Four approx. 15 minute activities (one for each year group in KS2) based on music from the Renaissance Era. Focus: Renaissance composers; instruments; song types; performance venues; virtuoso performers; texture types.

This is a series of lessons teaching students the basics of the patterns beatmaker in Soundtrap. N.B. you will need a Soundtrap Education Subscription to use this with your students. This scheme of work was originally used for online learning but can be adapted to in person. Lesson 1 - Beatmaker Basics! To set up a Soundtrap for Education account To know what the Patterns Beatmaker is To know what a bar is and how the Patterns Beatmaker is laid out into bars and smaller beat divisions To understand how beats in popular music are usually counted in groups of 4 beats called bars Lesson 2 - Pop Back Beats! To understand how the word beat is used in a variety of contexts and what other musical vocabulary can be used (instrumental, tempo, pulse, rhythm and BPM) To know what a backbeat is and understand that it is typically used in pop and rock music To be able to create a backbeat using the Patterns Beatmaker Lesson 3 - Drill Beats! To know that drill music typically uses: a fast tempo of usually 140bpm; an 808 Bass; and an off-beat hi-hat drum pattern. To be able to create a typical drill beat using the Patterns Beatmaker To know what a loop is To be able to play the synth in Soundtrap Lesson 4 - Afrobeats! To know and be able to identify the typical rhythmic features of Afrobeats music To be able to create a typical Afrobeats beat using the Patterns Beatmaker Lesson 5 - Trap Beats! To know and be able to identify the typical rhythmic features of Trap music To be able to create a typical Trap beat using the Patterns Beatmaker

I cut these out and put them up on a washing line in my classroom to remind kids of the music key words!

This resource contains four activities - one 15 minute task per year group for KS2 about Baroque Music. The tasks are discussion based and don’t require students to write.

A music sequencing guide to soundtrap. This can be used to support the BTEC First Award in Music for Unit 7.

I made this set of ten posters to promote careers in music in my department! They include: Music producer Composer Session Musician Acoustics Engineer Conductor Music Therapist Artist Management Music Journalism Music Teacher Performer Display title ‘Where Can Music Take Me?’ is also included. Hope they are useful to some people.

Use this link to access my Canva version of our practice room rules, this can be edited to suit school needs: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGHvu-sUSQ/4uyUl6TnYdU8yT24Jlhp2g/view?utm_content=DAGHvu-sUSQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor