Does West African music shared ideas across this continent?

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?

How can we describe the music of Yemi Alade?

West African Music

Celebrating different traditions in her music videos

Featuring artist from different African countries

Using different African languages and dialects

Which is the following is NOT a way Yemi Alade breaks down barriers between nations using her music?

Which of the following is not a common instrument in West African music

A texture where a melody is accompanied by chords

When two or more rhythms are played at the same time that interweave

When two rhythms with different pulses are played at the same time

A griot is a leader, musician, story teller, historian who shares infomation using the oral tradition

A griot is a method of learning songs in West Africa

The name of the conversation you have when you visit the griot

Where art, ideas and culture are orally transmitted from generation to generation

What viral dance move came from Afrobeats?

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.

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

Does West African music shared ideas across this continent?

Lesson outcome

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