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).
Get your classroom band together and have fun playing Touch the sky!
Touch the sky is written for Ukulele, Boomwhackers, Tuned percussion and Recorder.
Resource includes sheet music (with and without note names) and play along/backing tracks.
Let’s Rock is written for Recorder, Ukulele, Boomwhackers and tuned percussion.
This resource includes play along and backing tracks and sheet music (with and without note names)
20 pieces for beginner Trombone in a variety of different styles.
These pieces progress steadily and give children the chance to play a relatively large repertoire without using too many notes. The music covers the notes A, Bb, C, D, Eb and F and is enough for a years worth of tuition! Perfect for the classroom/WCET.
This resource includes the sheet music (PDF) and play along/backing tracks for the first 10 pieces of music. The first 10 pieces covers the notes Bb, C and D.
You can purchase pieces 11-20 here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12896915
Recorder play long for Spooksville! Can you keep up with the Wicked Witch?
This resource includes sheet music, backing and play along track. The music uses the notes E, F#, G, A and B.
Can you keep up with the Wicked Witch?
Spooksville is a piece for Percussion, using the notes D, E, F, G and A.
This resource includes sheet music, backing and play along track.
Eight planets is a 6 week topic aimed at teaching children all about the planets through singing, playing and composing.
It’s aimed at Years 1-4.
Included is:
● An original song (backing track/vocal track)
● Planet cut outs
● Rhythm cut outs
● Score
● Melody score for tuned percussion (including coloured score for boom whackers, belles etc)
● Lesson plan
● Powerpoint
Learning Outcomes:
● I can name all eight planets learn other words relating to space such as galaxy, solar system, sun and orbit.
● I can sing a song about space.
● I can read and understand crotchets (ta), quavers (ti-ti) and crotchet rests (shh).
● I can notate rhythms.
● I am developing an understanding of pitch (higher and lower).
● I can play tuned percussion using two notes: G (so) and E (mi).
● I can use technology to create sounds.
● I can listen to a piece of music and describe it (instrumentation, how it makes me feel, happy/sad/exciting etc.).
It covers all KS1 links to the national curriculum:
• Use their voices 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
This is a collection of 10 songs to be sung with a shaker.
Every song is designed to reinforce pitch, pulse and rhythm (either consciously or unconsciously) and will help with a range of social skills (turn taking, working with a partner or group etc).
The songs are all in an appropriate range for children. Most use a maximum of a 6-note range with some stretching to an octave. All songs are in C Major but can easily be transposed to D. Each song comes with easy to follow instructions.
They can be used with KS1 and KS2 and have all been tried and tested by the children I teach and have all been received well and enjoyed!
These songs have also been designed to fit perfectly within the Kodaly methodology if teachers are using it (using common ta and ti-ti rhythms and incorporating familiar melody lines - so-mi / mi-so-la).
Scarf songs - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12564116
Miscellaneous songs - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12564112
Rhythm stick songs - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12590879
Parachute songs - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12563992
All 40 songs for £5 - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12564122
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!
Can you keep up with the Wicked Witch?
Spooksville is a piece for Boomwhacker, using the notes D, E, F, G and A.
This resource includes sheet music, backing and play along track.
Get your class playing together with Hidden treasure!
Hidden treasure is written for Ukulele, Recorder, Boomwhackers and Tuned percussion.
Resource includes:
Sheet music (with and without written notes)
Play along and backing track
Can you keep up with the Whacker waltz?
Written for Boomwhackers, this waltz gets progressively faster.
Resource includes:
Sheet music (with and without note names) and play along/backing tracks
“Argh me hearties”, grab your recorders and enjoy playing Hidden treasure as a duet or a trio!
Resource includes:
Sheet music (with and without note names)
Backing track
Play along tracks
Here are a selection of pieces for rock and pop bands. They includes parts for Guitar (riff and chords), Bass Guitar, Drums, Keyboard/Piano and Vocals (lyrics).
Some of the keys have been changed to suit children’s voices/make them easier to play (child friendly keys)
Enjoy :)
This is a short project I did with KS2.
It contains a Powerpoint with all the relevant information about how to write your own song.
You will need to link music to the relevant pictures.
It has music for a class to play 'I Gotta Feeling&' by the Black Eyed Peas.
There is also a very basic lesson plan with it.