Month: Jan 2019

• Competition Time: iPad Music 2019

  

  The purpose of this competition is to encourage people of all ages to get involved in music creation. Portable technology now enables us to create our music anywhere and at anytime. Many aspects of life inspire creativity. When each moment arrives, we can now create without delay.

  davelowemusiceducation

  26th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  amazing, competition, composition, education, gcse, industry, iPad, music, musicforall, musician, production, technology

• Harmony – The Hot Chocolate for Your Marshmallows

  

  Following on from ‘Detox Melody’, the natural next move was to ‘Detox Harmony’. Harmony is the most complex musical element for our students to understand. Mostly problems occur when they don’t consider the impact of an additional part, which naturally they don’t. When beginning to compose, they layer sounds or melodies together and are transfixed […]

  davelowemusiceducation

  17th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  amazing, aqa, gcse, harmony, melody, music, production, real-world, technology, understanding

• A Practical Model to Grow Confidence in Music for Young People Aged 11-16

  

  Over the last 8 years in my current school, I’ve been continually looking for ways to improve the experience of my music students. Every one of them is unique, no matter ability, demographic or experience of life. A one-size-fits-all model would have failed within minutes so I’ve developed a flexible, customisable model for every individual […]

  davelowemusiceducation

  13th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  amazing, composition, education, experience, gcse, high school, industry, iPad, KS3, model, music, musician, performance, purpose, real-world, strategy, student, technique, technology

• Year 8 “Production” Launched

  

  This first week of 2019 has seen the launch of our exciting new “Production” unit in KS3 music at Manor. The unit gives students the opportunity to explore the type of work they might do on our new GCSE Music Production Via Technology Pathway. It could also be the first step of development towards a […]

  davelowemusiceducation

  12th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  aqa, curriculum, GarageBand, gcse, high school, industry, iPad, KS3, music, production, technology

• Melody Detox – updated

  

  For this first week back of the new year, I decided to focus on melody with all my year 9 and 10 students. For year 9 this was their first experience of writing melodies with this amount of depth of thought, and a timely reminder for year 10 who are beginning to compose longer works. […]

  davelowemusiceducation

  12th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

• A Wall of 2 Sides – increasing students’ learning ambition in Music

  

  One wall in the Manor music department is more important than any other. Side A – The Wall of Fame The Wall of Fame is a visual display to celebrate the achievements and progress of Music students choosing to study for graded exams. Students have a choice as to whether or not they would like […]

  davelowemusiceducation

  2nd Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  abrsm, ambition, education, exams, grade, instrument, music, rock school, trinity, voice