Unit 2: Caribbean (Instrumental lessons)

Learning about the history and features of calypso music, performing a calypso-style song with voices and tuned percussion in multiple parts and playing from staff notation. 

Lessons

free lesson icon

Lesson 1: What is calypso?

  • To understand the main features of calypso music.

Lesson 2: What’s the story?

  • To improvise a vocal part in the style of a calypso.

Lesson 3: Instrumental calypso

  • To understand how and why percussion instruments can be used in calypso music.

Lesson 4: Calypso quavers

  • To recognise and perform quavers from staff notation.

Lesson 5: Pentatonic calypso

  • To improvise in a calypso style using a pentatonic scale.

Key skills

Year 3

  • Discussing the stylistic
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Key knowledge

To know:

  • The key features
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Key vocabulary

calypso

griot

Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Related content

Padlock
Music

Knowledge organiser – Music KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean’.

Padlock
Music

Vocabulary display – Music KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit ‘KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean’.

Subject resources

Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

For copyright reasons, you may not screenshot this page.
Press esc to exit