This Music video introduces teachers to the key features of North American Minimalism, helping pupils to recognise repeating patterns, layered textures, interlocking rhythms, and simple harmonies when listening to music. It guides you through using call-and-response singing to teach the overlapping vocal parts in the piece Interlocking Patterns, giving pupils a first-hand experience of minimalist techniques.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Music – notes. It supports teachers in building pupils’ listening and performance skills, ensuring they can identify core features of the style and sing confidently in parts, laying the groundwork for future lessons on composers like Philip Glass.

Music, KS2 Whole-class instrumental lessons, Instrumental lessons, Unit 6: North America (Instrumental lessons), Lesson 1: Minimalism