be posed without relying on clarifying each element first for students who may struggle to remember each elements meaning and key terminology.

This Powerpoint is an adaptable game of Blockbusters. The complete version on the first slide is a general music theme using the elements of music, some contextual questions, vocab checks and orchestral families. There are other slides there to make it easily adaptable to different topics. To edit, simply add your chosen questions and and answers to the relevant slides and then copy and paste them on to the final slide. The powerpoint works by playing the slideshow and having the them answer the questions. When the correct answer is given you can click the edge of the blue hexagon (try to avoid the text for the easiest use) to reveal the answer and a yellow hexagon below. That team/student then needs to answer a question in a block connected to their previous one on their next turn. The first to make a complete chain from left to right wins!

This Powerpoint contains enough work to fill a terms worth of lessons based around the CeeLo Green song “Forget You”. It introduces the ideas of chords, melody playing, ear training, working in pairs and playing with both hands together. There is work based around the pentatonic nature of the melody, ideas on how to develop extended chord vamps and a section focusing on the rhythm section so you can develop this in to full class performances. Each lesson has starter and plenary questions which can be used as exit slips for checking students learning. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This Powerpoint contains enough work to fill a terms worth of lessons based around the Gotye song “Somebody that I used to know”. It introduces the ideas of chords, melody playing, ear training, working in pairs and playing with both hands together. There are also starters and plenaries to get students thinking about the wider influence of the work they are doing in your lessons. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This Powerpoint contains enough work to fill a terms worth of lessons based around the music of Jaws and Halloween. The practical work centers around learning these themes and creating compositions that create moods in film music. There are listening and analysis tasks based around both of these pieces of music. There are covered key terms such as Leitmotifs It focuses on using the elements of Dynamics, Texture, Tempo, Melody and Harmony to create different moods. There are explanations of cluster chords, semitone intervals (chromaticism), consonant & dissonant sounds, sequencing, diminution, inversion and more. There are also recall and starter tasks included for the lessons. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This master sheet has guidance for likely to come up key terms for Time Signatures, Tonality, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Texture, Ornamentation, Articulation, Structure, Musical Diction, Dynamics, Notes in a Scale, Chords, Tempo and Cadances. This sheet is perfect for revision of the terms as well as essay practice and listening tasks. Each topic is well annotated showing connections between terms and explaining all main considerations for a GCSE student.

This powerpoint is meant to be an introduction to the style of Tango with audio examples, key features of the style and labelled guides with chord diagrams and suggested bass parts to create a full Tango piece. The powerpoint also contains a finger labelling and a full guide to the chord progression. For lesson there is a starter task with info comparing Tango, Disco and Waltz style dance music and a more in depth look at the features of Tango on the following slide.

This powerpoint is meant to be an introduction to the idea of a waltz with audio examples, multiple notations and videos showing how to play the melody at two different difficulty levels. The powerpoint also contains a link to an Edpuzzle task to go through with students to get whole class answers before introducing multiple levels of difficulty with multiple notated and annotated riffs. For lesson there is a starter task with info on the waltz style, a “spot the patterns” task for the melody, a full notation of the waltz to learn and a recap task for the end of the lesson.

This powerpoint has an overview of Paul Simon as an artist, Graceland as an album and in depth analysis of each of the named tracks for GCSE students. There are sections on the common terminology of African music the students will come across in the study of this album. The song analysis is broken down in to each musical element so the answers for exam style questions asking about specific elements are easy to extract. Chords for the songs are included to get students interacting with the work in a practical way. This Powerpoint aligns with the AQA set works for Paul Simon.

This Powerpoint contains enough work to fill a terms worth of lessons based around Riffs and 60’s Rock music with a focus on learning the songs by The Beatles, The Kinks and The White Stripes . It has work on listening skills, instrument identification and the features of Rock. The chords and melody for each piece are all highlighted (often with video examples) and there are chord boxes for students to learn the chords on piano/keyboard. There are also recall tasks, in lesson group activities and documentary extracts included. There are assessment criteria at the end which can be adapted to fit numerous teacher chosen outcomes from the work found in this topic. It is a great resource to use for an entire term or to dip in to for starter tasks and well designed single sheets to take to away to instruments or stick in books.

This powerpoint is meant to be an introduction to the idea of a riff with multiple examples to play as well as audio examples of riffs in context. The powerpoint also contains a link to an Edpuzzle task to go through with students to get whole class answers before introducing multiple levels of difficulty with multiple notated and annotated riffs. The students can choose between “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes, “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks and “Xxplosive” by Dr Dre. These build in difficulty and are all fully notated with resources in the powerpoint and scannable by QR code.

This homework grid is set out to encourage students to choose their own learning path within a given framework. Each of the three difficulty levels rewards more points towards the terms total than the last but is capped so students will complete 3-4 homework tasks to make the total points needed by the end of the given time frame. The tasks are related to listening skills, practical skills, analytical skills and knowledge of the musical elements. This is so a student who has access to instruments at home is not at a distinct advantage to the students who have no access.