YEAR 77-11

– 9 HISTORY
Music
GCSE Music/ Modern
Extra curricular Drumming:
activities/ The Drum Kit
Peripatetic
lessons

Digital Audio
Workstation: Studio Digital
Engineering, Mixing Technology:
& Production Electronic Dance
Music & Media 2:
Music
Music in Film
World Music 2:
Jazz & Blues

YEAR 9

Classical Music:
Orchestra & Music & Media 1:
Experimental Piano Music in
Music Computer Games

Reggae: Chords &

YEAR 8
Accompaniment -
World Music 1: Ukulele and Voice
Percussion &
Rhythm

Hip-Hop: Introduction to the

Sampling, Elements of Music &
Looping & Ableton Live
Beat-Making

YEAR 7

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YEAR 7 MUSIC
HISTORY
Year 8
Music Chords &
Introduction to
Ensemble Accompaniment 1:
Bob Marley - Three Reggae &
Performance: Chords Ukelele Chords
& Accompaniment Little Birds

Reggae: Chords &

Accompaniment -
Chords & Accompaniment 2: Ukulele and
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds Voice
Ensemble
Performance:
Introduction to Percussion
Percussion: Note African Drumming:
Duration & Improvisation
Rhythm

World Music 1:
Percussion &
Rhythm

Indian
Drumming: Samba Drumming:
Poly-Rhythms Call & response
Digital Audio
Workstation 2: Virtual
Instruments & MIDI Chords & Bassline 2: Dr. Dre – Still Dre

Digital Audio
Workstation 1: Looping, Chords & Bassline
Sampling & Beat-Making 1: Dr. Dre – Still Dre

Song Introduction to
Structure Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop:
Sampling,
Looping &
Beat-Making

Melodies
Sampling & Beat-
Making

Chords: Triads
Notes, Pitch &
& Progressions
Scales

Introduction to
the Elements of START
Music & Ableton
Live
Basslines & Rhythms
Beats, Bars &
Tempo

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HISTORY
Year 9
Improvisation:
Music Blues & The
12 Bar Blues 1: Walking Bass
Pentatonic
Minor Scale
12 Bar Blues 1:
Chords

Introduction
to Jazz & Blues Lyrics: Call
Blues & Response

Experimental
Composition World Music
2: Jazz &
Blues

Kandinsky:
Minimalism in Hearing Shapes & Introduction to
Music Seeing Sounds Experimental
Music

Musique Experimental
Concréte The Piano 1: Music
Beethoven’s
The Orchestra 1: The Orchestra 2: “Ode to Joy” &
Sonority &Timbre Pitch & Dynamics Beethoven’s
“Moonlight
Sonata”

Classical
Music:
Orchestra &
Piano
The Choir:
Harmony & The Piano 2:
Soundtrack Texture
Composition Bach’s
Introduction to “Minuet in G”
Computer Game
Music: 8-Bit & 16-Bit

Music & Media

1: Music in
Computer
Games
Cues & Motifs 2:
Character Actions & Game Themes &
Event Cues Cues & Motifs 1:
Soundtracks: Retro vs
Character Motifs
Digital

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YEAR 98 MUSIC
HISTORY
Introduction to
Multitrack & the Recording
Mixing 2: Adding Studio
GCSE
FX – Reverb,
Music, extra
Delay & EQ
curricular,
peripatetic
lessons

Digital Audio
Workstation:
Multitrack & Mixing 1: Studio Engineering,
Multitrack & Importing & Editing Mixing &
Mixing 3: Production
Balancing, Drumming
Panning & Techniques: Limb
Elements of Automation Interdependence & Electronic Drum Kit Sampling
the Drum Co-ordination
Kit

Drum
Patterns &
Forms of
Notation EDM 1:
Drum
EDM Composition
Machines
Modern
Drumming:
The Drum Kit

EDM 2:
Synthesizers

Introduction to
Electronic Sound:
Short Film Score The Oscillator &
Composition Synthesis
Digital
Technology:
Electronic
Dance Music

DAW & MIDI

Controllers
Musical Narrative
2: Creating Relief
& Light-
Heartedness Leitmotifs &
Character Traits 1

Music &
Media 2:
Music in Film

Musical Narrative 1: Leitmotifs & Character

Creating Tension & Traits 2
Suspense

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