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.

Very easy maths sheet for beginner groups with notation of rhythm

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.

Here are some worksheets to use with pupils that explain the parts of the Ukulele and shows how to read a chord frame. There are then a few worksheets going through simple chords in the key of C and then in the key of G. This leads into the four-chord trick and the worksheets provide this in the key of C and the key of G. The reason for this is that learning the chords in C is easier, but if the chords are learned in G it means that this resource can be used with the guitar resources I have created.

This resource includes 4 worksheets to help introduce pupils to the guitar and can be used within a scheme of work on the guitar. The first worksheet shows the guitar labeled and provides a blank version for pupils to fill in The second worksheet gives details on how to read a guitar frame for chords The third sheet gives 2 pages showing an easy version of the G chord and then E minor, and on the second page the easy version of the G chord, Em and D. The last worksheet shows the four-chord trick in the key of G on guitar frames. Finger numbers in the left hand are provided as a guide

This contains a Power Point and accompanying worksheets to teach year 9 about serial music. It covers constructing a note row from the 12 semitones and crating a Prime Row. This is then put to the rhythm of the tune Happy Birthday. Pupils then learn about using this row in retrograde form. The worksheets help the pupils construct their own versions of Happy Birthday using the Prime rows that they have created. Pupils then create two note chords using the retrograde row and put this with their prime row version of Happy Birthday. This gives pupils a complete piece to play that uses verticalisation techniques in a simple way. This work can then be developed so that chords with 3 or 4 notes are created with the retrograde row or the melody and chords could be made up just using a single note row.

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.

A resource for teaching the 12 bar blues chord progression using the guitar and keyboard. The guitar frames use open chords C, F and G and the keyboard chords are in root position triads. The chords are shown as C, F and G.