South and West Africa

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Sing using the correct pronunciation and with increasing confidence.
  • Play a chord with two notes, remaining in time.
  • Maintain their part in a performance with accuracy.
  • Play the more complicated rhythms in time and with rests.
  • Create an eight beat break and play this in the correct place.

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Blues

 

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Shosholoza a cappella

  • To sing a traditional African song unaccompanied.
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Lesson 2: Playing Shosholoza

  • To use tuned percussion to play a chord progression.
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Lesson 3: The Shosholoza show

  • To use vocals or tuned percussion to perform a piece of music as an ensemble.
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Lesson 4: Drumming away to Africa

  • To play call and response rhythms using percussion instruments.
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Lesson 5: Eight-beat breaks

  • To create an eight-beat break to play within a performance.
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  • Recognising and confidently discussing

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  • To know that songs

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