Chords and lyrics for Jessie J's Price Tag. 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!

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 worksheet of associating certain instruments with heroes or villains. It doesn't contain any links to tracks but you can use certain film and TV theme tunes to use for associations. For example, Double Bass - Jaws - Villain. Trumpet - Indiana Jones - Hero. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Students research the definitions of musical elements and find words associated with the key term. E.g. Tempo = speed of a piece = allegro, largo, rallentando etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

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!

Chords and lyrics needed for the two songs by Emeli Sande and Coldplay. Includes ukulele chords as the first 4 slides, which can be printed and blu-tacked to the wall to the side of the interactive whiteboard. Any feedback you have would be great, thanks - any other 'mashups&' that would work?

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!

Useful for a starter for working out notes on a stave - once pupils work out how to apply FACE and ACEG they can complete the rest of the notes, cut out and stick in their books.

Musical checkpoints of Koko Yiri. The answers are filled in on this sheet so make sure they're deleted before handing them out!

Match the length of note, name and what it looks like to the descriptions provided. This can be used as a worksheet or each description cut up, put into envelopes and scattered at various points of the classroom. Can be used as part of a starter, plenary or main task. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Cut up the pictures of the instruments for pupils to put back together in a puzzle. Other instruments can be added and can be used as a starter for Year 7s or a fun activity for Year 9s in a multi-tasked lesson.

This is a presentation of steps to prepare students for Grade 5 Associated Board Music Theory. Students can use boomwhackers, xylophones, etc. to use examples and to create their own.

Lesson plan based on students creating a rhythm composition and combining what rhythm they hear with which musical symbols. Any feedback would be brill, thanks!

Print outs of the bass guitar fretboard for students to use when learning how to play the bass guitar. Useful for class band lessons - students can read the layout to work out which notes they need and evaluate which notes sound 'better'; higher pitch or lower pitch.

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!

Students compose a 4 bar composition in stages - chords and their rhythms then a melody and their rhythms. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

This is a fun game as part of the end of a lesson or start to look at composers. Students have to work out the composer/band/singer from pictures e.g. the example is a picture of a door handle; from there the students 'say what they see' and work

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!

An open task for KS3 - Year 7 task or Year 9 revision. Feel free to cater it to the needs of your class, there are lots of other key terms that can be added and lots of other tasks that can branch off from this.

Mix of audio, visual, written questions and mini essay at the end. Answers on duplicate slides at the end. If you are using it and want to include the audio questions do have a look through the answers to the audio questions as it'll either tell you or give you an idea of when to play the track. Feedback would be great, thanks!