Spring 1 Term Scheme and Activities 

Rhythmic Patterns Creating and Performing. 

• Create simple rhythmic patterns and record them using notation...

  • By ear...listening

  • By pictures

  • By standard rhythm notation

  • By ukulele tab notation

• To improve as singers/ ukulele players by learning to read songs with ukulele chords...

  • "Clementine"

  • "How I Lang to go to Sea"

  • "John Brown's Body" 

  • "Sometimes"

• Learn/ get better at more chords...

  • Am

  • C7

  • G9

  • G7

  • Am7

• Create music and notate it independently and begin to combine these simple compositions together as a group.

  • A4 composition grid

• Get better at playing melodies.

  • "Tab Time 1"

  • "Tab Time 2"

National Curriculum Statements;

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• …compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations (TAB)
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians (BBC 10 Pieces)
• develop an understanding of the history of music (BBC 10 Pieces)