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Year 6 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: creating melodic variations based on a theme
- Composing a further variation to a theme Study Guide
- Composing a melodic variation to a theme Study Guide
- Composing a rhythmic variation to a theme Study Guide
- Learning a musical theme Study Guide
- Practising and performing composed variations on a theme Study Guide
- Theme and variation as a musical structure Study Guide
Compose and create: nature documentary inspired film scores
Compose and rehearse: improvising with the minor pentatonic scale
- Creating and performing an improvised jazz piece Study Guide
- Improvisation and the minor pentatonic scale Study Guide
- Improvising a phrase using the D minor pentatonic scale Study Guide
- Improvising longer phrases using the D minor pentatonic scale Study Guide
- Playing a minor pentatonic jazz melody Study Guide
- Playing the D minor pentatonic scale Study Guide
Playing together: arranging and rehearsing a fusion performance
- Fusing and layering rhythmic patterns Study Guide
- Fusing together and arranging musical ideas Study Guide
- Fusion and the evolution of musical styles Study Guide
- Melody in fusion music Study Guide
- Performing, listening and responding to each other Study Guide
- Practising repetitive cells for a fusion performance Study Guide
Sing, play, perform: accompanying songs with polyrhythms
Singing for performance: conveying emotion and character through performance
- Articulation and vocal quality when singing Study Guide
- Balancing harmony lines in songs Study Guide
- Characterful singing Study Guide
- Controlling our voice to convey the feeling of a song Study Guide
- Effective rehearsal for a singing performance Study Guide
- Reflecting on a successful performance Study Guide
Singing together: music that comments on social change
- Civil rights songs and the power of repetition Study Guide
- Sharing emotion through song Study Guide
- Sharing important issues through music and song Study Guide
- Singing for the change we want to see in the world Study Guide
- The differences of rap and beat poetry Study Guide
- The importance and power of songs from the past Study Guide