Tag: understanding

• Tune of the Week

  

  To develop confident musical understanding, students must be constantly listening to and exploring music in a range of genres and contexts. As they begin, they need support in how they focus on music when they listen, and encouragement that ‘it’s going to be ok’, especially when approaching music in a style they’ve never heard before.…

  davelowemusiceducation

  3rd Mar 2019

  Curriculum Design

  confidence, exam, gcse, listening, music, revision, terminology, tune of the week, understanding

• 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