Unit 5: India (Instrumental lessons)
Learning and understanding the history and key features of Bollywood films, how ambient sounds can be used to enhance a film score, practising staff notation and performing a film sequence using instruments and movement.
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Unit 5: India (Instrumental lessons)
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recall some facts about Bollywood music and complete some of the Bollywood dance moves, as shown in the dance tutorial video.
- Suggest and perform vocal, body percussion and untuned percussion sounds to represent aspects of an Indian city.
- Name the pitches of most of the notes, and the duration of all of the notes.
- Spot the performance markings on the sheet music and play accordingly.
- Describe harmony in simple terms and play a harmony part, listening to other performers to help them with timing.
- Play the lead part as this has been practised the most.
From May 2025, lessons within this unit will be updated to include a Recap and recall section and Kapow’s Presentation mode feature.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: Indonesia (Instrumental lessons)
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Introduction to Bollywood
To understand the history and key features of Bollywood films
Lesson 2: Cityscape
To understand how ambient sounds can be used to enhance a film score
Lesson 3: Indian fantasy
To identify performance markings on staff notation and apply these to my performance
Lesson 4: Harmony
To understand the concept of harmony
Lesson 5: Film sequence
To perform a film sequence using instruments and movement
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