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Year 3 Music Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Compose and Create: major pentatonic melodies
- Composing a major pentatonic melody Study Guide
- Improvising a major pentatonic melody Study Guide
- Notating a dotted rhythm major pentatonic melody Study Guide
- Playing a dotted rhythm major pentatonic melody Study Guide
- Singing and identifying the major pentatonic scale Study Guide
- Singing major pentatonic folk songs Study Guide
Compose and Create: notating and performing using rhythm grids
Playing together: building texture with melody, drone and ostinato
- Drone accompaniments to songs Study Guide
- Identifying different layers of accompaniment within a piece of music Study Guide
- Layering simple accompaniments to create a thicker texture Study Guide
- Melodic ostinato accompaniments to songs Study Guide
- Playing a melodic ostinato and singing simultaneously Study Guide
- Rehearsing songs with layers of instrumental accompaniments Study Guide
Singing for performance: holding a second part in rounds and partner songs
Singing together: how songs are used in communities
Start with playing: adding percussive layers to build texture in our songs
- Adding simple instrumental parts to songs and chants Study Guide
- Building texture with a rhythmic ostinato Study Guide
- Chanting and singing in time Study Guide
- Playing and singing simultaneously Study Guide
- Rehearsing layers of unpitched accompaniments under a chant Study Guide
- Rehearsing layers of unpitched accompaniments under a song Study Guide