A simple sheet showing all of the keyboard keys (including enharmonics for the black keys). Easy to print and laminate to give to pupils to save writing all over the keyboards!

This resource guides students through creating a serial composition using a prime row that they create and the rhythm of Happy Birthday. The piece that they create will is entitled ‘Happy Birthday, Schoenberg!’. The next resource will focus on developing this so that the retrograde version of the row is used with verticalisation.

Film Music topic, primarily aimed at use with year 9, but suitable for use with any year group. This is a blank template that allows pupils to draw the scene, add information about instruments, important rhythmic patterns and chord progressions. There is space to add the page number to the document so that additional scenes can be added as required.

This worksheet shows the chords A, D and E and how to play them on the keyboard, guitar and ukulele.

A resource for the bass guitar in an ensemble performance of Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. The worksheet is in the key of A and shows the bass line notated in standard notation and TAB so that it fits with chords I, IV and V (or Chords A, D and E).

An information sheet for pupils to learn about the musical elements and understand their meanings. Useful as a quick reference sheet or revision of terminology. Can be used for GCSE pupils that are struggling with terminology and remembering important vocabulary.

This is a sheet I use for performing the song ‘Three Little Birds’ when I do a unit on Reggae with my year 8 group. This worksheet helps pupils to locate the notes for chords A, D and E on the keyboard, guitar and the strings on the bass guitar.

A simple sheet for students to play the tune Drunken Sailor. TAB and chords are provided for the guitarists. Notes (with note names) and chords are provided for the keyboard players.