Harmonic progressions and bass lines
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Why this why now
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.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to find notes on the treble clef and play them on the keyboard
- Pupils can play a melody on the keyboard and move out of position
- Pupils can play the triads C, F, G and Am and understand how to find a triad
- Pupils know the rhythmic values minims, crotchets and quavers
- Pupils have performed chords and musical lines in the left hand
- Pupils understand that bass lines in the first instance work around the root of the chord
- Pupils have composed a chord sequence progression with bass line
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Why this why now
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.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to find notes on the treble clef and play them on the keyboard
- Pupils can play a melody on the keyboard and move out of position
- Pupils can play the triads C, F, G and Am and understand how to find a triad
- Pupils know the rhythmic values minims, crotchets and quavers
- Pupils have performed chords and musical lines in the left hand
- Pupils understand that bass lines in the first instance work around the root of the chord
- Pupils have composed a chord sequence progression with bass line
Harmonic progressions and bass lines
In this unit pupils extend their understanding of harmonic progressions, learning about ground bass and triadic harmony.
6 lessons in unit
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