Looping and remixing
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Looping and remixing
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Perform a looped body percussion rhythm; keeping in time with their group.
- Use loops to create a whole piece of music, ensuring that the different aspects of music work together.
- Play the first section of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ with accuracy.
- Choose a suitable fragment of music and be able to play it along to the backbeat.
- Perform a piece with some structure and two different loops.
Suggested prior learning
Adapting and transposing motifs (Theme: Romans)
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Body percussions loops
- To play a simple looped rhythm from notation.
Lesson 2: Mixing loops
- To explore how sound can be layered using loops.
Lesson 3: Learning the original
- To play a melody line accurately and fluently.
Lesson 4: Looping fragments
- To select a section of a tune and perform it as a loop.
Lesson 5: Remix
- To combine loops to create a remix.
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