Singing
Vocal warm ups
Practise diction and tongue twisters for your vocal warm ups.
Singing in a group
Learn how to sing acapella as part of a group by looking at Kerry Andrew's 'No Place Like 成人快手'.
Developing your voice further
Learn about the different parts of your voice and how to develop your voice with singing exercises.
How do you warm up your voice?
Learn everything you need to know to warm up your voice when singing, including breathing exercises, facial muscles and facts about the larynx.
How do we develop our voices?
Develop your singing voice with these music exercises. You can improve your posture when singing and take a singing quiz!
How do we sing with expression?
How can you improve your singing? Feeling the emotion of a song and expressing it is a great way to start!
Playing and Performing
What is harmony?
Learn what a harmony is and how harmonies can turn a good song into a great song.
What is texture and timbre?
Nitin Sawhney takes the band on an adventure around the world to layer new sounds in their music.
Playing in different ways
Learn how to use the different elements of music to create expression, articulation and phrasing when playing music.
Exploring rhythms
Explore more about rhythms and learn about syncopation and how to use it.
What are scales?
Learn about the different types of scales in music and what an interval is.
Exploring tempo and dynamics
Discover more about the elements of music, tempo and dynamics, to help create a musical composition.
Exploring structure and form
Learn more about ternary form and rondo form and how to identify structure.
What is a musical performance?
Learn about what makes a great musical performance and why it's okay to make mistakes when playing music.
How do pulse and rhythm work?
Learn about the pulse in music and what makes a good rhythm.
How do pitch and melody work?
Learn about the dimensions of music and how pitch and melody work.
How do duration and tempo work?
Learn how duration and tempo work in music as Beethoven helps the band add variety to their song.
How does structure work?
Learn how structure and call and response work in music, as Elvis helps out the band with their song.
Listening
Ways of talking about music
Learn about different musical genres and how to talk about music.
How does music make you feel?
Discover how music makes you feel.
How do we talk about music?
Learn about different types of music and how to talk about music.
Exploring Mussorgsky
Learn facts about Modest Mussorgsky and explore 'A Night on the Bare Mountain'.
Exploring Beethoven
Learn everything you need to know about Beethoven and explore his famous 5th symphony.
Creating Music
Expressing yourself in song
Learn how to express yourself in song.
Using instruments in my music
Learn about the four main sections of an orchestra and what they sound like.
Composing music to match emotions
Why does music make us emotional? Find out more and how you can add emotion to your music.
Composing soundtracks
Learn how soundtracks are composed and how you can create your own.
Body percussion in composing
Learn how to beatbox and explore more about body percussion.
What is composition?
Learn how to compose music and how you can recreate sounds.
Composing with the sounds around us
Learn how to use found sounds and the sounds around us to compose a piece of music.
What inspires composition?
Learn what inspires composers to write compositions.
Composing rhythms
Learn about what a rhythm is and how you can write a rhythm.
Composing a melody
Learn how to write a melody and discover how different melodies can make us feel.
Composing music to tell a story
Learn who Vivaldi was and how you can write music to tell a story.
What is improvising?
Learn what improvising is and how you can improvise melody and rhythm.
Sounds and Symbols
Developing our music notation skills
Learn how to write time and key signatures and how tempo is written down.
A glossary of musical terms
Learn key terms used in music to describe the different dimensions used across composing and performing.
What is music notation?
Learn everything you need to know about music notation, including what Western notation is.
A list of musical terms
Learn key terms used in music to describe the different dimensions used in composing and performing.
Musical Journeys
Musical journeys: A brief history of Western European music
Explore Western European music throughout time.
Musical journeys: Music and dance
Learn about music and dances from around the world.
Musical journeys: Folk music
Learn about traditional folk music and explore Aaron Copland's Rodeo.
Musical Journeys: Music for the stage
Learn about the difference of music for the stage and screen and learn about musicals, ballets and different opera performances.
Musical journeys: Discovering the orchestra
Explore what an orchestra is and the different families in an orchestra with Hans Zimmer and Leonard Bernstein.
Musical journeys: Instruments of the world
Learn about different musical instruments from all over the world.
Musical journeys: Jazz and blues music
Learn about jazz and blues music.
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