Year 10 cover work for week beginning 14 October 2019

Please complete all other listening tasks on music first as set by me on this blog last week.
Please make sure your Reggae composition IS FULLY COMPLETED. Ask yourself,
1.does it have a typical Reggae melody (peace, love, brotherhood)
2. does it have a typical Reggae rhythm (bongos intro, with the skank in the guitar- make sure to do lots of listening to support your own composition)
3. does it have a typical Reggae structure (intro, chorus, verse, chorus, outro)
4. does it have typical Reggae instruments (vocals, backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, bongos)
5. Does it have typical Reggae harmonies (simple chord sequences).
6. Does it have typical Reggae accompaniment (listen to specific pieces and make sure each instrument plays a particular role).
7. Did you use reverb on your vocals/melody lone that you either recorded in live or played in. Add it with effects.

8. Does your piece sound like a REGGAE SONG? Does it make sense?  Did you play in time (oh man... please don't submit anything that wasn't played in to the click track....)

After spending the double on Tuesday 15 October making sure all the questions above are answered YES, then make sure you listen to a partners work and give them feedback according to the requirements above.

Year 9 Cover work week beginning 14 October

Complete all listening and Sibelius tasks set, ready for assessment over half term.

New task: Start a new Sibelius piece. Piano (Treble and bass clef)

- Organise the following chords into a chord sequence of your choice. Create a 16 bar piece.
C (CEG), F (FAC), G(GBD) Am (ACE).
- Extension: Play the chords and listen if you can hear a melody that makes sense.  Try and create your own melody that fits over the chords.
HINT: If the chord is CEG (C chord), try and use C E and G a lot in your melody. Or if you are using F chord, use F A and C a lot etc.
You can use other notes but just use them as passing notes.


Straight to stretch: Create your piece in G major (thereby using chords G, C , D and e minor.

Here are some hints to find the chords.

Here are some useful Sibelius shortcuts