Understanding samba
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Why this why now
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.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils are confident recording in and quantising rhythmic parts in a DAW
- Pupils can read basic rhythms and understand what a syncopated rhythm is
- Pupils understand the concept of a triad chord and can work them out from the root note
- Pupils know that a bass line is based on the root note of each chord
- Pupils have been introduced to the term syncopation and have performed and composed syncopated patterns
- Pupils are worked with stave notation and can work out pitches on a stave
Threads
Why this why now
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.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils are confident recording in and quantising rhythmic parts in a DAW
- Pupils can read basic rhythms and understand what a syncopated rhythm is
- Pupils understand the concept of a triad chord and can work them out from the root note
- Pupils know that a bass line is based on the root note of each chord
- Pupils have been introduced to the term syncopation and have performed and composed syncopated patterns
- Pupils are worked with stave notation and can work out pitches on a stave
Understanding samba
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.
4 lessons in unit
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