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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain what ragtime music is.
- Play on the ‘off beat’ and sing a syncopated rhythm.
- Play a call and then improvise a response.
- Improvise or compose a scat singing performance with sounds and words.
- Compose and play a jazz motif fluently, using swung quavers.
- Play a swung rhythm using a tuned percussion instrument.
Suggested prior learning
Pentatonic melodies and composition (Theme: Chinese New Year)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Ragtime
Lesson 2: Traditional jazz
Lesson 3: Scat singing
Lesson 4: Jazz motifs
Lesson 5: Swung rhythms
Key skills
- Discussing the stylistic features
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Key knowledge
- To understand that ‘syncopation’
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Key vocabulary
call and response
improvisation
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Resources
Unit resources
Music
Knowledge organiser – Music Year 3: Jazz
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Jazz.
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Vocabulary display: Jazz
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Jazz.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography
Learning about other countries and cultures
Suggested next steps
Traditional instruments and improvisation (Theme: India)
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