This is an annotated .pdf of the .sib file (both attached) to help students understand how Minimalism compositions are constructed - texturally, melodically, harmonically and structurally, economy of ideas, exploitation of the medium - and being able to see key terms and to be able to learn them musically and not just a definition from a textbook! Any feedback would be gratefully received, thanks!

Ideal for Year 9 class - activities include: Quiz on basic facts of Salsa music Key features of son and big band + revision task Listen to 'Clocks&' in salsa style on Youtube Learn salsa rhythms Perform to &';Dreamcatch me' by Newton Faulkner (strong, pulsing beat to keep in time) &'Taboo&'; game of key features of Salsa This has been edited by another resource on TES so this isn't completely mine but edited! Any feedback would be great, thanks :)

Chords and lyrics for Bob Marley's Buffalo Soldier. Classes; building up a band; adding in guitars; bass guitars; drums; glockenspiels; singers; backing singers; percussion etc. Also; useful for students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music.

Year 8 homework - a mixture of identifying keys on a piano, intervals between letters of notes and reading basic treble clef to identify interval.\n\nAny feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful to have an electronic version of the glossary - handy to use to cut out, have students work in groups to work out which words they recognize/can match up with other definitions or can be used to associate key terms with particular pieces. It saves someone else typing it up, hopefully!

A useful start for Year 8 and 9 pupils into Romantic music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Romantic era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

The worksheet is a series of musical checkpoints - pupils put them in the order of what's happening in the music (see added Youtube link). First page of the Word document is the right order and the second page is the handout to groups/individuals. Can be edited to be used with other soundtracks or even orchestral or vocal pieces. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Year 9 introduction to Jazz - 3 videos of Michael Buble, Jamie Cullum and Louis Armstrong\n\nStudents learn 'added 6th&' chord, syncopation, walking bass, 3 different jazz rhythms and the 3 chords on the ukuleles.\n\nI planned to turn this into a group task but it&';s best to be led more by the teacher with stronger students playing 3 chords/the walking bass/improvising the melody on the glockenspiels/keyboards and the lower ability students to improvise rhythms on hand percussion/play the dotted rhythm on the hi-hat\n\nAny feedback would be great!

A series of weird and wacky composer facts that may be useful as a starter with Year 7s or 8s on the history of music. Examples include Beethoven's pre-composing ritual, Tchaikovsky's fear when performing and Debussy's obsession. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

e.g. What year was Chopin born, what number symphony did Bruckner write in 1869 etc. The answers are at the bottom of the page but pupils research the questions to find the best match answer from the bottom of the page to go with their research. Includes question and answer sheets Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A useful start for Year 8 (and even Year 7) pupils into Classical music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Classical era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Chords, lyrics, ukulele chords and, for some, notes to use for glockenspiels/pitched percussion players. The songs have been arranged to better fit student vocal ranges. Any feedback would be great!

A quick starter into learning the notes on a Bass Guitar fretboard - once the students work out the pattern they can fill in the missing notes. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

An A4 sheet of key features of styles of music - cut the sheet up and have pupils put them together. Can be used either as a starter or as a revision part of a lesson. You can edit/add/delete features to tailor it to your class.

A quick quiz on A Day In The Life by The Beatles.