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Year 9

Understanding samba

4 lessons

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  • Composing and improvising
  • DAW
  • Drum grooves
  • Harmony
  • Improvisation
  • Rhythm

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This unit introduces pupils to Samba as a type of Brazilian dance and music, including batucada. They learn the context of the style and about the instruments, ensembles and features of the music, including polyrhythm and develop a Samba-style composition.

Pupils develop their composition skills through composing with extended chords and bass lines, extending their understanding of harmony. They develop their improvisation skills through learning extended strategies for successful improvisation within a more complex melodic structure and scales and they continue to develop their ability to use a DAW creatively and bring different musical elements together (melody, harmony and rhythm) to show their understanding of how music works.

  1. Polyrhythm in batucada
  2. Extended chords in Brazilian songs
  3. Developing a bass line in a Brazilian song
  4. Improvising around a melody
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