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Mr Gray's Music Shop

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I am a specialist primary music teacher living and teaching in Devon. I have 20 years experience of teaching and love creating resources. As well as creating my own resources I have also created resources for companies such as ABRSM. I am also a professional and published composer of Brass band and Concert Band music. Check out my Youtube page - www.youtube.com/musicwithmrgray I play trumpet professionally in a ska/reggae/dub band called The Kingstons (www.thekingstons.club).

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I am a specialist primary music teacher living and teaching in Devon. I have 20 years experience of teaching and love creating resources. As well as creating my own resources I have also created resources for companies such as ABRSM. I am also a professional and published composer of Brass band and Concert Band music. Check out my Youtube page - www.youtube.com/musicwithmrgray I play trumpet professionally in a ska/reggae/dub band called The Kingstons (www.thekingstons.club).
Spring by Vivaldi classroom arrangement
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Spring by Vivaldi classroom arrangement

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This is a classroom arrangement of Spring by Vivaldi for tuned percussion and/or Boom Whackers. The colours intentionally match the colours of Boom Whackers and various percussion instruments for ease. Enjoy!
Recorder Duet - Let's Rock!
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Recorder Duet - Let's Rock!

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Recorder duet - Let’s Rock! Uses the notes C, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C and D. This resource includes play along track and backing track (perfect for performances) and sheet music.
Recorder duet - Easy going
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Recorder duet - Easy going

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Easy going recorder duet. This is a duet for recorders that also gives players the opportunity to improvise. This resource includes sheet music (with and without note names) and play along/backing tracks.
Band pieces  - Easy going
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Band pieces - Easy going

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Easy going is written for Recorder, Ukulele, Boomwhackers and tuned percussion (glockenspiel, xylophone). This piece also gives players the opportunity to improvise! This resource includes sheet music (with and without note names) and play along/backing tracks.
Band pieces - Latin nights
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Band pieces - Latin nights

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Get your class playing together with Latin nights! Latin nights is written for Ukulele, Recorder, Boomwhackers and Tuned percussion and gives students the opportunity to improvise Resource includes: Sheet music (with and without written notes) Play along and backing track
Band pieces - Changes
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Band pieces - Changes

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Get your class playing together with Changes! Changes is written for Ukulele, Recorder, Boomwhackers and Tuned percussion. Resource includes: Sheet music (with and without written notes) Play along and backing track
Recorder play alongs - Low C
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Recorder play alongs - Low C

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Learn to play the note C (Low) on recorder with these 4 play alongs! Resource includes sheet music (with and without note names) and play along/backing tracks.
Musical stories
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Musical stories

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In this topic the children will be given the opportunity to develop their compositional skills by writing music for their own version of the well known musical story Peter and the Wolf as well as helping to create their own musical story. The children will be able to creatively think about how different instruments/sounds/textures can help to portray a particular character, creature and/or emotion. The children will be given the task of creating their own story using pictures and writing and then adding a musical score to it. This topic will also allow the children to continue developing their singing skills by singing the fun song ‘Shake my sillies out’ as well as developing their musical thinking skills by determining which sounds/instruments suit certain scenarios/characters/scenes the best. This topic is very engaging from start to finish with plenty of activities and original lesson starters, Enjoy!
Music of the Far East
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Music of the Far East

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This topic explores music of the Far East including the following countries: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Polynesia, Bali and Java. Year 5 will also learn about the importance of the pentatonic scale in Chinese music. They will be given the opportunity to learn to play a traditional piece of Chinese music (Jasmine Flower) on tuned percussion and keyboards and will also be set the task of composing their own piece of music using the pentatonic scale. The class will also be given the opportunity to learn to sing a Filipino & Polynesian song as well as taking part in a classroom Gamelan activity for the last two weeks (they will use classroom tuned percussion to create Gamelan style music). As well as broadening their musical listening and experiences this topic is also great for linking with geography and history too.
Rock/Pop band pieces
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Rock/Pop band pieces

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Here are a selection of pieces for rock and pop bands. They includes parts for Guitar (riff and chords), Bass Guitar, Drums, Keyboard/Piano and Vocals (lyrics). Some of the keys have been changed to suit children’s voices/make them easier to play (child friendly keys) Enjoy :)
Compose a song (KS2 & KS3)
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Compose a song (KS2 & KS3)

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This is a short project I did with KS2. It contains a Powerpoint with all the relevant information about how to write your own song. You will need to link music to the relevant pictures. It has music for a class to play 'I Gotta Feeling&' by the Black Eyed Peas. There is also a very basic lesson plan with it.
Faded by Alan Walker
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Faded by Alan Walker

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This is a classroom arrangement of Faded by Alan Walker. Suitable for Boomwhackers, tuned percussion and ukuleles and guitars. Enjoy!
Classroom Gamelan
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Classroom Gamelan

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This is from my Music of the Far East topic. It's a piece of Gamelan style music that can be played using classroom percussion (Tuned and un-tuned). It's colour coded to help children play the piece with relative ease. I've attached a WAV file of the the piece. Enjoy!
Riffs on percussion
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Riffs on percussion

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This is a selection of well known riffs for percussion. They all use the notes in on octave of the C Major Scale, so perfect for classroom percussion. Each riff comes with a coloured version to be used with coloured Boom Whackers and Chimes. Faded - Alan Walker Dance Monkey - Tones and I Shape of you - Ed Sheeran Seven nation army - The white stripes Eye of the tiger - Survivor