Performing
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Live Sequencer, List Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, List Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Hilarious Youtube hit of miming to Back Street Boys hit "I want it that way". Could be used at KS2/3 to illustrate part singing in pop music or to provoke discussion about the influence of western pop music across the world and use of internet sites such as youtube to promote and influence music. Perhaps there is value in this 'performance' whilst it is funny, it also well rehearsed.
Official classification: Rehearsing, Performing, 2000s, Video, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Pop, Curriculum support
Joanna Mangona and her class of mixed woodwind students pack their instruments away whilst singing the end of lesson song, "Goodbye".
The children really like this one because of the funny voices they can use.
Official classification: Improvising, Performing, Video, Mixed Woodwind
Tags: inspira
Joanna Mangona and her class of mixed woodwind students use two notes to play "Hands, feet heart" and do some vocal improvisation
Official classification: Improvising, Performing, Video, Mixed Woodwind
Tags: inspira
Joanna Mangona and her class of mixed woodwind students perform the Christmas song "Ho, ho, ho". It's got lots of fun elements; dance, a rap, instrumental parts and a solo.
Official classification: Improvising, Performing, Christmas, Video, Mixed Woodwind
Tags: inspira
Joanna Mangona and her class of mixed woodwind students show how to find and keep the musical pulse using the inspira song "Hey, You!"
Official classification: Improvising, Performing, Video, Mixed Woodwind
Tags: inspira
There is a grid layout of 13 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended textures to a metronome beat at 95 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 95 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 13 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free drum patterns to a 95 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is a grid layout of 8 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Some pads are set so that the sample always decays naturally, while others gate the sound immediately on release. An edit panel is available to change this behaviour, or to allow free volume and pan on any sample pad. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended dubstep textures to a metronome beat at 140 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 140 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 8 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free dubstep drum patterns to a 140 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is a grid layout of 9 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Some pads are set so that the sample always decays naturally, while others gate the sound immediately on release. An edit panel is available to change this behaviour, or to allow free volume and pan on any sample pad. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended electro textures to a metronome beat at 126 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 126 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 9 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free electro drum patterns to a 126 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There are 2 sample pads (kick and clap). Pupils hear a rhythm pattern and then try to play it on the pads, recording what they do so that they can later evaluate their efforts. There are 3 patterns to copy, increasing in complexity.
Curriculum area: Performing, aural copying
Main focus: Playing beats made from 2 sounds, as heard aurally
Possible Learning Outcomes: Improved skill at reproducing 2-layer beat riffs
Official classification: Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is just one sample pad (kick). Pupils hear some examples of dubstep-style kick patterns and then explore recording their own kick rhythms in time to a hats and snare backing, building up in layers if they wish.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Inventing kick patterns to go with a given dubstep-style backing
Possible Learning Outcomes: Improved skill at devising/performing more intricate kick rhythms
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
Multi-layered rhythmic piece demonstrating the use of 'signals' by 5 primary school pupils for KS2 Cyclic Patterns module (lesson 3).
The pupil on on the far RHS keeps the pulse with the bells whilst the three pupils in the middle play their individual rhythmic patterns, each coming in after a 'signal' from the djembe player on far LHS.
Official classification: Djembe, Composing, Arranging, Performing, Video, Curriculum support, Bell