Year 10 - Music
Developing a video game theme
Extending understanding in film music: video game music
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to develop a video game theme using pulse and rhythm.
Key Notes
- It is important that a video game theme song captures the atmosphere of the game.
- For a high-energy racing game, the theme song should create a feeling of excitement and energy.
- We can use fast, rhythmic percussion layers to add excitement.
- We can also create an energetic driving bass line to add to this energy, including using chord notes and passing notes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- theme song: a piece of music that introduces a film or game and captures its overall atmosphere
- chord tone: a note that is included in the chord
- passing note: a note that links two chord tones by step
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Complex music sounds most exciting and energetic.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
It is important that a video game theme song captures the atmosphere of the game. For a high-energy racing game, the theme song should create a feeling of excitement and energy.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'theme song'
a piece of music that introduces a film or game and captures its overall atmosphere.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Complex music sounds most exciting and energetic. Correction: Not necessarily - sometimes the most energetic music is that which emphasises the pulse and uses driving rhythms. Sometimes if music is too complex, with many busy layers of sound, it can sound chaotic and messy rather than energetic.
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