Key Knowledge

Listen and Appraise

• To know 5 songs off by heart.

● To know what the songs are about.

● To know and recognise the sound and names of some of the instruments they use.
Games:

● To know that music has a steady pulse, like a heartbeat.

● To know that we can create rhythms from words, our names, favourite

food, colours and animals.
Singing

To confidently sing or rap five songs from memory and sing them in unison

Playing

● Learn the names of the notes in their instrumental part from memory

or when written down.

● Learn the names of the instruments they are playing.

Improvisation

● Improvisation is about making up your own tunes on the spot.

● When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has

never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.

● Everyone can improvise!

Composition

● Composing is like writing a story with music.

● Everyone can compose.

Performance

A performance is sharing music with other people, called an audience.

Key Skills

Listen and appraise

To learn how they can enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.

Games

● FInd the pulse. Choose an animal and find the pulse

● Listen to the rhythm and clap back. Copy back short rhythmic phrases based on words, with one and two syllables whilst marching to the steady beat.

● Create rhythms for others to copy

● Listen and sing back. Use voices to copy back using ‘la’, whist marching to the steady beat

● Listen and sing back, and some different vocal warm-ups. Use your voices to copy back using ‘la’.

Singing

● Learn about voices, singing notes of different pitches (high and low).

● Learn that they can make different types of sounds with their voices –

you can rap or say words in rhythm.

● Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader.

Playing

Treat instruments carefully and with respect.

● Play a tuned instrumental part with the song they perform.

● Learn to play an instrumental part that matches their musical

challenge, using one of the differentiated parts (a one-note part, a simple part, medium part).

● Listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.

Improvisation

1. Clap and Improvise – Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

2. Sing, Play and Improvise – Use voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using one or two notes.

3. Improvise! – Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes.

Composition

● Help to create a simple melody using one, two or three notes.

● Learn how the notes of the composition can be written down and changed if necessary.

Performance

● Choose a song they have learnt from the Scheme and perform it.

● They can add their ideas to the performance.

● Record the performance and say how they were feeling about it.

Key Vocabulary

Inter related dimensions of music

Music has lots of different parts to it which are all linked together forming the inter-related dimensions.

Structure - how a piece is organised.  It may include:

Introduction - a short section to start the piece

Verse - 1 or more verses (verses have the same tune but different words)

Chorus -a repeated section within a song (often after a verse)

Ending - a section which finishes a piece of music

Pulse - the heartbeat of the music

Rhythm - the mixture of long and short sounds that is played to the pulse

Pitch - whether the sounds are high or low

Tempo - the speed of the music

Dynamics - the volume changes and gets louder or quieter

Timbre - the sounds the different instruments make

Texture - the layers of different sounds within a piece

Improvise - make up a piece of music on the spot (improvisation is not written down)

 Compose - create a piece of music, edit it and finalise it, often written down

Hook - a part of the piece that hooks us in. Often the part we keep singing / playing

Instruments:

Bass - a type of guitar which plays low notes

Drum kit - a mixture of different sized drums and cymbals which are played together

Guitar - a string instrument with 6 strings.  Guitars can be electric (plugged in to make a sound) or acoustic (played without being plugged in)

Keyboard

Synthesizer - a type of keyboard that is able to sound like lots of other instruments.