To help students with their aural skills, I have made a worksheet for students to focus on four elements. Texture, dynamics, tempo, and instruments. I use this grid system for students to help them focus and listen to music outside of a question or exam paper. This is suitable for any music class: Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert and general music appreciation Please make sure to give feedback and a rating if you are happy with this product! Thank you very much!

This is a free printout for the elements of music. Great for students to stick to the inside/back cover of their copies for easy access Please make sure to give feedback and a rating if you are happy with this product! Thank you very much!

This is a guide to Junior Cycle Music Processing Effects (May also be helpful for the analysis of Queen Bohemian Rhapsody in Leaving Cert Music) This takes students through a written understanding of music mixing effects such as reverb, delay, compression, distortion and more. I would greatly appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

This resource involves a back to school bingo activity. This is a great game to add to your lessons for breaking the ice after the summer break. There is one calling card and 30 playing cards to be printed. The words used are random words related to music. Thank you for looking and downloading this resource! Enjoy!

This resource is a fun way for students to share their favourite songs. This resource lets students make a playlist of 4 songs. Once they finish their playlist, there is a space for them to draw the cover art of their favourite song. This is a great way for students to ease into their music classes, with a chance to have fun and show the teachers what music they like! @ocmusicfiles on instagram

This is a worksheet aimed at looking at how music plays a role in film/tv. Music has the power to change how a viewer perceives a movie, therefore students can have some fun with the short film ‘Piper’ (which can be found on Disney+). Youtube also has great music to use alongside changing the mood of music, or students can pick a song to change the mood. Simply mute the ‘Piper’ video and play a different song in the background. This worksheet includes questions about: The role music has on mood in films How changing the music in a film can change the story Section to create a graphic score

This is a booklet with helpful study tips for students. It highlights the different learning styles and helps students create a study schedule Page 1: Study Tips Page 2 and 3: What type of learner are you? and how you can study to best suit your style of learning Page 4: Time Management Page 5: Template timetable for studying I would greatly appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

This summarizes how to create a major scale using tones and semi tones. There is also a blank piano template to help students to navigate the tones and semi tones.

This is a blank music stave with two pages, one is your standard single line stave and the second page is for bass and treble cleff. This is a suitable resource for taster music classes or if a student forgets their manuscript copy. Enjoy!

This resource is a list of major and minor intervals, with songs that can help students identify them. Benefits of learning how to identify intervals: -Students have a better understanding of how note distances sound while writing -melodies in exams/without an instrument -Training their musical ear  -Helps them with relative pitch -Better understand the relationships between two notes  -Helps with sight singing This resource includes one A4 sheet. This is great for students to stick into an A4 copy or folder, or simply to hang on the wall. This resource comes with a black and white version, as well as a colour version.

This sheet is aimed at Junior Cycle music under the learning outcome: “Create a musical statement (such as a rap or an advertising jingle) about a topical issue or current event and share with others the statements’ purpose and development” However, can be useful for any music class to boost creativity. Included in this resource: Jingle Planner (brand, slogans, product) A section for songwriting and chords I would greatly appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

This is a three page work book for building students aural skills. The first page involves: listening grid exercise: Focusing on tempo, dynamics, instruments and texture The second page includes: Listening tips on how to build music listening skills The third page: An instrument aural ear training exercise I would greatly appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

This booklet was created to replicate the process of creating music for film. To begin with this booklet, the teacher/educator will begin by selecting a scene from a film to work on throughout this task. Included in this booklet Test Screening Evaluation (here students act as the audience to gain a perspective of the scene, although not music specific, it gives students an audience perspective before they become the composer) Score Spotting list (here students will watch the scene without any sound) How to compose a score (students will start to work on their plan) 4.**** Composing a score**** (here students use their plan to create music, I advise to use musecore, bandlab or allowing students to compose using instruments) Enjoy! I would greatly appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

Bring your students back in time to the Renaissance! This presentation is in PDF format and includes two lessons. This outlines a brief history about the renaissance and goes through the type of music during this time. Youtube links to resources found about each instrument and music included in this lesson also. Lesson 1 includes: Brief history Instruments Features Singing exercise (polyphonic feature of renaissance ) Lesson 2 Recap previous lesson Listening activity Musical Bingo (the bingo cards are not included. for this you need to pick key words you find suitable for your class and to create the game from there. This can be done by writing 8-10 words on the board and asking students to write any 6 into their copy. You can then pull each word out of a hat and which ever student has all keywords first wins.) I would appreciate any feedback and a 5 star rating if you enjoy the product! Thank you for choosing to shop in my online store!

Trailer Film Music Activity This activity works on looking at how music can change the mood of a trailer. Students love to watch scenes from their favourite films, so this is a great activity for working with film music. This resource includes: Teacher guide to using this activity  3 sections to work on 3 different trailers Each sheet includes questions to keep students on task and to analyse the music

A4 Music posters of tempo and articulation definitions to hang in your classroom. 9 posters included in this resource of : Articulation Staccato & Legato  Tempo Largo  Adagio Moderato Andante  Allegro Presto This resource is in PDF format Thank you for choosing to shop with my resources!

This is a two page resource. Page 1: A word search for students to recap key words Page 2: A section for students to write the definition out for each of the words. PDF Format - Words in word search: - CHORALE - ARIA - RECITATIVE - CADENCE - MODULATION - OSTINATO - MELISMA - CANON - COUNTERPOINT - SEQUENCE

Music Wordsearch - Tempo and Dynamics This wordsearch is great for students to recap key words in music. The students must use one colour pen for finding the dynamic related words, and a different colour for finding the tempo words. This will test students knowledge, while also building their music vocabulary. Bonus tip: Ask students to write out the definitions next to each key word. The words involved in this resource: Lento Grave Vivace Andante Presto Piano Largo Adagio Forte Moderato Pianissimo Fortissimo Allegro

This resource contains 6 music posters to help support the teaching of dynamics. The posters are A4 size in pdf format. The posters include Explanation of Dynamics Piano Forte Chart to show pp --> ff Crescendo Decrescendo Thank you for choosing to shop with me!

This resource includes an easy to understand explanation of: – Explaining what a cadence is – Explaining the difference between finished and unfinished cadences – Finished: Perfect and Plagal cadences – Unfinished: Imperfect and Interrupted cadences This is a great resource for students to stick into their copy books or folders. It is an A4 size and is in PDF format. Thank you for taking the time to look and shop at my online store.