Styles Booklet (Rock N Roll, Reggae, Ballads in 6/8)

This booklet covers 3 styles of music, including Rock N’ Roll, Reggae and Ballads in 6/8. This booklet is a keyboard based project, and focuses on How chords and bassline fit together and sound different with the features of each style.

Breakdown of what the booklet contains is the following:
-Flexible pages for starter questions
-Lesson 1: Introduction to Rock N’ Roll, through Hound Dog by Elvis Presley and learning 12 bar blues chord sequence in C.
-Lesson 2: Introduction to walking bassline of Hound Dog and learning to play it.
-Lesson 3: Combining the chord and walking bassline in a pair, and performing it (+space for feedback).
-Lesson 4: Introduction to Reggae, through Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, and learning the chords (original key of A major).
-Lesson 5: Learning the melodic bassline of Three Little Birds.
-Lesson 6: Combining the Chords and Bassline of Three Little Birds in a pair (+space for feedback)
-Lesson 7: Introduction to 6/8 time signatures and learning broken chords of Fallin’ Alicia Keys.
-Lesson 8: learning bassline of Alicia Keys - Fallin’.
-Lesson 9: Putting bassline and Broken chords of Fallin’ together in a pair. (+space for feedback)
-Knowledge quiz
-Lesson 10-11: Assessment rehearsal and performance - picking one of the styles and using the key features of that style to arrange some chords into a stylistically accurate composition.
-Success criteria

• Feedback on assessment page.
• Knowledge Organiser

*the project may take slightly less/more time depending on how quickly students pick up each style e.g. in my experience, the Reggae song is more difficult to play so can take students 2 lessons to fit bassline and chords together successfully, rather than the 1 lesson listed above, but other styles may not take all 3 lessons.