Introduction to Keyboards Booklet

This Introduction to Keyboards booklet is designed to start give students a solid grounding in how to use the keyboard. It has every resource you would need for the entire project including space for starter questions, introductions to rhythmic notation, melodic notation, composition, playing with 2 hands and an assessment.

The first few pages of the booklet are for ‘starter’ questions, which can be used at the start of each lesson and can be tailored to individual classes.
The next pages introduce notes on the keyboard and starts to introduce rhythmic notation.
Then it moves on to melodic notation and students start to use and combine this with rhythmic notation.
Once students have got to grips with melodic and rhythmic notation, the next page is designed to test that and embed the learning they have done on this.
There is a mid-unit knowledge quiz, testing students on their knowledge gained so far.
Then there are a few pages on composition, so students can start to apply the knowledge they have gained on rhythmic and melodic notation.
Next, there are pages are on playing with 2 hands on the keyboard.
Finally there is a practical assessment, which encompasses all the learning, which has success criteria and a feedback grid, and finally a Knowledge Organiser for the back page.