Minor, major and developing keyboard skills
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Why this why now
Pupils develop keyboard technique, becoming more fluent in moving out of position, playing the black keys, and playing longer, more complex melodic lines and broken chords. They develop their ability to perform expressively in more advanced keyboard music, including using rubato. They explore melodic techniques such as sequence and anacrusis and the importance of phrase structure. They start to understand the importanace of the third in defining keys and how scales work. They develop their own creative ideas using other music as inspiration, learning more about what makes a piece successful.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have experience changing hand position fluently
- Pupils know how to find natural and sharp notes on the treble clef and play them on the keyboard
- Pupils have experience play a melody with hand position changes kept in time
- Pupils understand the term chord and can play triads
- Pupils know the rhythmic values minims, crotchets and quavers and that they can be dotted
- Pupils know that melodies can be major or minor and how this sounds
- Pupils know the music is built in phrases
- Pupils have experience keeping time and shaping phrases
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils develop keyboard technique, becoming more fluent in moving out of position, playing the black keys, and playing longer, more complex melodic lines and broken chords. They develop their ability to perform expressively in more advanced keyboard music, including using rubato. They explore melodic techniques such as sequence and anacrusis and the importance of phrase structure. They start to understand the importanace of the third in defining keys and how scales work. They develop their own creative ideas using other music as inspiration, learning more about what makes a piece successful.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have experience changing hand position fluently
- Pupils know how to find natural and sharp notes on the treble clef and play them on the keyboard
- Pupils have experience play a melody with hand position changes kept in time
- Pupils understand the term chord and can play triads
- Pupils know the rhythmic values minims, crotchets and quavers and that they can be dotted
- Pupils know that melodies can be major or minor and how this sounds
- Pupils know the music is built in phrases
- Pupils have experience keeping time and shaping phrases
Minor, major and developing keyboard skills
This unit introduces major and minor scales and explores what makes music distinctive and memorable. Pupils develop keyboard technique and rehearsal strateiges, learning more complex melodic lines with accidentals and varied articulation.
6 lessons in unit
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