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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.
Area of Study 2 and 5 questions
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Area of Study 2 and 5 questions

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Questions in the 1 point list are the easier questions, 3 points are slightly harder and the 5 points are pretty tricky. Students choose which question they answer, write it down, check with teacher and move onto another question. Teacher holds all revision guides and anthologies so if a student doesn't know the answer they can ask. The teacher will show them the answer but they forfeit points. Useful for independent learning and self-differentiation. Could also be used as a research task for students. Easily adaptable to the needs of your pupils. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Vocal and Instrumental composer history points
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Vocal and Instrumental composer history points

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Key points of the background of composers typed out into sentences. They can be cut up for the students to assemble into groups of the various composers. They can be further developed by adding in a Cloze passage element to them. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Elements of Music & Area of Study term card sort
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Elements of Music & Area of Study term card sort

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An assortment of card sorts - you can cut these out, put sticky backed plastic on them, call out a question and pupils fold over the key terms to be left with the key term to answer the question. Can be used for starters, plenaries or other mini tasks. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Music GCSE Edexcel Capercaillie carousel tasks
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Music GCSE Edexcel Capercaillie carousel tasks

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Useful as either a start into the piece, a revision or halfway through a scheme on Capercaillie. The Year 10 document can be either a Year 10 or a differentiated Year 11 copy. Any feedback would be great, thanks! There are all kinds of other things to be added on to there but it was put together rather quickly!
Moby timeline of events
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Moby timeline of events

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Similar to a Lord Of The Rings resource I've uploaded - a map of what happens in Moby's song; laid out in Cubase fashion (numbers on the top are the bars per box) pupils colour in/mark in which instruments are playing in which section (see second page of Word document). It is in the GCSE revision guide but is useful as a starting task on Moby. Any feedback you have would be helpful, thank you!
Edexel Music GCSE Composition booklet
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Edexel Music GCSE Composition booklet

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A step by step guide of how to compose in the different styles of music. I have used only the following: Minimalism, African, Baroque/Classical/Romantic and Pop. Includes ways to get top marks for structure, developing an idea, exploitation of the medium as well as snippets of example scores. This is based on the previous Edexcel specification. It's a working document so far from finished but feedback would be great, thanks!
Music Intervals flowchart
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Music Intervals flowchart

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A bit of a work in progress as it still looks complicated! The aim is to create a step-by-step guide for students studying Music Theory to work out whether an interval is diminished/minor/major/augmented. Still a work in progress but any advice on how to make it look easier would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Baroque wordsearch
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Baroque wordsearch

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Wordsearch made up of key terms associated with Baroque music. Useful as a starter to get pupils familiar with words linked to Baroque music.
Elements of Music: Mix&Match
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Elements of Music: Mix&Match

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A quick starter or matching the descriptions to the key terms - melody, harmony, texture, etc. Can be edited for extra words, examples of each element or even, depending upon your class(!), a demonstration of an element. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
GCSE Music Edexcel African example composition
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GCSE Music Edexcel African example composition

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**Update** I have just uploaded the sibelius version as with the change of TES I have been able to upload it. This is an example African composition score with 'notes&' on the score to highlight how the piece is put together. I am creating example compositions to go with a GCSE Composition booklet (have a look through my list of resources). Please leave any feedback you may have, thanks!
Feeling Good Chords and Lyrics
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Feeling Good Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for Feeling Good. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Rolling In The Deep Chords and Lyrics
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Rolling In The Deep Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for Rolling In The Deep by Adele. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (edited lyrics!)
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Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (edited lyrics!)

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Chords and edited lyrics for Bruno Mars's Lazy Song. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Set Fire To The Rain - Chords and Lyrics - Adele
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Set Fire To The Rain - Chords and Lyrics - Adele

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Another Adele song for a class to try out; students can learn structure, major/minor chords as well as beats per bar. Useful for KS4 pupils to try this song in a different genre. If you have any feedback please let me know! If some of the chords are different or sections of the song are missing it's to make the song easier to learn quicker.
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol - Chords and Lyrics
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Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol - Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Just The Way You Are - Chords and Lyrics
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Just The Way You Are - Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
I'm Yours - Chords and Lyrics
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I'm Yours - Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for I'm Yours by Jason Mraz. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music and use as a medley with Price Tag etc. (Check out Axis of Awesome on Youtube!!) Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!