This Music video introduces teachers to the South America unit, where pupils will learn to sing, play untuned and tuned percussion, and improvise within the salsa-inspired piece Vamos Let’s Go. The first lesson focuses on learning the vocal parts through call and response and practising the untuned percussion rhythms of clave, cowbell, shaker, and guiro.

This Music video introduces teachers to the process of supporting pupils in creating and notating their own salsa melodies. Building on prior learning about letter names on the stave and salsa rhythms, pupils use an activity sheet with pre-written rhythms and a limited set of pitches (D, E, F, G, A) to compose short melodies.

This Music video introduces teachers to a consolidation lesson at the midpoint of the instrumental scheme. Pupils revisit all the music studied so far, performing pieces from previous topics and recalling contextual knowledge about each style.

This Music video introduces teachers to the concept of the octave and how to help pupils recognise, write, and perform it. Pupils will learn that an octave is the eight-note distance between two notes of the same name, where the upper note vibrates at double the frequency of the lower.

This Music video introduces teachers to exploring cyclic patterns in lesson four of the Indonesia topic. Pupils will recap the key features of Gamelan music, including the use of the Slendro scale, octave variation, note length, and repeating cyclical structures, before creating their own eight-note melodies.

This Music video introduces teachers to exploring the concept of timbre and applying it to the Gamelan-inspired piece, Blue Sky. Pupils will investigate the sounds of untuned percussion instruments, learn how timbre creates contrast with tuned percussion, and describe the qualities of different sounds before adding them into their class performance.

This Music video introduces teachers to combining singing and rhythmic ostinato patterns as part of the South Africa unit. Pupils will warm up with call and response gumboot rhythms and swooping vocal sounds before focusing on good singing technique.

This Music video introduces teachers to how pitch is represented on the staff notation stave. It explains how notes are positioned on lines and in spaces, introduces treble and bass clefs, and demonstrates how ledger lines extend the stave for higher or lower pitches.