Key Topics

What will ALL students learn?

What will the most able students learn?

Project 1

Learning to use Garageband – an introduction to music technology

The basic functions of Garageband, creating their own sample based composition.

Begin to input their own piano pieces and edit their music.

Project 2

Improving keyboard skills and singing

Right hand keyboard playing, reading simple notation. Singing in harmony.

Play with two hands, sing in small groups or solo.

Project 3

‘The Passenger’  - Iggy Pop – whole class

Learn to play as a group and create new versions of Iggy Pop’s The Passenger.

Play on their own instruments or chose to learn Guitar/Bass.

Project 4

The Blues

To perform Duke Ellington’s C-Jam Blues which includes Improvising, playing chords and a walking bass line.

Play the Guitar/Bass, use two hands on the keyboard (chords in the right and walking bass in the left)