Looping and remixing
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Looping and remixing
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Perform a looped body percussion rhythm; keeping in time with their group.
- Use loops to create a whole piece of music, ensuring that the different aspects of music work together.
- Play the first section of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ with accuracy.
- Choose a suitable fragment of music and be able to play it along to the backbeat.
- Perform a piece with some structure and two different loops.
Suggested prior learning
Adapting and transposing motifs (Theme: Romans)
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Body percussions loops
Lesson 2: Mixing loops
Lesson 3: Learning the original
Lesson 4: Looping fragments
Lesson 5: Remix
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