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Year 2

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Notating and sharing music
  • Playing together in an ensemble
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

This unit builds on previous work on pitch and notation. Pupils embed their understanding of do, mi, so, la, using these tones to both play a known melody and improvise on pitched percussion. Pupils continue to study stick notation, using this to support their improvisations. Through the contrast of written notation and improvisation, pupils develop their understanding of the difference between composition and improvisation.

  1. Performing four note tonesets on pitched percussion
  2. Call and response improvisation within a four note toneset
  3. Learning a four note melody on pitched percussion
  4. Reading and playing using simplified notation
  5. Playing within an ABA musical structure
  6. Performing and improvising within an ABA structure
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