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Year 6

Compose and rehearse: improvising with the minor pentatonic scale

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Music over time and in different places
  • Practising and preparing for a performance

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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.

In this unit, we introduce a fourth five-note scale, with the pupils now having learnt the major pentatonic, major and minor pentachords and now the minor pentatonic. Having a sound study of tuned percussion behind them, they are now in a position to improvise effectively and fluently over a chord sequence. Improvising whilst considering repetition, balance and sequencing will give pupils the foundations they need in the later notated composition unit.

  1. Improvisation and the minor pentatonic scale
  2. Playing the D minor pentatonic scale
  3. Playing a minor pentatonic jazz melody
  4. Improvising a phrase using the D minor pentatonic scale
  5. Improvising longer phrases using the D minor pentatonic scale
  6. Creating and performing an improvised jazz piece

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