How can we describe the music of Yemi Alade?

Music

What role does rhythm play in West African music?

How are signals used to define the structure in some West African music?

Improvising creative rhythms

How can drums be used for communication?

What are the role of different percussion instruments, and how can we best describe their sounds?

Which pitches do some West African melodies use and why?

How does some West African music exploit the elements rhythm, texture and sonority?

How do we decide how to structure a composition so that it has a sense of direction?

How can we add interest to a musical structure?

How is music in some West African countries taught and learnt?

How is melody and rhythm used in some Ghanaian music?

Does West African music shared ideas across this continent?

West African Music

Fusion music can only be fused with African music.

Fusion music combines two music styles together to create a new musical style.

Fusion music combines West African music with American funk and jazz.

What two genres does 'Old Town Road X' fuse?

Afrobeat fuses West African music traditions with American funk and jazz whereas afrobeats fuses the tradition with any other genre from around the world.

Afrobeat fuses West African music traditions with American funk and jazz whereas afrobeats fuses the tradition with R&B, pop and dancehall.

What is the difference between afrobeat and afrobeats?

Chose two styles and combine the musical features using the instruments at our disposal.

Play two audio clips from songs from different genres at the same time.

Take the lyrics from a song and combine them with the lyrics from another song.

What would western musicians say the time signature of Mede brebre masi ta was?

No - It is spoken but there is a drum accompaniment

Two instruments playing the same rhythm at the same time

Two rhythms that interweave with each other

Two rhythms with different pulses played at the same time

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.

How can we describe the music of Yemi Alade?

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.