Lesson 2: Traditional jazz

Learning about traditional jazz, pupils improvise a call and response in time with the music

Before the lesson

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Learning objective

  • To improvise a call and response

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related
    dimensions of music
  • use and understand staff and other musical notations’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should play the response part and keep it simple. When they are learning the whole tune, they can just play the first two lines if they are struggling.

 

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Should work alone and then play the response as well as the tune. If possible, get them to play the response in a different octave to their original tune.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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