Key Stage 3
Introduction to 7th chords and how to play them on guitar
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
A basic Folk / Rock strumming pattern in 4/4
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
How to play the guitar introduction to "What's my age again?" by Blink 182
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
Introduction to "Come as you are" by Nirvana, with brief musical analysis
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
Vertical black lines called bar lines divide the staff into bars.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Time Signatures, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
Video guide to putting together multi-layered afro-cuban rhythm percussion, with parts for Guiro, Claves, Timbales, Congas and Bongos.
Official classification: Percussion, Bongos, Congas, Guiro, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together
Video lesson demonstrating the Conga Tumbao pattern and variations, played along with the Clave.
Official classification: Congas, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 1c Controlling sounds - performing together
Short video with a few tips on playing jazz bass guitar.
Official classification: Bass Guitar, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Unit 8. Jazz improvisations
Video lesson, focussing on exercises to practise playing a downbeat Clave rhythm along with different pulses (whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note).
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Rhythm, Video, Claves, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Introductory video lesson on playing Clave rhythm.
Official classification: Pulse (Beat), Rhythm, Video, Claves, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Video tips for constructing a drum solo.
Official classification: Drum Kit, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 2a Creating and developing - improvising
Video lesson focussing on using rhythmic devices and stylistic expression when playing jazz melodies. Examples of Swing and Bossa Nova rhythms.
Official classification: Improvising, Rhythm, Video, Curriculum support, 2a Creating and developing - improvising, Alto Sax, Unit 8. Jazz improvisations
Video lesson focussing on improvisation using simple three or four note motives. Demonstrated on the Alto Sax.
Official classification: Improvising, Rhythm, Video, Curriculum support, 2a Creating and developing - improvising, Alto Sax
Video lesson demonstrating left and right hand muting techniques on Bass Guitar.
Official classification: Bass Guitar, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
Video singing lesson on warming up the voice with a groove.
Official classification: Singing Techniques, High, low and changing, Example Voices, Video, Voice, Female, Male, 1a Controlling sounds - singing
Vic Firth artist and educator Eduardo Leandro is a Professor of Percussion at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Accompanied by Yeon-Su Kim on violin, Eduardo performs Astor Piazzolla's "L'histoire du tango, Cafe" in concert podcast.
Official classification: Percussion, Video, 4d Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - context, Vic Firth
Music animation machine - Bach Organ Trio Sonata III (BWV 527), 3rd movement.
Official classification: Classical Pieces, Video, Sonata, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols
Video tutorial from the drum tutor
Official classification: Drums, Snare Drum, Percussive Sounds, Video, Curriculum support, 1b Controlling sounds - playing
This app offers 6 characteristic drum rhythms from the Bird Dance (track 7 of Saydisc Listen To This KS3). Pupils can string them together in any order to compose a percussion accompaniment for their own chants.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Rhythm, Interactive Activities, Chanting, Curriculum support, 2a Creating and developing - improvising, 2b Creating and developing - reflective composing, 2a Creating and developing - improvising, 2b Creating and developing - reflective composing, List Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Interactive sound matching activity featuring an aeroplane, a helicopter and a space shuttle.
Official classification: Non-Musical Sounds, Space, Unit 1. Ongoing skills, Unit 2. Sounds interesting - Exploring sounds, Similar Sound Collections, Interactive Activities, Unit 18 Journey Into Space, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare