Lesson 3: Pitch and tempo: Faster than a speeding bullet

Pupils develop their superhero theme tunes by adding tempo changes to make them sound more exciting.

Before the lesson

Learning objective

  • To understand the concept of tempo

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  •  play tuned and untuned instruments musically
  • listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded
    music
  •  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions
    of music’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: You can clap along, gradually increasing the speed of your clap so they can match their music to your clap.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be grouped together, and challenged to slow down gradually (rallentando) after they have got up to their top speed.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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