The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Harry Potter Theme

Use the slideshow and the clip from youtube to complete the activities.

Sound Effects in Movies - FOLEY

Foley artists make many of the movie sound effects you hear in your favorite films. Here’s a look at how they do it. Gary Hecker (Django Unchained, Hancock, 300), Dawn Lunsford (Whiplash, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, Transformers: Age of Extinction) and Alicia Stevenson (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, X-Men, Transformers: Age of Extinction) take us through their post-production process.

Top Gun Anthem

Soundation COMPOSITION

Go check out SOUNDATION online and create your own unique account using your school email address and password.

Then complete the tasks shown here and write the answers in your workbooks.

Soundation.com composition task. by timbilliards timbilliards

Suprise Symphony

Follow along the score and recording for the first section of the piece. What do you notice about the use of DYNAMICS in this song???

What do you think the little dots above the notes means for the Player?

The BASIC BEAT

The Basic Beat

The basic beat is a rhythm that has become popular in music over the last 100 years. Originally it comes from marching music where the BASS DRUM is played on each left foot, every 1st and 3rd beat of the music. The snare drum is played on the 2nd and 4th beat, this is called the BACK BEAT.

To make the beat more interesting modern music adds bass drum beats to the pattern to create variations. These variations add interest to the sections of the music.

Graphic Notation Composition.

This task has you creating a piece of music that will tell some kind of story.

You could give us the impression of:

• a car chase
• A journey through time
• Your trip to school
• a walk around the school.

Here is an example of a composition by students at another school. If you read the description it tells you what they were supposed to achieve in their composition.





Download a copy of the scaffold below and use it to help you create your own composition.

Graphic Notation

Year 10 written task Wednesday

Watch this video and complete the essay scaffold plan you have been provided.

Question: "Learning music at school is a waste of time."

Consider that students from kindy through to year 12 study music at some point.

Think about where you will be in contact with music in your life.

Davy Jones Locker

Year 7 Music writing stuff.

In class today we played the djembe drums demonstrating a few different musical ideas.

1. Ostinato: playing a rhythm that is repeated to create a pattern.
2. Polyrhythm: When many different rhythms are layered on top of each other at the same time.
3. Improvisation: Making up a new rhythm on the spot! Composing as you go along.

By using our first names we can hear the rhythms from speech and translate them into musical rhythms on the drum. 

The concept DURATION covers when and how long sounds are played for so these terms are part of the musical concept DURATION. For more information on duration and rhythms visit this site.

Duration Mind Map

Power Chords and Rock Guitar

Scales and Modes on Guitar.

For the Aeolian mode you can improvise a melody over the chords:

||: Am / / / | Am / / / | E / / / | E / / / :||


To improvise over the Major scale you can use the chords:

||: C / / / | / / / / | FMaj7 / / / | / / / / :||

You could create your own chord progression using any of the above chords then improvise a melody using any of the notes from the Aeolian mode in A, or Major scale in C.

When September Ends

rhythm Revision

Rhythm flashcards in 4 from Erin Contrady