Learning objective

  • To create a jazz motif.

Success criteria

  • I can identify the features of swing music.
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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Listen

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1: Lesson plan

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could be given an example motif without notation and then with notation after hearing the swung rhythm.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could record their motifs using standard notation using the Activity: Blank manuscript paper and the Activity: Example motif notation; could try some scat singing over the top of their motif.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: composing and playing a jazz motif

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Vocabulary definitions

  • straight quaver

    An even rhythm.

  • swung quaver

    An uneven rhythm.

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