Wednesday, 30 March 2016

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly



Play along with the music for this piece on your guitar or piano.

You can also download the picture of the guitar melody...



Melody vs Harmony -

Check out this cool video that teaches you about melodic contour. 

http://study.com/academy/lesson/melody-vs-harmony-definitions-and-examples.html


YEAR 10Music Listening Scaffold sheet

Hey Guys n Girls,

You can download a PDF of the listening scaffold that you can type into to practice listening for your AURAL exam next week.

Check it out HERE.

Remember to only listen to a short section of a song (1 minute) and listen to it a few times over.

How to prepare for an aural exam.

Monday, 21 March 2016

Year 10 Listening Scaffold Sheet


Use the following worksheet to help you scaffold your answer to the questions at the end of the sheet. 

The first thing you need to do when hearing the musical example is to complete the table below. 

The basic idea is WHEN, WHO, WHAT of the example. Use as many details as you can to complete the Observations section.

If you click on the picture you can download and print as many as you need to practise your listening skills. To find questions you might like to look at some past HSC music 1 exams to see what types of questions are asked in this type of exam.

Here are some questions you could try...


  • How are the concepts of pitch and duration explored in this excerpt? 
  • Describe how musical interest is created in this excerpt.
  • Describe how unity and contrast have been achieved in this excerpt. 

Sunday, 20 March 2016

The Concepts of Music



Use 'f' to expand the node.
Use 'esc' to centre the map again.

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Year 7 Guitar Test

Hi Guys n Gurls,

For your guitar assessment you can perform one of the following pieces.

Davy Jones Locker



















Smoke on the water.











Or a piece that uses chords like Hound Dog.



Good luck!

Mr B.