Big band

Learning about what makes a musical instrument and how instruments are grouped, following a beat using untuned instruments and performing a song to a small audience.

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Lesson 1: What makes an instrument?

Lesson 2: Introduction to orchestra

Lesson 3: Follow the beat

Lesson 4: Tuned and untuned instruments

Lesson 5: Big band performance

Key skills

  • Listening appropriately to someone
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Key knowledge

  • To know that an
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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)

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  • Tuff tray or other flat clean surface
  • Recyclable materials

  • Tuned instruments (such as: xylophone, glockenspiel, piano, keyboard, tubular bells etc.)
  • Untuned instruments (such as: a small drum, tambourine, drums, castanets, maracas, claves, guiro, sleigh bells, triangle, cymbals etc.)
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Music: Progression of skills and knowledge

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