Tag: melody

• What I learned from… my Year 9s this week about ‘one extra step’ in learning to write a melody

  

  Melody is one of the aspects of music that is so familiar to our students, but from the coursework I see, it also causes the greatest problems in GCSE composition.

  davelowemusiceducation

  21st Jan 2023

  Classroom strategies, What I learned from…

  app, composition, education, iPad, KS3, melody, mobile, music, real-world, sibelius, strategy, 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