the main melody or theme often used when referring to jazz music

adapting how an existing piece of music is going to sound, for example changing the instrumentation

a musical thought, like a sentence in a story

a measure of musical time with a set number of beats (e.g. 4 beats in 4-time)

creative, in-the-moment musical composition

Five Notes in a Pentatonic

British English CC

Task A - Head - slow tempo

Head - with claves on the offbeat

Task B - eight bar backing track (fast tempo)

Four bar improvisation - what makes this effective?

Task B - eight bar backing track (slow tempo)

Task B - backing track (moderate tempo)

H.E.L.L.O (four part round) - video

Bate Bate Chocolate - audio

Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar? - example video

Improvising longer phrases using the D minor pentatonic scale

Music

Improvisation and the minor pentatonic scale

Playing the D minor pentatonic scale

Playing a minor pentatonic jazz melody

Improvising a phrase using the D minor pentatonic scale

Creating and performing an improvised jazz piece

In this unit, pupils listen to improvisation in jazz ensembles. Using the minor pentatonic scale on pitched percussion, they learn a minor pentatonic melody and practise tools to guide successful improvisation including repetition and sequencing.

Compose and rehearse: improvising with the minor pentatonic scale

A new {{}} of a piece can be created by changing or adding to the instrumentation.

A call and response is a __________ musical structure that can help to shape improvised melodies.

If a piece is in 4-time, a four bar phrase will contain how many beats?

To create balance, we can follow an ascending phrase with a {{}} phrase.

The minor pentatonic scale is the built on the following tones: __________, do, re, mi, so.

the layering of multiple short, repeated musical ideas (cells)

a music genre from New Orleans characterised by improvisation

improvising over a framework of a raag and a taal

use of the mouth and voice to mimic sounds such as a drum machine

Match the musical genre to its definition.

What does it mean to clap on the offbeat in 4-time?

they are both the same, they are just different names for percussion

pitched percussion instruments are not used to play melodies

unpitched percussion instruments cannot play high or low notes

pitched percussion instruments can be used to play melodies

What is the difference between pitched and unpitched percussion?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Improvising longer phrases using the D minor pentatonic scale

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.