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Year 9

Harmonic progressions and bass lines

6 lessons

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  • Expressive elements
  • Instrumental fluency
  • Rhythm

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In this unit pupils extend their understanding of harmonic progressions, learning about ground bass and triadic harmony.

Pupils extend their keyboard skills, focussing on developing the left hand and left hand accompaniment patterns. They learn how to identify notes in the bass clef through performance. They further develop their understanding of harmony, including learning about triadic harmony, how to build melodies and musical ideas with chordal harmony as a starting point, passing notes and the impact of the tonic and dominant notes of the scale. They continue to learn about how they can develop their musical ideas.

  1. Understanding bass clef
  2. Understanding ground bass
  3. Adding triadic harmony to ground bass
  4. Understanding arpeggios and Alberti bass
  5. Adding rhythmic variation to ground bass
  6. Adding triadic melody to ground bass
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