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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Big band
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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
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)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Tuff tray or other flat clean surface
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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.)
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- 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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