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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.

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Resources include lesson plans for KS3-5 Music lessons and PSHEE, software guides, chords and lyrics for songs and, more recently, sheet music of own choral compositions.
Forget You Chords and (edited) Lyrics
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Forget You Chords and (edited) Lyrics

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Chords and edited lyrics for Cee Lo Green's Forget You. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Just The Way You Are - Chords and Lyrics
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Just The Way You Are - Chords and Lyrics

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Chords and lyrics for Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!
Film Composer Puzzles
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Film Composer Puzzles

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A series of facts associated with either Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, John Williams and Thomas Newman. Students research online to work out which fact is associated with which composer. Facts taken from Wikipedia.
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms A2 Music questions
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Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms A2 Music questions

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A list of questions on the harmony and themes of the Symphony of Psalms: Stravinsky. Cut up each sentence and students find the answer for the question. The amount of points per question determines the difficulty of the question. No answers are provided so students have to show you the answer or prove the answer. Can be used for other elements of the Stravinsky or other elements of the other set works.
AS Vocal Set Works numbers
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AS Vocal Set Works numbers

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At the bottom of the sheet are numbers - fill in the statement of the various set works with the appropriate number. The actual list is at the bottom of the page so don't forget to remove that before handing out to students! Also, please make sure to check the numbers - I have a feeling one or two may not be correct!
Major and minor chords homework
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Major and minor chords homework

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Year 8 homework - previous topic is on tones and semitones - helps students to work out notes in the chords, accidentals needed and how to write them on the bass clef. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Fix You - Coldplay; chords and lyrics
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Fix You - Coldplay; chords and lyrics

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Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Vocal and Instrumental composer history points
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Vocal and Instrumental composer history points

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Key points of the background of composers typed out into sentences. They can be cut up for the students to assemble into groups of the various composers. They can be further developed by adding in a Cloze passage element to them. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Yellow - Coldplay; chords and lyrics
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Yellow - Coldplay; chords and lyrics

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Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music  A Level
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Bach Chorale Handbook: Edexcel Music A Level

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A guide of how to harmonise Bach Chorales. This includes; *example Bach chorales *theory exercises to prepare for harmonising Bach chorales *practice questions *ways to harmonise cadences and phrases using stock progressions *methods to include more sophistication including modulations, cadential 6-4s, diminished chords and suspensions More resources available on my page.
Guitar fretboard layout
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Guitar fretboard layout

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A cut-out guitar fretboard layout for students - useful for class band lessons, students can learn how to read the layout and work out which notes they may need. Any feedback would be great, thanks!
Something's Coming lyrics
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Something's Coming lyrics

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Can be used for students to cut up and put into order. Also useful to group the lyrics in order to see how many verses there are and how short they are.