Orchestral Music Scheme of Work. Suitable for AQA GCSE Music students A complete powerpoint, listening and assessment materials for the Orchestral Music of Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven. Includes: Various activities (Sibelius files for performances and some composition activities) and questions to test students Youtube links to relevant listening Listening tests at the end with assessment sheets and mark scheme (on ppt). Used over several weeks, depending on the ability of the students. Relevant resources: Piano Music Coronation Anthems and Oratorios Popular Music Film and Computer Gaming Music

Popular Music Scheme of Work. Suitable for AQA GCSE Music students A complete powerpoint, listening and assessment materials for Popular Music Includes: Various activities (Sibelius files for performances and some composition activities) and questions to test students Youtube links to relevant listening Listening tests at the end with assessment sheets and mark scheme (on ppt). Used over several weeks, depending on the ability of the students. See also: Film and Computer Gaming Music Piano Music Coronation Anthems and Oratorios Orchestral Music

Listening exercise after teaching AQA AOS 1 Coronation Anthems and Oratorios.

Orchestral Music listening assessment after teaching AoS 1 Orchestral Music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn.

A SOW for learning about the use of music in advertisements. Students must create a product, design an advert for it; including various musical devices and present that advert. Resources include: A PowerPoint guiding student through the creation of a product including various activities. Planning sheet and listening activity sheet Sheet music for Jingles (sibelius file) and WAGOLL’s of Jingles (could be used as an exercise to create jingles) Additional or cover work Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

A SOW designed around ‘The Great Composers’ focussing on Beethoven and performing Fur Elise on piano. Resources include: A powerpoint with lots of activities - starters, homework etc. Sheet music for Fur Elise both pdf and Sibelius files WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) for Fur Elise Audio clips and YouTube video links for listening activities Extension pieces if needed. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

This resources is designed to allow students to learn a piece of Folk music by rote and then try to work out the notes. It requires students to first watch a YouTube video and then fill in the notes by either using a keyboard, or a virtual keyboard (Information given in the resource). Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

This resource allows students to complete a rehearsal diary for their musical practice. It contains a help guide at the beginning to give ideas to students on how well they are doing and what they need to do to improve, as well as sentence starters to improve longer written work. This is particularly useful if following the RSL exam board as this can be used to help students start to log their progress on their instrument. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

This is a scheme of work on Ragtime Music and ending in Jazz music. It includes resources for learning ‘The Entertainer’ as a piano solo piece and ‘In The Mood’ as an ensemble piece plus a PowerPoint with activities and guided learning. Resources include: Ragtime Powerpoint The Entertainer piano sheet music (simplified for students and including an extension piece) in both pdf and Sibelius files. The Entertainer video WAGOLL’s (what a good one looks like) In The Mood sheet music including acoustic, electric and bass guitar, ukulele, advanced and beginner piano, and voice Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

A differentiated ukulele chord chart. Useful if teaching ukulele to mixed ability groups. Bullet points and diagram to explain how to read chord diagrams. Chords ranked from Simple, Moderate, Difficult and Very Difficult. I’ve printed this out in large and have it as a display, along with other useful notation reading. I also use it with classes when I introduce ukulele and with extra curricular groups. Attached is the powerpoint in case you want to modify it, plus a pdf for printing. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

Students can’t get hold of an instrument to practice ukulele? Want them to be able to read chord diagrams ready to practice when they get back into school? Here’s an activity which tests your student’s ability to read ukulele chord diagrams. Complete with help guide, follow up questions you might have asked if you were teaching them face to face and extension activity for keen students. Answers also provided for ease of assessment or self assessment. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

Hi, I wrote this lesson for an interview. The purpose being to enthuse students in singing and to perform ‘These Days’ by Rudimental. It contains a lesson plan, a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) video, a backing track and the presentation. The lesson takes into context many key words that could be learnt whilst also learning to sing a piece of music. You could print out some of the slides for students to read the lyrics and also to check their pitching on an instrument. The interview was a 25 minute lesson, but it could be stretched out to ensure students perform with fluency. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

Eight full listening questions relating to each area of AoS 2 (Musicals, Rock Music, Film and Computer Game Music and Pop Music). Includes printable papers and a mark scheme. YouTube links to the extracts are given and some music is embedded into the PowerPoints. Perfect if you are running a revision session on AoS 2 or if you want to do an end of unit listening assessment. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me!

Film and Computer Gaming Music Scheme of Work. Suitable for AQA GCSE Music students A complete powerpoint, listening and assessment materials for Film and Computer Gaming Music from the 1990s to the present Includes: Various activities and questions to test students Youtube links to relevant listening Listening tests at the end with assessment sheets and mark scheme (on ppt). Used over several weeks, depending on the ability of the students. Please leave a review if you purchase. Your feedback is very important to me! Relevant resources: Popular Music Piano Music Coronation Anthems and Oratorios Orchestral Music

Do you run a club and need a resource for beginner guitarists? Do you need students to be working independently? This resource is perfect for those situations where you have loads of students asking for help and you can’t help them all at once. It contains various popular riffs that students can choose from along with a WAGOLL video for each and an explanation of how to read Guitar TAB.

A song to learn about what Suspended, Augmented and Diminished chords sound like & how to create them!

A song to learn about what Major, Minor, Major 7th, Minor 7th and Dominant 7th Chords sound like & how to create them!

Learn about the parts of a song: Drum Beat, Chords, Bass line and Melody.

How many rhythms can you fit in a bar of four? Learn how to read basic rhythmic values. 4 beats - Semibreve 2 beats - Minim 1 beat - Crotchet 1/2 beat - Quaver 1/4 beat - Semiquaver

Video to help music teachers during the options process. I know the struggles of showing schools and educators that Music is important. It is vital that we keep music in the curriculum and not just as an extra. Students should study music at least at KS3, whether it is their passion or not and no school should take away the opportunity for students to study music further if they choose to. Everyone should be able to express themselves through music and the arts.